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of murdering four British soldiers in London, won't stand trial because

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of what's been called a "reckless" police error. Families of those

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killed in the 1982 attack in Hyde Park, say they feel "devastatingly

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let down" after a judge threw out the case. The case against John

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Downey collapsed after an error by police in Northern Ireland meant he

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was falsely assured that he wasn't a wanted man. Devastatingly

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disappointing. Incredibly angry and frustrated. We will get reaction to

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the news amid accusations of secret deals behind-the-scenes. Also

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tonight: Rebekah Brooks tells the Old Bailey she didn't know

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phone-hacking was illegal when she was in charge of the News of the

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World. The British former Guantanamo Bay detainee, Moazzam Begg, is

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arresteded in Birmingham by counter terrorist police. Labour's Harriet

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Harman says she's nothing to apologise for and accuses the Daily

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Mail of a smear campaign after claiming she was an apologist for

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paedophilia. And a blow for users of the virtual currency bitcoins, as a

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major trader goes offlinoing millions. On BBC London: Stabbed 22

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times after disturbing a burglar. Today, his attacker is found guilty

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of murder. And, the mother who died after a caesarean, her family is

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awarded undisclosed damages at the High Court.

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Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. A judge has ruled that

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a suspected IRA terrorist, charged with murdering four British soldiers

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in the 1982 Hyde Park bombing, will not now stand trial because of a

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mistake made by the police in Northern Ireland. John Downey was

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arrested at Gatwick Airport in May last year, six years after receiving

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a letter of assurance as part of the Northern Ireland peace process,

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wrongly saying he wasn't wanted by British police. Relatives of the

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four soldiers who died in the bombing say they are incredibly

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angry and frustrated. Home affairs correspondent, Matt Prodger is at

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the Royal Courts of Justice for us now. Matt. Sophie, just an hour ago

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that suspected terrorist walked free from court. The families of soldiers

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who died in the Hyde Park bombing have been denied justice, in the

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meantime, the peace process in Northern Ireland has been undermined

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by the controversy. It's all down to a simple mistake for which the The

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Police Service of Northern Ireland tonight accepted responsibility. It

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was one of the IRA's most notorious attacks, a car bomb in Hyde Park

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which killed four soldiers from the Household Cavalry on a route used

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for the Changing of the Guard. The bodies of seven horses were among

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the debris. For three decades police in London had a want for John

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Downey, wanted in connection with the bombing. He was arrested in May

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after arriving from Ireland he denied the charges. A judge has

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ruled he should not stand trial. Afterwards, a Sinn Fein MP spoke on

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Mr Downey's behalf. John Downey should never have been arrested. It

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was part of the agreement that was reached in the Good Friday

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Agreement. I welcome the fact he has now been released and free to go

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home. The ruling has angered relatives of the victims, one of

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whom was 23-year-old lieutenant Antony Daly. Devastatingly

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disappointing, incredibly angry and frustrated. The judgment highlights

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a number of facts, core facts, which the judge has summarise and the

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families don't understand how such a catastrophic failure could be

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allowed to be - to go uncorrected. For more than 30 years, relatives of

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the soldiers who died here have been waiting for justice. An earlier

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conviction of another man was overturned because of doubts about

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the evidence. Now, another prosecution has failed because of an

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almighty blunder. To underis stand why means going back to the Northern

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Ireland peace agreement. In the years thatle foed its signing,

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nearly 200 wanted men were given assurances they were no longer at

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risk of prosecution for terrorist offences. In 2007, the Northern

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Ireland Office sent John Downey a letter telling him, "there's no

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outstanding direction for prosecution in Northern Ireland.

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There are no warrants in existence, nor are you wanted in Northern

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Ireland for arrest, questioning or charge by the police." The Police

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Service of Northern Ireland are not aware of any interest in you from

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any other police force in the United Kingdom." Today's ruling says

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officials discovered the letter was mistaken. He was wanted in London,

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but it wasn't corrected. John Downey travelled to the mainland at least

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four times before he was arrested. It was a very serious error on

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behalf of the PSNI. It's important now that there is a proper

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investigation into how it happened, why it happened and what lessons

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need to be learned to ensure this kind of thing doesn't happen again.

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In the end, the judge concluded that holding state officials to promises

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they'd made was more important than putting the suspected bomber on

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trial. Matt Prodger, BBC News, at the High Court.le Our Ireland

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correspondent, Ireland correspondent, Chris Buckler, is in

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Belfast. So, widespread anger following this error. Also

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accusations of secret deals behind-the-scenes Yes, indeed.

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Northern Ireland's First Minister, Peter Robinson, has tonight accused

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the Government of doing a dirty deal with Sinn Fein over the issue of on

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the runs. These were people who were accused of terrorist offences or

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suspected of terrorist offences of which John Downey was one. Northern

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Ireland's politicians had discussed the issue. There have been attempt

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to come up with some form of legislation am they couldn't come up

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with a compromise. As a result, we find out, in this judgment today, of

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years of secret negotiations between Sinn Fein and the Government and

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also scores of letters sent to paramilitary suspects. Again, secret

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letters. Unionists are call calling those tonight get out of jail free

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cards. There is upset from many relatives of victims, including

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those who were killed in the Hyde Park bombing. They have said tonight

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that they are bitterly disappointed this trial won't now take place

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because of a letter sent in error and a process that was mefr made

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public. The Government is promising to review that process in case other

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mistakes were made.let Chris, thank you very much. The former editor of

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the News of the World, Rebekah Brooks, says she didn't know thatle

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phone-hacking was illegal when she was in charge of the paper. She told

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the Old Bailey she knew it was possible to access other people's

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voicemails, but she had never sanctioned it. She also said she

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knew nothing about the hacking of the phone belonging to the murdered

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schoolgirl, Milly Dowler, in 2002, and had only found out about it

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three years ago. Here's our Home Affairs Correspondent, Tom Symonds.

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The mobile phone of a schoolgirl who had been abducted and murdered,

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hacked into by a tabloid newspaper. Who at the News of the World knew

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Milly Dowler had been targeted? Rebekah Brooks was the paper's

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editor. The prosecution says not only did she know, so did Andy

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Coulson, her deputy, because they discussed it by phone. Rebekah

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Brooks questioned for a third day denies it. Central to her defence is

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the fact that while this was going on in 2002, she was not at the Helm

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of the newspaper. In fact, she was here on holiday in Dubai while

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journalists in London worked on the next Sunday's edition of the News of

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the World. The she was asked by her barrister, Jonathan Laidlaw QC did

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she know anything about the decision to access Milly's messages. Her

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answer, "absolutely not." The messages had made reporters think an

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employment agency was trying to offer Milly a job. It was just a

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mistake. They thought it might be a hoax call. The paper published this

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article, including a transcript of the message. By the time the second

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edition was printed the transcript was removed. The prosecution said

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she called Mr Coulson from her hoe toll to discuss the change. The jury

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was shown line lie line records of her calls back to the office and to

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Mr Coulson. She said she could not remember ever discussing Milly

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Dowler. Earlier, her barrister, Jonathan Laidlaw QC had said, "were

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you ever asked to sanction accessing another's voicemail as part of an

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investigation or as a technique more general" her answer "no

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phone-hacking would have been an invasion of privacy, at the time I

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don't think anybody, me included, knew it was illegal." She told the

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court she found out about the Milly Dowler hacking in 2011 her reaction

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was, in her own words "shock, horror." This week Rebekah Brooks is

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being questioned by her own barrister. Then it will be the turn

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of the prosecution to interrogate her. She continues to deny all the

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charges against her. Tom Symonds, BBC News, at the Old Bailey. A

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British former Guantanamo Bay detainee, Moazzam Begg, is among

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four people who have been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences

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relating to Syria. He was detained at his home in Birmingham and is

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facing allegations of attending a terrorist training camp and

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facilitating terrorism overseas. Here's our home affairs

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correspondent, June, Kelly. Moazzam Begg is a well-known, campaigner,

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commentator and in the years after 9/11 detainee, held by the

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Americans. Today, a decade on, he was arrested by counter-terrorism at

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the detectives at his home in Birmingham. There were vehicles

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parked up in the road opposite. The little cul-de-sac. I was surprised,

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they seemed to be blocking that road. There were several people at

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the front door, blue gloves on, it didn't mean anything to me. A few

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minutes later a low loader arrived and took both cars away. Moazzam

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Begg was in incars rated in Guantanamo Bay at the height of the

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US war on terror. He had been arrested initially in Pakistan in

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2002. Then in the custody of the Americans, he was transported to

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Afghanistan. Then moved to Guantanamo Bay where he was held for

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two years. A US military document said, "detainee has been identified

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as being affiliated with three extremist organisations including

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Al-Qaeda. " "Moazzam Begg denied this. When he was freed and arrived

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back in the UK he was held by British police and released without

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charge. He now works for a campaign organisation and has visited Syria.

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He, as I, have been concerned about the use of black sites, so-called

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black sites in Syria, Libya and elsewhere used for torture. I know

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that was one of the things he was investigating. Around 300 people are

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estimated to have gone out to Syria from the UK. Earlier this month this

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footage emerged of Abdul Waheed Majid from Crawley, said to have

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blown himself up in a suicide bomb attack on a prison. Today's police

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operation is the latest in a series of Syria-related investigations.

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Like Moazzam Begg, the others arrested are the suspect of

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facilitating terrorist -- terrorism there. Labour's Deputy Leader,

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Harriet Harman, is refusing to apologise over links bean between an

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organisation she used to work for and a group that campaigned for the

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rights of paedophiles. She has accused the Daily Mail of making the

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issue headline news to try and smear her. The Labour leader, Ed Miliband,

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has offered her her his 100%ed support. She's been he at the heart

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of British politics for more than 30 years, Harriet Harman is being

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forced to answer questions abouts her work for a civil liberties group

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back in the 70s. It's connections to a paedophile organisation. The

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Paedophile Information Exchange was controversial. Its meetings targeted

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by protesters outraged with the way the group spoke up for adults

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attracted to children. It joined the NCCL where Ms Harman worked. I'm not

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going to apologise, I've nothing to apologise for. I very much regret

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that this vile organisation PIE, ever existed and that it ever had

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anything to do with NCCL, but it did not affect my work at NCCL. They

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have been pushed to the margins before I went to NCCL. In 1975, the

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group affiliated to the NCCL, the following year the NCCL campaigned

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to lower the age of consent to 14. Harriet Harman joined the

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organisation in 1978 as a Legal Officer. Paedophile Information

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Exchange were finally expelled in 1983. So how did a paedophile group

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get close to campaigners like NCCL? One journalist who opposed them in

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the 70s ex-- explained PIE targeted lib tearian left groups who might

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have been fighting for abortion rights, to troops out of Ireland to

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give themselves legitmacy. This was the same tactic indeed as militant

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or some other political groups like that. Trying to get inside

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presenting themselves as respectable. The link came to light

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in Daily Mail articles focussing on Harriet Harman, her MP husband, Jack

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Dromey, and former Cabinet Minister, Patricia Hewitt who all worked at

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the NCCL. The paper denies it's unfairly singling out these Labour

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MPs. When we looked into the archive there were pages and pages and

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pages. It's all the more remarkable that a woman of such high office

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never saw once fit to say, I don't think this can be right. Labour's

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Deputy Leader is clearly furious, tweeting she wouldn't take lessons

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on decency from the Mail which printed this photo of an American TV

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star when she was 12. Miss Harman is not prepared to do anything to

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encourage the view that she somehow turned a blind eye to paedophilia.

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Ed Miliband has given her a full-backing. He believes this is a

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politically motivated story from the Daily Mail. Our top story this

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evening a suspected IRA terrorist accused of murder in the 1982 Hyde

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Park bombings won't stand trial after what has been called a

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"reckless" police error. Still to come: Is it the end of an era,

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Andrew loyal Webber's new musical is to close after four months.

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It is a virtual currency which only exists on the internet. It coin

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bypasses the traditional banking system and has become increasingly

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attractive as it does not involve exchanging currencies. -- bitcoin.

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It has seen a sharp fall in its value today, because one bitcoin is

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currently worth around ?315, down on its peak of almost ?700 in December.

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You by bitcoins through an online exchange and one of the biggest,

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Mount Gox, unexpectedly shut down today, owing hundreds of millions of

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pounds and wanting the fall in the value of the currency. Robert

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Preston explains. In the world of the internet, the

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virtual world, there is a currency that does not belong to any nation

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called bitcoin. Like all currencies, it can be exchanged into more

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conventional currencies like dollars or pounds except one of the biggest

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exchange houses, Mount Gox, has gone off-line. It seems to have vanished

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apparently losing customers hundreds of millions of dollars. I've had 311

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bitcoins, which was worth around $300,000. It looks like that has

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disappeared. Mount Gox did 80% of bitcoin trading in the early days

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but has been in difficulty for some time. Do think there has been

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fraught here? I think of the is a strong likelihood of that. -- there

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has been fraud. The fact that they are not talking about what is going

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on and they have deleted the sweet s, something is suspicious. -- they

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are tweaked this. Others suggested that Mount Gox was an exception and

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the other ex-changes are robust. You cannot hold bitcoin in your hands,

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it is just blips on a screen. And the price is volatile. Look how much

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the exchange rate has fallen in just the last 24 hours. If the pound is

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it that, Britain would be bankrupt. But what is really interesting about

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bitcoin is the way that it poses a challenge to the big banks, in that

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it has the potential to become a really cheap global network for

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transmitting or shunting money anywhere at any time, so it could be

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as dangerous to the traditional banks as Amazonas has been to shops.

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It is more interesting as a way of moving money around. -- hammers on

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has-been. At the least, these brokers, which turn bitcoin into

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money or vice versa, should be readily to? I think it would help

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bitcoin. -- regulated. I think there are all legitimate concerns about

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bitcoin crushing legislation. But people want safeguards around their

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money. Exchanges would be a good place to introduce regulation.

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Bitcoin, an online revolution in global money or a bubble about to be

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popped? Brats, like the internet in its early days, both. -- perhaps.

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One of the largest chains of academies in England is to lose

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control of ten schools. The Department for Education says that

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the move was made after Ofsted inspectors raised serious concerns

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about the performance of some of the schools. Officials are now trying to

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find a new sponsors for the academies.

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An Academy chain in trouble. This is one of hundreds of education

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charities to have taken over the running of England's state schools

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but today it has become the first to have to give up a string of them.

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This school is one of those that learned today that it is being

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handed over to an as yet unknown new sponsor. The head says it is

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unsettling. We are reacting to Ofsted and working flat out to make

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things better. We have been doing that for two years and we will

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continue do that. To be distracted eye something beyond our control, in

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which we have had no part, is frustrating. Ofsted inspected half

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of their schools in the last three weeks and that has triggered this

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move. This school is being let go because the struggling chain needs

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to focus on fewer schools. Academy schools in England were started

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under Labour but have mushroomed under the coalition government. They

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are state funded schools but have been run free of local authority

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control. The majority are run by education trust is. In 2010, there

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were just 223 academy schools but this year, the number was over 3500.

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were just 223 academy schools but this year, the number was The

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Education Secretary says that academies drive up standards but a

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chain giving up ten schools is a blow. Did he allow E-ACT to expand

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too fast? We always know that there will sometimes be failure in the

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education system, whether it is that academy level or local authority

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level. The important thing to do is to make sure that when

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underperformance shows, that we take the action required. No one at E-ACT

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was available for comment but they put out a statement saying that they

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wanted to focus on the schools that they still control. Today's

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development has renewed questions about why individual academy schools

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can be inspected at Ofsted, but not the overarching Academy chain. The

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chief inspector of England's schools has publicly said he wants to

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inspect chains and not just schools. Labour says it would help avert

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problems. We think the government should allow Ofsted to inspect

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academy chains so we do not end up with a piecemeal failings that we

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have seen today. We need to get to grips with the culture of these

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chains rather than dealing with individual problem schools.

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Ministers will not budge, saying the resume is tough enough. Meanwhile,

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E-ACT schools around the country are wondering what they are

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shareholders. -- what their future holds. Peter

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Bone has said that he and his wife are totally innocent of allegations

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of fraud relating to the care of his mother-in-law. The Times says that

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the Crown Prosecution Service are looking into claims that assets

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belonging to her work and sealed so that Northamptonshire County Council

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would fund her time in eight home. The trial of Oscar Pistorius for the

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murder of his girlfriend is to be partly televised when it begins next

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week. A judge in Johannesburg ruled that lawyers statements and some

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prosecution evidence can be broadcast live, but evidence from Mr

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Pistorius himself will not be shown. The athlete denies murdering Reeva

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Steenkamp last year. Remember this? The media interest in

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Oscar Pistorius's case was frenzied enough at his bail hearing last year

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and that was not even televised. Now comes the trial itself and today a

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ruling that the cameras will be allowed in so the world can see

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South African justice in action. In my view, it is in the public

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interest that, within allowable limits, the goings-on during the

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trial be covered as I have come to decide. Oscar Pistorius stands

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accused of murdering his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentine's Day

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last year. The athletes where is he thought he was shooting an intruder.

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Cameras will not be allowed to film Pistorius giving evidence but there

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will be a live audio transmission to feed a global audience. It is

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precedent-setting and it is a victory for open justice. We could

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not be happier. This is where the trial will be held. Oscar Pistorius

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will stand in the dark here. Following the ruling, the outside

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world will be able to watch some of it and listen to the entire

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proceedings live. It is a first for South African justice and not

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everybody is thrilled. They like to expose him and they are already

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seeing him as guilty. It is unfair. It is not fair on him. It is not.

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Pistorius was be met lawyers say that they feared that the cameras

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will impede a fair trial. It will start in earnest on Monday.

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-- Pistorius's lawyers. One critic has told it and end of an era for

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Andrew Lloyd Webber and his hold on theatre. Lloyd Webber has announced

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that his latest offering is closing after less than four months on the

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stage. Poor ticket sales have helped turn Stephen Ward into one of his

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biggest West End flops, in contrast to be successful Phantom of the

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Opera which has netted almost ?2 billion worldwide. -- V successful.

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Still open for business, for now. Stephen Ward, Andrew Lloyd Webber's

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newest musical. It opened in December and will close at the end

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of March. The show is based around the Profumo

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affair of the 1960s. But not enough came to see it. Despite significant

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ticket discounts. The man who once dominated musical theatre is

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struggling to find a new hit. In an increasingly competitive market. It

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is a similar story for his songwriting partner, Tim Rice. His

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show will also close next month. I think it is an end of an era. With

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Tim Rice's project closing on the same night, the Giants who dominated

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edition musicals for 40 years are leaving the stage. Literally. In a

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statement, the producer said he was proud of the show and the strong

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reviews that it received. He said he was sad to see it close in London

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but believed it would be seen by many audiences in the future.

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The Andrew Lloyd Webber back catalogue still sells. Phantom of

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the Opera remains one of the most successful musicals of all time. As

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does Josef. # I look Hansen, I look smart. But tastes are changing.

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Opening this weekend, the comedy musical, I can't saying, written by

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Harry Hill and produced by Simon Cowell. It is based on the X factor.

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It brings a notoriety to it. But the proof of the pudding is in the

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show. None of those things will help you if you do not have a good show.

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I think we do have a good show. Andrew Lloyd Webber's appetite for

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musical success shows no sign of waning. He is currently working on

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new songs for his next major project.

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Susan Powell is here with the weather. Quite a few showers around

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the British Isles today, particularly in the West, but now

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beginning to ease. We should see skies clearing overnight as the wind

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becomes lighter. The temperatures will slide. If you are a gardener,

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it might be time to cover tender plants because we will see a patchy

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frost developing in many areas by the morning. Here is the chart for

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overnight. For Northern Ireland, by the end of the night, heavier,

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persistent showers and rain arriving to start us off on Wednesday. These

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are the lows in the towns and cities. In rural areas, there will

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be patchy frost. In Northern Ireland, some wet weather pushing in

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from the west. And that is snow you see behind me, perhaps as low as 200

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metres through the morning rush hour. But we should see it becoming

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confined to about 400 metres and above as the morning goes on.

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Further south, clearer skies and morning sunshine. Some early showers

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across southern England. Northern Ireland, much drier by the afternoon

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with sunshine to come. And the showers will gradually fade across

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England and Scotland. The top temperatures for Wednesday between

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eight and 11 degrees. Fringing into the frame behind me, you can see the

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makings of a band of rain that is going to whip across the British

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Isles like last night, West to East. On a positive note, the worst of the

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wet and windy weather will move to the East on Thursday. For Thursday,

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look out for heavy showers with a focus on the South and West. A

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cooler feel as we get towards the end of the week with a mixture of

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sunshine and showers continuing. And that is all from the BBC News at

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six. It is goodbye from me

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