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Anders Breivik is declared sane. The judge sentences him to 21 years

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for killing 77 people in attacks in Norway. Breivik smiled as the judge

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read the verdict. Boy In a statement he said he regretted not

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killing more. TRANSLATION: I wish to apologise to

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all militant nationalists in Europe but it was not able to kill more

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people. Those who survived the shooting at a youth camp on Utoeya

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island say they're glad the trial is now over. I am very pleased and

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relieved that the decision that was one I agree with and feel was the

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right one. Also on tonight's programme:

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Pictures of Prince Harry naked in a Las Vegas hotel are published by

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the Sun. The press watchdog says it's had more than 850 complaints

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from the public. New figures show the economy is

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shrinking but it's not as bad as was first thought.

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Murder in downtown Manhattan. Two die. At least ten are injured in a

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shooting outside the Empire State Building.

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And the US Anti-Doping Agency says it's stripped cycling's Lance

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Armstrong of his Tour de France titles and issued a lifetime ban

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Coming up in a sports day, cannot leads make it third time lucky in

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the Challenge Cup final? They face Good evening. Welcome to the BBC

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News at Six. Anders Breivik, the right wing extremist who murdered

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77 people in Norway last summer, has been given the country's

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maximum sentence of 21 years. But that can be extended if he's still

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deemed to be a threat to society. Breivik said he did not recognise

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the court, would not appeal the verdict and apologised for not

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killing more. During the trial, he had admitted carrying out a car

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bombing in the capital Oslo and going on a shooting rampage on

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Utoeya island. The youngest victim was 14. Our Correspondent, James

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The events of a single day in July last year, the 22nd, have been

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described by the Prime Minister of Norway as a nightmare beyond

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comprehension. Well, today, this trial tied to make some sense of

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the actions of a single gunman acting entirely alone.

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Anders Breivik says he killed to destroy a liberal multicultural

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Norway. Today and Norwegian court demonstrated his failure to achieve

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that goal. Briefly, Breivik attended a fascist salute before

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hearing the verdict of five judges. Guilty of mass murder and terrorism

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and not insane. TRANSLATION: Anders Breivik, born

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in 1979, his sentence to 21 years and a minimum period of 10 years.

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There was a smile, on his face. For him, being judged sane have somehow

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reinforces his self-image as a political prisoner. But for most of

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the bereaved and survivors I spoke to, it was the right judgment.

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Breivik did not have the excuse of insanity. That is exactly what we

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hoped for. Sometimes we were afraid they would hesitate to have such a

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verdict. On 22nd July, I hid in the cafe building. And survived. I am

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very pleased but decision was one I agree with and I feel it's the

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right one. His trail of killing started here in Oslo with a huge

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bomb explosion outside the prime minister's office. Eight people

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were killed. Much later, this picture of Breivik leaving the

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scene was found on CCTV. As the emergency services defend the

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capital city, he was heading to the island of Utoeya. The sound is

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haunting. GUNFIRE. The sound of him killing young people at their

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annual camp organised by the Labour Party. Legitimate targets, he

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called them, being trained as Marxists to promote a multicultural

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Europe. He had more than one hour before the police arrived. He

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killed more than 69 people here. shot all my friends when they were

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trying to swim away from him. And he shot my friends when they were

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hiding. He shot my friends when they were running away from him. It

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was horrible. When armed police finally arrived, he surrendered

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without a fight. A few weeks later, he's taken back to the island to

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talk through his actions. You can just see the tether the police used

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to ensure he did not escape. Anders Breivik killed 77 people in the

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space of four hours, shooting most of his victims at very close range

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with obsessive precision. Most were young adults, some still children,

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the youngest was 14. But this evening, when he was

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allowed a moment to speak in court, he used it to apologise to other

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extremists for not killing more people that day. Before the judge

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cut him off mid-sentence. Anders Breivik will begin his 21 years

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preventive detention at this prison on the outskirts of Oslo. Most

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Norwegians believe conditions will never be right for him to be

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released. He will be in solitary confinement in prison cells

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prepared especially for him to protect other criminals and protect

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him from them. Most Norwegians I spoke to today are relieved justice

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has been done. Some are dismayed, thinking possibly Anders Breivik

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will be too comfortable in prison, where he may be given extra sales,

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extra space, to compensate him for the solitary confinement he will

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endure if he has to be protected from other prisoners. It is also to

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be said, many Norwegians will be disgusted by the fact he was able

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to use the court this evening as a platform to try and propagate more

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of his poisonous views, seeking to apologise to other ultra-

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nationalists, for failing to kill more people that date. But I think,

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in many ways, the overwhelming feeling, having talked to families

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and survivors outside the court, it is that he won't be coming out of

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prison at any time soon. And that, above all, they won't have to see

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him or hear from him again in the future.

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James, thank you. James, joining us from Oslo. The Press Complaints

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Commission says it's received more than 850 complaints from the public

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about the Sun newspaper's decision to publish photographs of Prince

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Harry naked in a hotel room in Las Vegas. The paper says they were

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freely available on the internet and had already been viewed by

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millions of people. Our Royal Correspondent, Nicholas Witchell,

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Self restraint lasted rather less than 48 hours. This morning, the

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frustration felt in Britain's tabloid newsrooms came too much for

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the Sun newspaper and there inside his pages with the voters of Prince

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Harry in Las Vegas. The freedom of the press had outweighed the

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privacy of this particular individual. This is about the

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ludicrous situation where a picture can be seen by hundreds of millions

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of people around the world on the internet, but can't be seen in the

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nation's favourite newspaper. According to the Sun newspaper this

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morning, there is a clear public interest in publishing the pictures

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in order for the debate around them to be fully informed. But the rival

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Daily Mirror disagreed and said -- so did the editor of the

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Independent. He was at a private hotel room with people he had

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invited into the room. A private party. Some body betrayed his trust

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and took those pictures. There is no public interest in those

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pictures at all. The former deputy prime minister Lord Prescott, once

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a notable victim of the tabloid himself, said there was all about

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profit. Somebody gets a photograph, makes money, and the others by the

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pictures and make money again. It's nothing to do the public interest.

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It is profit, profit, profit. this is happening in the shadow of

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Lord Justice Leggatt some's inquiry into the behaviour of the British

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press. Among the options he will be considering our continued self-

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regulation by a reshaped Press A new strength and a regulator,

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possibly underpinned by legislation. Or full scope of the laws ball for

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that is the least favoured option for editors. That is all for the

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future, of course. Right now Prince Harry and his advisers must decide

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whether they are going to make a formal complaint to the Press

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Complaints Commission. That is being considered at the moment for

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that as I understand it, no decision has been taken about a

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complete. Prince Harry have been advised by his family to keep a low

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profile. Because the story may not be over. More photographs of his

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exploits in Las Vegas are said to be circulating. His dream holiday

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has well and truly turned into a nightmare.

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New figures suggest the British economy shrank by less than first

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thought between April and June. The Office for National Statistics

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originally estimated that GDP, the total value of goods and services

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produced in the economy, would contract by 0.7% in that period.

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But it's now reduced the scale of the fall. Our Chief Economics

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Correspondent, Hugh Pym, explains. Digging down into the data, the

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statisticians have come up with the latest snapshot of the economy.

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They say it's not been quite as bad as they thought. They had said

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output fell by 0.7% between April and June but now they think it was

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not 0.5%. So why is that? The answer lies in industries like

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construction and mining, which things have turned out better than

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first thought. This company surprised triggers off a bit says

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trading has been difficult, but not as bad as the data implied --

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supply is diggers calls up I was surprised by the degree of

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contracts and suggested. We have seen some softening but not to the

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degree we have in the figures in the last couple of quarters bought

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the key is what he meant. Industrial production including

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mining had fallen 1.3% over three months, it was suggested. Now it is

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0.9%. For construction, 5.2% has been revised that to 3.9%. So what

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about the consumer side of the economy? The latest figures show

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household spending fell again with budgets being squeezed because

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cost-of-living increases were running well ahead of average pay

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rises. With inflation predicted to fall further, that pressure could

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be easing. Consumers are still very nervous but they are spending a

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little bit more and perhaps the weather has played in to bat as

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well. The next six months, if inflation continues to come down,

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it should help households find more money in the budgets and spend a

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bit more on the High Street. Shoppers we spoke to do they were

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still cautious about their spending plans. We just 10 to get on with it,

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buy it, moan about it, because become too much else about it.

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is tough for everybody and it won't be easy. Are you spending the same

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as you work? It's extremely difficult. Whether its

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manufacturing or service industries, the fact is, we are still in

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recession. The economy is not sparkling normally and the

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political debate over where growth is going to come from is likely to

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intensify. Two people have died in a shooting

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near the Empire State Building in New York. Police say a disgruntled

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worker had killed a former colleague before being shot dead by

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police. Nine people were wounded in the exchange of fire. Michelle

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Fleury reports from Manhattan. What should have been another

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bustling day in midtown Manhattan took a frightening term. A gunman

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opened fire in the middle of the city's rush out. In one of the

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world's best loan landmarks, the Empire State Building. He and one

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other are dead and nine others were wounded, some by police gunfire.

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disgruntled former employee of a company at that address shot and

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killed a former co-worker. Striking him three times. The subject,

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Geoffrey Johnson, aged 53, then fled eastbound on West 34th Street.

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To Fifth Avenue. Then he walked northbound along the line with a 45

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calibre handgun secreted in a black bag he had under his arm. Geoffrey

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Johnson was laid off one year ago. It's believed he went back to his

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old workplace to confront a former colleague. In the mayhem,

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bystanders described the scene. had multiple gunshot and one single

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gunshot and then it was pretty so real because there was no screaming,

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just slow motion. I saw girl running next to me going down and

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that could it be me. She was hit in the leg. Hopefully, she will be OK.

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It is several hours since the gunmen opened fire and this is

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still an active crime scene. Police have cordoned off several blocks of

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midtown Manhattan. Over my shoulder is the Empire State Building. Very

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popular with tourists at this time of year. The area, though, also has

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a lot of office blocks. Making this normally and normally bustling part

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of town. Michael Bloomberg, an outspoken critic of gun-control

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laws in the USA, spoke from the scene. New York City is the safest

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big city in the country and we are going to have a record low number

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of murders this year but we are not immune to the national problem of

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gun violence. Officials say the incident had nothing to do with

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The US Anti-Doping Agency says it has stripped cycling's Lance

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Armstrong of his Tour de France titles and has issued a lifetime

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ban from the sport. It follows his decision not to fight charges,

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brought by agency, that he used performance-enhancing drugs.

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Armstrong said he had grown weary of what he has described as a witch

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hunt against him. Lance Armstrong's White story is

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one of the most dramatic sport has ever known. He won the Tour de

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France seven times in a row, elevating cycling to new levels and

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his own profile to the American A- list. It was all the more

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extraordinary because he did it after overcoming life-threatening

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cancer. But his career and reputation have been dogged by

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persistent allegations that his achievements were fuelled by banned

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performance-enhancing drugs. Claims he has always denied. A I try not

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to let it bother me and just keeps rolling right along. I know what I

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know and I know what I do and it did. That is not going to change.

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Today, it did change. Faced with a raft of charges from the US Anti-

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Doping Agency, backed up by as many as 10 the former team-mates, he and

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characteristically through in the towel. In a statement he said,

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there comes a point in every man's life when he has to say, enough is

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enough. For me, that time is now it. Armstrong says this is not an

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admission of guilt. Despite that, the US Anti-Doping Agency has

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banned him for life and stripped him of his titles. Those can be

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appeared but for the man leading the fight against doping, the

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implications for a Lance Armstrong are clear. Those are very serious

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charges and it means he is effectively acknowledging that they

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had substance and that allows you, under the rules, to impose

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sanctions. Cycling has become accustomed to dealing with major

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doping scandals but the Lance Armstrong case may be the biggest

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blow yet to its credibility. The sport says it has cleaned up its

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act and in this country at least, that is crucial because it is

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enjoying an unprecedented surge in success and popularity. One of

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plants and Strang's former team mates says cycling has changed.

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Just watching the Tour de France, it is a completely different style

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of racing from 10 years ago. many, Lance Armstrong will always

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be known as one of sport's biggest heroes and one today's developments

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leave a lot of questions unanswered, his reputation has been damaged,

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perhaps beyond repair. Our top story tonight: Anders

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Breivik who murdered 77 people in Norway last year is sentenced to

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the maximum of 21 years although he may never be released.

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Coming up: The man behind the Paralympics - how a Dr's work with

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injured World War Two soldiers led to the start of the Games.

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Coming up: The English summer it takes its grip again. The first

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one-day international between England and South Africa is

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abandoned due to rain. The Duke of Edinburgh will not

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attend the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games next week although

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Buckingham Palace said he continues to recover well from the infection

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which kept him in hospital for five nights. Today, the first of the

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ceremonial cauldrons for the Paralympics was lit in London.

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Others will follow in Belfast, Edinburgh and Cardiff over the bank

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holiday weekend. Paralysed from the chest down, it

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took Claire Lomas 16 days to complete this year's London

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Marathon. This morning it was a shorter journey to bring the pan

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and put flame to the host city. do you put that into words? So

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proud and I feel very privileged to be asked to be involved in today. I

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have a lot of respect for those you are going to come back bringing the

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medals for Team GB again! The UK is still suffering from withdrawal

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symptoms from the Olympics, the Paralympics could be the antidote.

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More than 4000 athletes are set to compete. We had a few days of the

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blues after the Olympic Games but people sooner quickly snapped out

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of it and recognised we were only halfway through. Paralympic sport

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is just mind-blowing when you watch it. With the flame now in the heart

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of the capital, the countdown to the Paralympics is truly under way.

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At Paralympics that organisers hope will be the most high profile ever

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staged. One that it is hoped will transcend sport and help change

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attitudes towards disabled people. The torch relay is a crucial part

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of the mission to get the public fully engaged. London is the first

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of the cauldron Whiting's from the flames which were created on the

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highest peaks of the UK. Over the next few days there will be similar

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events in Belfast, Edinburgh and Cardiff. Before flames will then

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come together at Stoke Mandeville on Tuesday when the start of a 24

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hour really to Stratford. This afternoon at the English game was

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taken to the preparations for this week's Notting Hill Carnival. Then

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on to the Houses of Parliament. The Paralympic symbol now hangs from

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Tower Bridge, just five days and counting before the next great

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festival of sport. Later we will hear about the man

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who conceived the Paralympics. A man who killed six people

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including his wife and two young children in a knife attack in

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Jersey has been convicted of manslaughter. During his trial the

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court heard Damian Rzeszowski, a Polish National, was affected by

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what was described as a psychotic symptoms.

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Damian Rzeszowski, described in court as a hard-working family

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living man, and man who, one summer afternoon, killed all those closest

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to him. A Kent only imagine the grief of the families who have lost

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their loved ones in such brutal circumstances. The events of 14th

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August 1920 11 have left a very sad, indelible mark on Jersey's history.

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When emergency services answered frantic calls to the flat innocent

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Hillier, they were faced with an horrific scene. This is a police

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plan of the flat. Damian Rzeszowski attacked his father in law in the

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bedroom and then moved into the lounge in search of his wife and

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children. Armed with kitchen knives, he turned on his father not as he

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watched TV. His two-year-old son, his five-year-old daughter and her

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friend, both aged five, were attacked as they played. Their

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mother was found critically injured in the street as was Damian

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Rzeszowski's wife. The first police officers to arrive here found him

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inside the flat with what were clearly self-inflicted stab wounds.

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The prosecution rejected his claims that he could remember little of

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what has happened and he had suffered some mental breakdown. He

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was a man whose desire for revenge at his wife's affair had exploded

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into violence. Expert witnesses for the defence argued that his

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depression over the marriage break- up had made him and mentally

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unstable and in the end, the court agreed with that view. Outside, a

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police liaison officer read a statement from the family. This

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tragedy is even more painful as we have lost our children and

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grandchildren are. Knowing that we will never be able to play with

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them again or cuddled them and we can never talk to them again and it

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makes the pain unbearable. Damian Rzeszowski will be sentenced in a

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few weeks' time. He has twice tried to take his own life and is now

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facing the consequences of those terrible minutes on a summer

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afternoon. The number of measles cases in

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England and Wales almost doubled in the first half of this year,

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compared to the same period last year, according to the Health

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Protection Agency. In total there were 964 cases from January to June

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with ongoing outbreaks in Merseyside and Sussex. The Health

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Promotion Agency says it is vital children receive both doses of the

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MMR vaccination before the start of the new school year.

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As we have heard, the Paralympics gets under way next week but how

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did it all begin? It can be traced back to a German Jew who fled the

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Nazis before the outbreak of the Second World War. When Dr Ludwig

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Guttmann arrived in Britain, he started a spinal unit for injured

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servicemen. He soon realised that sport could help rebuild their

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lives and from that evolved the Paralympics.

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Modern Paralympian is in training at Stoke Mandeville stadium,

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members of a global sports movement which started here at a makeshift

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wartime hospital, thanks to the energy and vision of one man. Dr Dr

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Ludwig Guttmann was a Jewish refugee who fled Germany and helped

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found the spinal injuries unit. For over 30 years, he inspired his

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patients, many ex servicemen, to use sport to transform their lives.

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We started with the soldiers in the war, a simple games first like

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darts into the wall. We then had snooker and then restarted skittles

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and then I saw of course how these men reacted, not only physically,

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but psychologically. On the opening day of the London Olympics in 1948,

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he organised the first Stoke Mandeville Games. By the 1960s,

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disabled sports have been accepted into the Olympic movement as the

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Paralympics. Philip Lewis played table tennis as a Paralympian and

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was treated by Dr Ludwig Goodman. He was quite a severe man with his

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staff and with the paraplegics. But, behind it all, there was that sort

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of tremendous kindness. He made you realise that he wanted to do the

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best for you. But you had to put your bit. Here at Stoke Mandeville,

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be treated many of Britain's Paralympian as and many others who

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years ago would have been written off as incurable and left to die.

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The spinal injuries unit here is one part of his legacy. Another

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part is a commitment to helping disabled people fulfil their

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potential, whether as athletes, individuals or as members of

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society. One of Britain's greatest modern Paralympian is says disabled

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people told Dr Ludwig Goodman agreed debt. He believed disabled

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people should live normal lives and I think it was his persistence at a

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time when not so people thought he was slightly mad thinking that

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disabled people could contribute and he just stood up to everyone.

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He is now commemorated by a new statute at Stoke Mandeville, a man

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with a passionate belief in the power of sport to restore it not as

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disabled people's fitness, but their self-esteem and their dignity

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as well. There is rain around right now

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across the more the southern and central parts of your cake. It will

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edge its way further northwards. The showers across Scotland will

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dwindle tonight. Not desperately cold with temperatures of 14 or 15

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degrees. A lot of rain around tomorrow and gusty winds along the

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south coast. Otherwise, the winners will be fairly light which means

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that the rain all be a slow moving. There will be a few lucky places

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which avoid the reins. Northern Ireland and western Scotland are

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best placed to see some sunshine at. Some thunder and lightning and

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maybe he'll have mixed in. Southernmost counties are England

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will have a brisk wind to add to the disappointing feel of things on

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Saturday afternoon. The low- pressure responsible for the wet

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weather just eases out into the North Sea as we going to Sunday.

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They will be a few showers left behind, Sunday looks like the best

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day. Some sunshine, lighter winds and although temperatures don't

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look spectacular, it will feel rather more pleasant in the

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