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Russia makes a surprise offer to break the deadlock over Syria's

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chemical weapons. Its foreign minister says their weapons could be

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put under international control. As the fighting continues, there has

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been a cautious reaction from around the world. If Syria were to put its

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chemical weapons under international supervision, clearly that would be a

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big step forward and should be encouraged. We'll be asking just how

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credible this latest Russian initiative is.

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Also tonight: BBC bosses get a grilling about over-size pay-offs -

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MPs say it was one rule for the elite and another for everyone else.

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The Michael Le Vell rape trial - the elite and another for everyone else.

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judge tells the jury not to be influenced by the distress of his

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alleged victim. And a classic Bond car resurfaces at

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auction in London after been found in a lock up garage.

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Coming up on BBC News, the FIFA president gives an indication that

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the cut our World Cup in 2022 may have been a mistake.

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Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. Russia has proposed a

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surprise plan to break the deadlock over Syria's chemical weapons. The

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Russian Foreign Minister is calling on the Syrian Government to put its

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stockpile under international supervision. So far the reaction

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from Damascus appears to be positive and here David Cameron says that the

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proposal, if confirmed, would be hugely welcome. This latest

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diplomatic move comes as the US administration steps up it efforts

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at home and abroad to get support for a military strike against Syria.

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Here's our diplomatic correspondent, James Robbins. President Assad used

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an interview with the American CBS James Robbins. President Assad used

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network to insist he didn't use chemical weapons and he predicts

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possible retaliation in the event of American strikes, perhaps by his

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allies in the region. Everything is on the blink of explosion, you have

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to expect everything. Senator John Kerry said they saw evidence of

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rockets fired from a region controlled by your army. It is about

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evidence. The Russians have completely opposite evidence that

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the missiles were thrown from an area where the rebels controlled it.

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None of that persuades America's Secretary of State. John Kerry

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argued the case against Syria's regime is solid and the American

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people and their lawmakers should not fear being dragged into war. We

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are not going to war. We will not have people at risk in that way. We

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will be able to hold Bashar al-Assad accountable without engaging troops

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on the ground or any other prolonged effort in a very limited, very

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targeted, very short-term effort that degrades his capacity to

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deliver chemical weapons. Then the ground suddenly seemed to shift when

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Mr Kerry was asked if there was any way Bashar al-Assad could avoid

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attack, he gave this reply. If he gave every bit of his chemical

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weapons to the international community in the next week, turn it

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over, all of it. John Kerry offered a potential way out is Bashar

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al-Assad got rid of all of his a potential way out is Bashar

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chemical weapons stocks in one week, but then Mr Kerry went on to

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say he isn't about to do it and it cannot be done obviously. Across the

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global divide on Syria, Russia is pushing the idea of Syrian chemical

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disarmament. The Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says he has already

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put the idea to his Syrian counterpart. We don't know if Syria

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will agree to it, but if opting chemical weapons in that country

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averts strikes then we will immediately get to work with it in

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Damascus. Now Syria has apparently welcomed the proposal from Russia,

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praising the Kremlin for seeking to prevent American aggression. Ban

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Ki-Moon is talking about the creation of UN supervised zones in

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Syria where the weapons could be destroyed. In the House of Commons

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the Prime Minister provided a welcome with a note of caution.

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Clearly that would be a big step forward and should be encouraged. I

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think we have to be careful to make sure this is not a distraction

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tactic to discuss something else rather than the problem on the

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table, but if it is a genuine offer it should be genuinely looked up.

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These developments do not mean the crisis is over. The threat of

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American strikes remains but the new twists will certainly complicate

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President Obama's efforts to get Congress and the American people

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behind him. Our Middle East editor, Jeremy Bowen, is in Damascus for us

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tonight. Jeremy, how seriously is the Administration in Damascus

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taking this Russian initiative? I have spoken to a senior official on

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the telephone who said, we accept this, we believe it would be win-win

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for all concerned, away to climb down out of this crisis. One

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question is how serious was John Kerry's proposal when he made it

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that the Foreign Office? It was a Kerry's proposal when he made it

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seemingly off-the-cuff answer to journalists, and he then almost

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immediately tried to back away from it so their response will be crucial

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and interesting. The Syrian official I spoke to said that the expectation

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here was that the would agree after what Mr Kerry said in London. In

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Washington it will strengthen the people in Congress who do not want

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to support military action and there has been an incident here in the

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last few days which might also strengthen that. There is an

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historic Christian town called Ma'loula and the Al-Qaeda supporting

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armed rebel group has taken it over and the Christians of that town have

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fled to Damascus and I have been talking to a few of them. By the

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time the men of Ma'loula met the Greek patriarch in Damascus, they

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were shocked by the speed of events in their home village. It is a place

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of pilgrimage where they still speak the language they believe was spoken

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by Christ. Infighting over the last week or so, Ma'loula has changed

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hands several times. Now the Syrian army has withdrawn and it is under

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the control of an armed rebel group affiliated with Al-Qaeda. The

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Christians of Ma'loula fled. They came to the Greek Catholic cathedral

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in Damascus for help. They said three had been killed and six

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kidnapped, and that the fighters desecrated their churches. They took

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the crosses and one of them destroyed it. There is a statue for

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our Lady and they tried also to destroy it. I don't know what they

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are fighting for actually, but they are against Christians now in

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Ma'loula. They were registered at the church for relief aid, the

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latest of 4 million displaced in this war. It is not easy to live in

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the village. When I arrived, I looked at my village and I was so

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sad, I said, my God, I can never go back to my village. The patriarch

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had a message for President Obama. It is enough, have mercy on us. You

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are saying no bombing? No bombing. Do you think that by bombing, Obama

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would help Al-Qaeda? He would make more chaos and we are the victims.

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Chaos is more dangerous than chemical. Everything is worse and

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worse and worse. These people getting emergency rations who just

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lost their homes are not interested in the kind of arguments being put

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forward by President Obama for military action, they believe it

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could even make matters worse and could end up benefiting the

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could even make matters worse and jihadists from whom they have fled.

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But many were angry that after the Syrian army secure their village, it

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was pulled out. One priest said they were being used by the regime

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deliberately exposed in the hope that a Christian trauma would

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strengthen the anti-war camp in the United States. George Osborne today

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said he has won the argument over Britain's economy. He said those who

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had wanted him to change course could not explain the current

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economy. The Chancellor is not declaring victory on the recovery

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just yet, like the block of flats in central London where he delivered

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his speech, it is a work in progress. But in the debate about

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posterity, George Osborne thinks he can now save plan A has beaten plan

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B. We held our nerve when many told us to abandon our plan and as a

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result, thanks to the efforts and sacrifices of the British people,

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Britain is turning a corner. Is it a fair summary of your speech that you

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were right about everything and your critics were wrong about everything?

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The Chancellor said he would have handled the problems at the Royal

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Bank Of Scotland differently but otherwise the answer seemed to be

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yes. There was a very heated argument in this country about plan

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A versus plan B. I would suggest those who advocated plan B can not

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explain what is happening at the moment. The Chancellor is right that

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the growth we have seen recently has been more broad-based, but George

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Osborne also claimed today the critics of austerity have now

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comprehensively lost the argument. Even experts who support the

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Chancellor don't think it is that black and white. Austerity has been

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a drag on economic growth but it has been the lesser of a number of

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evils. The implosion in the Eurozone has probably been the worst and the

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rebalancing of excesses prior to the crisis. Things might have gone

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better with Ed Miliband running the economy, they might have been

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worse, we simply don't know but Labour are now focusing less on the

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slow growth and more what it means for us. I think it is extraordinary

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complacency from the Chancellor. He for us. I think it is extraordinary

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is saying he has saved the British economy went at a time for ordinary

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families their living standards are falling. George Osborne said the

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success of his plan A and giving him the best chance of raising living

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standards as well. Not everybody here in Cardiff agreed. I think

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people are worse off than they were ten years ago, especially in my

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position with my baby. Housing prices going up in a few areas, good

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signs, but recovery is another matter. People seem to be spending

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more, the shops are quite busy, I think things are generally getting

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better. The Chancellor thinks the debate about how to fix the deficit

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is moving into the past. The debate about how to fix the hole in the

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living standards is alive and well. Let's talk to our political editor

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in Downing Street. The Chancellor was careful not to sound like he was

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boasting but this had the feel of an important speech. It was because for

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a long time the word on this street was that the Chancellor would be the

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last person to call the recovery, to say things were getting better but

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today he clearly decided he had waited long enough to do that. He

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was partly doing what Stephanie Flanders asked him about, saying I

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told you so, partly saying to the Labour Party, you said our policies

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would strangle the economy, now how do you explain the increase in

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growth? But he knows that elections are won when you talk about the

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future and Labour is having some are won when you talk about the

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effect by saying that too many people, talk of a recovery feels

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hollow because their living standards are being squeezed so the

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Chancellor is saying you have to carry on with the policies you have

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got now to deliver living standards, and low interest rates, you cannot

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change course. In other words, the argument about the economy, far from

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being dead, has only just begun. The BBC's former director general

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Mark Thompson and other executives are being questioned by a committee

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of MPs about a series of payoffs to senior managers at the Corporation

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of up to £1 million. Several of the payments went beyond what they were

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entitled to in their contracts. . The BBC has already admitted it got

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it wrong over its very generous payoffs. But who got it wrong? The

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chairman of the trust that oversees payoffs. But who got it wrong? The

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the BBC, Lord Patten says that he did not know how bad things were.

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The former Director General, Mark Thomson, he was not kept in the

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dark. This is all about the reputation of these men. When it

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comes to the payoffs, what do they know about them and what did they

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do? And perhaps most importantly, can their words be trusted? In a bid

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to unravel at all, seven senior BBC figures were lined up before MPs.

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Beginning with Lord Patten, had he misled Parliament when he said he

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did not know the details of one of the most controversial payoffs? He

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answered, saying it had been signed off before he arrived and he had

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been assured it was just fulfilling a contract. My supposed to get from

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that that there is a different view a contract. My supposed to get from

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of what a contractual entitlement is? -- and my supposed to. A

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different view to the one that you have been annunciator year? All I

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said to this committee, and I am in some difficulty about this, because

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I repeat that I was not party to any agreements made about Mark Byford. I

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am in the position where I am accused of having misled the

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committee on something that I never accused of having misled the

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new and could not have been expected to know. What about the man who

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helped draw up that deal? The former Director General, Mark Thomson. The

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question was why, and he could have offered half that amount. -- when he

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could. It was my judgement, and discussed with the ABC trust, that

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we wanted Mark Byford focused on the task we had. -- BBC Trust. We did

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not want him worried about headhunters. We wanted him focused.

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And that is why we decided not to ask him to work through his

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benefits. Moving on to who said what. And a crucial question, Hattie

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told the Trust about the deal? I believe that the suggestion made

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that I'm and my colleagues withheld important information about the

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settlements from the BBC, that the BBC trust was kept in the dark and

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that they would be just as interested in why we did not know,

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is untrue and unfair. The response of the Trust, it was not their job.

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The former chairman agreed that the sums were eye watering. It is a fair

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question about whether or not we should have spent more time

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question about whether or not we exploring the process of

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intimidation -- implementation. But let me draw on some of the evidence.

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So you agree that you should have? In hindsight, we should have. MPs

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said they were not criticising the BBC but the disagreements and lack

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of clarity meant it was a tough afternoon for the managers.

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Our top story this evening, Russia has made a surprise offer to break

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the deadlock over Syria's chemical weapons. And coming up, Flodden

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Field, one of the bloodiest battles in British history, is commonly

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rated 500 years on. --, narrated. in British history, is commonly

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Coming up on BBC News, Kimi Raikkonen is the leading contender

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to join Ferrari as the Italian team finalise their driver line-up for

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the 2014 season. Not a single piece of track has been

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laid but today, there was get another critical report in the

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government's planned high-speed rail link between London and the North of

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England. This time it came from MPs. The government says the HS two

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project will cost nearly £43 billion and is vital to Britain's economic

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future. It will connect the London to Birmingham from 2026 and then

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expand up to Manchester and Leeds from 2033. But the MPs say that the

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government case are based on research that is out of eight and

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fragile numbers. No one will be catching a high-speed

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train for 13 years, but the scheme is already controversial. Supporters

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have been a lining up in recent weeks to say they have gone cold on

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the idea and today an influential group of MPs waded in. I moved from

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being a supporter to thinking that this is not the right place to put

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being a supporter to thinking that £50 billion of money. The committee

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and eye are not alone. There are a growing number of voices who are

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sceptical about this project. This latest report says that HS2 has been

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plagued by spiralling costs and bundling benefits. It says that

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ministers have failed to prove that the scheme will revitalise the

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regions rather than just London. And there is criticism of the way that

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they have totted up the benefits for business users. It says that the

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user survey -- they use a 10-year-old survey and they assumed

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that business people cannot work on the train. In the modern world, that

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is clearly not true. At the moment, the fact is that everyday coming

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into Birmingham station, 5000 people are standing. You cannot work and

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stand. Every day, 4000 people are arriving at Euston station

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standing. You cannot work standing. The government says that the scheme

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will help to bridge the North-South divide. In Birmingham, this is what

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remains of the Victorian station they built for the first line to

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London. Here, there are plenty of supporters. HS2 will connect

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England's cities in a more dynamic way so that they perform in a more

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cohesive way, Coppell netting each other. It is a major opportunity for

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Birmingham's creative quarter, and Highgate. HS2 will begin major

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Birmingham's creative quarter, and regeneration, and we will see

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prosperity brought to those areas. Across the city, there are

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businesses that export all over the world. The boss is not convinced. Is

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London business going to come back up to Birmingham? It is difficult to

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say. The cost to the taxpayer needs to be looked at closely. And I

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believe, from what I've seen, that that has not been closely analysed.

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It should be analysed further to see if there is going to be a benefit to

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the taxpayer. We have had the attacks, now expect the fightback.

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The government is publishing a report on Wednesday claiming that

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HS2 can make billions for cities all over England.

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A jury in Manchester has been hearing the final arguments in the

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trial of the Coronation Street actor, Michael le Vell, accused of

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sexually assaulting and raping a young girl. Judith Moritz is outside

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the court. Eleanor laws QC for the prosecution

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again today by asking the jury of eight women and four men to decide

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whether the alleged victim in this case was a wicked and convincing

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liar or whether she was telling the truth. She said, I believe she is

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telling the truth and there is no reason for her to live. She told the

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jury that they should mark the girl's courage in coming to court

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with convictions. For the defence, Alistair Williamson told them that

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the prosecution's case had been a hollowed mirrors. He said they

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should not cast a man's life away when there was not enough evidence.

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The judge told them that the medical evidence had been essentially

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neutral. The jury will now continue their deliberations in this case

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tomorrow. 500 years ago today, one of the

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bloodiest battles in British history claimed the lives of some 15,000 men

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in the space of just three hours. The Scottish and English armies met

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at the Battle of Flodden field in Northumberland and Scotland lost

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their king, James IV. What happened in these

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Northumberland fields barely registers in English history. At in

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Scotland, it echoes down the centuries. Flodden was a battle that

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the Scots should have one. They had the larger army by far. They lost

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10,000 men here in a few hours. This was the major Scottish weapon. The

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Swiss pike. Clyde gives guided tours of the battlefield. He says that the

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Scots failed to see that the ground was waterlogged and their pike men

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got stuck in the mud with calamitous consequences. Scotland not only lost

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quantity, they lost quality. 14 lords of Parliament and the heads

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and areas of most of the landed families, as well as the King. It is

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the victory at Bannockburn two centuries earlier that is more

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enthusiastically recalled in Scotland, especially in the run-up

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to the independence referendum. But the modern cult of Braveheart and

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all that overshadows what happened here. In a way, this was the more

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decisive battle, a national cast of the -- catastrophe that in feeble

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Scotland as a successful and confident kingdom. -- enfeebled. You

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could argue that the journey towards union began on this hillside. At the

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high Kirk of Saint Giles in Edinburgh, descendants of those who

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died gathered. As the independence referendum approaches, national

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sentiment come on national pride and the triumphs and few Malaysians of

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history resonate with a powerful contemporary force. In 2014,

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Scotland faces a historic choice. What ever way Scotland votes, it

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must be a single lesson, that enmity, even ancient enmity can have

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no part. It is to the credit of politicians on all sides of the

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argument that it has not wielded that yet. But it might.

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Scotland's SNP government have paid little attention to the

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anniversary, but compared to other more celebrated battles, this is not

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a story to lift the national spirit. It was licensed to thrill in the

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James Bond film, The Spy Who Loved Me, but the Lotus Esprit 007 drove

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in the 1970s classic disappeared without trace. Now it has resurfaced

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at an option. -- and auction. For sale, 70s

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classic a low mileage, one not very careful owner... Can use women?But

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it is reversible. 007's Lotus Esprit from the spy who loved me as one of

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his most famous gadgets. -- The Spy from the spy who loved me as one of

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Who Loved Me. Several cars were used in filming and one that was driven

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underwater is, for the first time, up for auction. It is a cultural

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icon. Of all the Bond films and Bond cars that have done different

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things, I do not think there is anything that has been as

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outrageously memorable as a car that transformed itself into a submarine.

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After years in storage, it sold any blind auction for $100 and the owner

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did not know what he had got. He thought he had bought some blankets,

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until he went the next day and it was uncovered. Even at that point,

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he had no idea because he had never seen a James Bond movie in his life.

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Previous Bond cars have sold for millions of pounds but even

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collectors do not know what the submarine will fetch. I am intrigued

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to see. Nobody has clue what it will go for. Will you bid?I don't know.

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Sadly, the missile launchers do not work and because it was never fitted

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with an engine or wheels, it cannot be driven on the road. But inside,

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all the submersible equipment is still in place. So it could still be

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used underwater. All set to tackle another villain, bent on world

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domination. And that brings us to the weather

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with Peter Gibbs. Decent weather today where the sun broke through.

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But where it stayed cloudy, it was decidedly chilly. By chilly

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overnight, with a hint of autumn in the air. Much of the rain is dying

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away. We have seen some heavy showers through this afternoon. Some

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of those are lingering on. Becoming confined to eastern coasts as the

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night wears on. Elsewhere, coming try with the skies clearing.

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Temperatures dipping away. -- becoming dry. Towns and cities,

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generally holding at about 10 degrees. Onto tomorrow, ignore that

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wind and rain in the East for the moment, let's concentrate on the

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drier weather that most of us should experience across central and

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western areas. Diving underneath that, it is looking grim. Cold

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temperatures, 12 or 13, fairly persistent rain underneath grey

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skies. The wind, gale force along the north coast of Norfolk. Not a

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pleasant day at all. Moving away from the eastern corner, again,

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where you have the sunshine breaking through, it will be pleasant enough.

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It is only the middle part of September, so the sun is fairly

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strong. Highs of between 16 and 18. Feeling reasonably pleasant. The

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rain in the East were cleared away, only to be replaced by some more

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rain, moving in from the North West. Eventually, and -- a wet day. Bright

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skies in Scotland and Northern Ireland, and that will be the way of

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it through the west of the week. By the weather and temperatures on the

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low side. Most of us will see some rain from time to time.

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low side. Most of us will see some That is all from the BBC's News at

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six.

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