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The US coastguard agrees to resume its search for four missing British

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yachtsmen. Their boat capsized mid-Atlantic on Friday and the

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search was called off after two days. Their families are thrilled

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and relieved. This is the right course of action. You have four guys

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out there, and there is a good possibility that they are in that

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raft. The US coastguard is reportedly

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flying to the search area now. We'll bring you the latest.

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Also tonight: Average houses prices rise by 8% over the last year. Could

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they be jeopardising the economic recovery?

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An alleged victim of Rolf Harris waives her right to anonymity to

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claim he sexually assaulted her when she was 15.

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How switching to e-cigarettes can increase your chances of stopping

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smoking by 60%. And will this be the collection to

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provide a much-needed boost to M, whose profits have fallen for the

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third year in a row? On BBC London: after Abu Hamza's

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conviction, the Prime Minister vows to speed deportation of terror

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suspects. And a woman dying of cervical cancer sues the hospital

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that failed to spot she was at risk. Good evening and welcome to the BBC

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News at Six. The US coastguard has resumed its search for four British

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yachtsmen missing since Friday. The families of the men had mounted a

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desperate campaign to persuade the coastguard to continue looking for

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the men after they stopped searching on Sunday. The yacht was returning

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from Antigua when it ran into trouble. It went missing 620 miles

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east of Cape Cod. The US coastguard previously searched around 4,000

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square miles around the last confirmed location. If they are

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still alive, the men could be in an air pocket inside the upturned hull

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or, it's hoped, in a life raft. Our correspondent Duncan Kennedy has

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been following events from Southampton and he joins us now.

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This is exactly the news the family were hoping for? It is. After a day

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of very high in motion. They all work up this morning not knowing

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whether that search was going to resume or not. Then they learned

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that something like 200,000 people had signed an online petition

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calling for the search to begin, and late this afternoon news came across

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from the East is to that the search had been restarted. Nobody here is

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celebrating. There is a sense of relief that finally something is

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being done. The men at the centre of this

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extraordinary transatlantic human drama, relaxed and smiling in what

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is thought to be the last photo taken of them, the day before they

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set sail. This afternoon, their families went to the foreign office

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intending to add to the pressure on the United States to restart the

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search. But then news came through that the Americans had changed their

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minds. This is the right course of action. You have four guys out

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there. There is a good possibility, high probability, that they are in

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that raft, and we can find them. The American decision to look again for

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the Cheeki Rafiki, which went missing on Friday, was also welcomed

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by other members of the missing men's families. We feel that at

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least someone is looking for them and hopefully they will find

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something of them. Unfortunately, two days have been wasted, but they

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are out there now, and we are grateful for that. By this

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afternoon, sailing clubs, homes and offices, 200,000 people had signed

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an online petition calling for the search to be restarted. Tonight

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those at the pinnacle of sailing welcomed the decision. There is a

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long way to go in terms of finding the sailors in huge area, but if

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they are out there and in a life raft, there is a chance of survival,

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and whilst there is a chance, we should out there searching. So what

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next? This rescue of French yacht on the same day in the same part of the

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Atlantic shows what the US Coast Guard is capable of. 200 years of

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experience, they are among the best in the world. Other rescues have

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been more astonishing. Last year, Harrison Okene was trapped

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underwater for two and a half days off the coast of Africa before he

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was plucked out alive. Or this one, 17 years ago, when Tony Bullimore

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survived five days in an upturned boat in the Southern Ocean. Tonight,

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he welcomed the Coast Guard rethink. It is a shame that they pulled out

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48 hours ago. There could be a few questions asked over that. I am

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personally more interested to hear that the search is actually

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happening, and I hope that they get first-class results.

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If this is the keel of the Cheeki Rafiki, spotted by a merchant ship

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at the weekend, it could be a starting point for the new search,

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but the Coast Guard and the families know this is the Atlantic Ocean, and

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searching does not mean finding. Some of the families are off to the

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American Embassy in London tonight to thank officials there and also

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get more information on that search. We know that a plane has already

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taken off about three hours ago from East to, and it is about a three or

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four hour trip to the search site, so they should the arriving around

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about now. From the families, combine sense of relief that this

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whole operation is back on track. Duncan, thank you.

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There's concern that the economic recovery could be destabilised by

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rising house prices. The latest figures show average prices in the

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UK have risen by 8% in the 12 months to March. In London, average prices

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leaped by 17%. The soaring values means country-wide, houses are

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selling for 11 times typical earnings. Here's our economics

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editor Robert Peston. House-hunting in a part of London

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where prices are going through the roof. This has is on the market for

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20% more than similar houses were fetching a year ago, and this is not

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unusual. In the capital, less than six years after the crash, a

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dangerous bubble is in the making. I am scared. The mortgage payments are

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very high. I'm sure we will always manage them, but it is scary. And I

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think, if I am feeling like that, how all the other people feeling?

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Parts of the London property market aren't just red-hot, thou white hot.

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Here in Brent, prices have risen by a third in the last year, and estate

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agents have told me that in this road, rises have risen by two thirds

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over the past 18 months. London prices are now almost 25% higher

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than they were at their peak before the 2008 crash. In the south-east,

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they are 3.4% above that past maximum, but in the rest of the UK,

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they are still 4.4% below the previous high. So are there any

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signs of a bobble outside southern England, such as here in South

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Wales? Price rises over the last 12 months have been relatively modest.

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It is six or 7%. But whilst that is above inflation, we are certainly

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not seeing the rises of London and the south-east. Kate Barker used to

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be on the Bank of England committee that set interest rates. So if the

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Bank of England decides there is a housing market bubble, what can it

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do, short of raising interest rates? The bank isn't so much

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concerned about the housing market bubble, but they are concerned about

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responsible lending, and the thing they could do there is to ask

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lenders to hold more money against risky lending, and that would make

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it more expensive for lenders, and it would mean that there would be

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less lending. One bank, Lloyds, is taking evasive action, even without

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being forced to do so by regulators. Today it announced that it would no

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longer lend more than four times household incomes for houses over

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?500,000. That would have an impact on 8% of mortgages. But what is

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needed, most would say, is a lot more house-building.

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The trial of Rolf Harris has heard from the fourth and final alleged

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victim, who has waived her right to anonymity. Tonya Lee claimed the

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entertainer assaulted her repeatedly when she was 15 and on a tour with

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her youth drama group. Rolf Harris is charged with 12 counts of

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indecent assault, all of which he denies. David Sillito reports.

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Rolf Harris walked into court today to hear claims that took him back to

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events of 1980 X. -- 1986. At the time, he was a regular on

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television, and for young Australian theatre group, he was the surprise

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guest when they arrived in Britain full up in court, he listened to the

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claims of one member of that group, Tonya Lee. She was 15 at the time.

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Unusually, her name could be made Oblak, because 28 years later, she

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chose to Selhurst are to the media. In court, she spoke from behind a

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curtain. She told of an evening during the trip and she met Rolf

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Harris in the pub. She says she was indecently assaulted twice, once

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when he asked her to sit on his lap, and when she stepped out of the

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ladies to find him standing next to her.

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She eventually did tell police in 2012, but she also approached the

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media. She was asked about an interview with the police in which

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she told them she hadn't been talking to the media, hadn't been

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planning on selling her story. It was put to her, you looked that

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offers in the eye and told a barefaced lie, didn't you? And she

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answered, yes. But she said she was under pressure from her partner, is

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now set the whole issue of selling the story was a huge regret, a

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mistake. Rolf Harris denies all 12 charges. The trial continues. The

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Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has accused parties which don't

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support Britain's membership of the European Union of being unpatriotic.

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Mr Clegg was campaigning in Oxford ahead of the European and local

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elections on Thursday. Our political editor Nick Robinson spent the day

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with him. Getting ready for the school run,

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and another run-in with the Eurosceptics. That is how the day

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began in the Clegg household. I just checked to make sure I have what I

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need. Dignity Prime Minister claimed today that staying in Europe, not

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getting out, is what true patriots believe. We we go. In a church in

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Oxford today, he tried to answer those who accuse him of having blind

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faith in Brussels, insisting he was fighting for Britain against the

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narrow nationalists. It's about what kind of country do we think we

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should be in the modern world. Are we going to be open or closed?

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Tolerant or intolerant? Open-minded, generous spirited or

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cowering on the sidelines and mean-spirited? I asked the Lib Dem

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leader why he was insulting those who simply disagreed with him? I

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don't insult anyone who expresses totally legitimate fears about many

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of the uncertainties of the modern world. But you say they are not in

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the real world. No, when I say that Nigel Farage says that it would be

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good for Britain to pull out of the largest economy where we send 50% of

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our imports, I'm in title to say, hang on a minute, far from being

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good for Britain, far from being an active bulldog British Patrick is,

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this is something which would leave our country weaker and poorer and

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incapable of dealing with the challenges of the modern world. So,

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who do voters think is the bigger patriots, the leader who likes to

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down a pint and wave the flag, or the one who dares to speak up for

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Europe and Britain? Nigel Farage. Because? Because he believes in

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Britain, whereas Nick Clegg believes in Europe. Can't you believe in

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Europe and Britain? I do think you can. Can you passionately be for

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your country, and still believe in European unit? Yes, but I don't

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believe you can be patriotic clear favour of Britain without any

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against immigration. Nick Clegg believes staying in Europe, which

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committee told me, means keeping our borders open. We say, yes it is

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freedom to move across the European Union, that is obvious and has been

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part and parcel of the European Union from all time. But note abuse,

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no to exploitation and welfare, no to the freedom of movement of

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criminals. So if people think there are too many people coming in is not

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enough controls on who comes in, they can't vote for you? If they

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want to pull up from Bridgend put up a no entry sign, then vote for UKIP,

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-- pull up the drawbridge. But think what that means. A diminished

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ability of our police to go after criminals to cross borders. Nick

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Clegg doesn't need to read his tweets to know what message voters

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may set him on polling day. But his reply today was, you might not think

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so, but I am standing up for you. There's an area on our website

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dedicated to the European and local elections. It's called Vote 2014,

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and you can access it on your mobile, tablet or computer at

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bbc.co.uk/vote2014. Our top story. The US Coast Guard

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has resumed its search for four British yachtsman missing in the

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Atlantic. And understanding the First World War. The first of

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thousands of schoolchildren on a special programme to bid - Mac to

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visit the battlefields. Later on BBC London. The blaze which swept

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through Camden market. Stall holders are left counting the cost of the

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damage. A rare chance to see a perfectly preserved creature from

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the ice age. The baby mammoth unveiled at the natural history with

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museum. It's one of the biggest names on the

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high street, but Marks and Spencer has been struggling to keep its

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customers happy. The company has announced another fall in annual

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profits, for the third in year in a row. In the past 12 months they were

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down by 3.9%, leaving the bosses at M facing a huge task ahead. Our

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business correspondent Emma Simpson has more. At Marks Spencer they

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are already thinking about winter. And here is a glimpse of some of the

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key pieces they hope will be flying off the rails. To bring some

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much-needed sparkle into clothing, which has been in decline. Getting

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women's fashion back on track, it's absolutely vital for M It has

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been at the heart of a ?1 billion plan over the last three years to

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revitalise this whole business. So is it working? We asked two retail

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experts to give us their views. First up is M is starting to turn

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things around on the fashion and the shops? They have injected more

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fashion content to their ranges, you can see that in their stores. It's

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definitely an improvement but there's still a long way to go in

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order to really meet the customer needs. And what about the company's

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new look website, which customers are still getting used to. MNS has

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come from a position, especially online, from being behind. Its

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online business should be a lot bigger but they needed to put the

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investment in in order to be able to grow it. They are now hoping the

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sales will come through online. Everyone has got an opinion on this

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firm, but in the end it comes down to the shoppers. Views are mixed.

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Are like Marks and Spencers and I go there a lot but it's not as good as

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it used to be. I think they've got far too much in there. The price and

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the quality does make sense. You get quality for your money. I usually

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have a look about to see if there's anything but I can never find

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anything. And MNS still hasn't found its Mojo when it comes to hitting

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sales targets, with profits down yet again. It means no bonus for the

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staff the boss. The question is, when will all this investment start

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to pay off? It says it's making solid progress but there's an awful

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lot riding on this autumn winter collection. Emma Simpson, BBC News.

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Smokers who want to quit are much more likely to succeed if they use

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e-cigarettes, according to a new study. Researchers from University

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College London found e-cigarettes can increase the success rate by 60%

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compared to nicotine patches and gum or just willpower. Here's our health

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correspondent Branwen Jeffreys. This shop has only been open a year, part

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of an EC boom. Almost 2 million people are buying their nicotine

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hits this way. Little vials of liquid that vaporise in an

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electronic cigarette. Some, like Mark, hope this is a step towards

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stopping smoking. I'm hoping that eventually I can make the decision

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to give up nicotine altogether. At the moment, I'm a man of the 21st

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century and I can have my cake and eat it. I can smoke but not smoke at

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the same time. If I wanted to quit, I would transition myself with ease

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cigarettes. If you want to give it up, just put it down and don't come

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back to it. This research is based on nearly 6000 smokers. Around 20%

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quit with the help of e-cigarettes. Their chances of success were 60%

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better than those using patches, gum is all just willpower. Making

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experts optimistic that smoking rates will continue to fall. Smoking

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rates are coming down, the rates at which people are trying to stop

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smoking are going up. The rates that people are succeeding at stopping

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smoking are going up. The proportion of people who are using e-cigarettes

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who never smoked is extremely low. The nicotine is delivered in a

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vapour. You can buy e-cigarettes in corner shops but there is a design

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culture around expensive brands. Some types of e-cigarettes are very

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fashionable, but they remain intensely controversial. Some

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doctors argue they make a habit of smoking seem normal. And health

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campaigners say too little is known about long-term effects. They are

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not properly regulated at the moment. So we can't be absolutely

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sure what that toxic substances they have in them. While they are

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certainly less harmful than smoking, I wouldn't recommend someone who is

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not already a smoker to take them up. Tighter regulation is on its

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way, which might open the way for them to be used by the NHS. Branwen

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Jeffreys, BBC News. It's being seen as a make or break moment for an

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organisation which represents 125,000 police officers in England

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and Wales. The annual conference of the Police Federation started today

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and it will no doubt reflect on what's been a turbulent year. There

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was the Plebgate scandal, allegations of bullying and

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accusations from MPs that it functions like a medieval court.

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Matt Prodger has more. The police Federation has never been a teddy

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bear, and its annual get-together has been hostile to both government

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and change. But not this year. The Fed is almost repentant. We tried

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playing hardball with government. Our response was first one of

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shock, then verbally aggressive and finally crude and disrespectful. We

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targeted individuals rather than issues. The Federation is on its

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last warning here in Bournemouth, buffeted by wave after wave of

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controversy. It began with plebgate, the scandal whipped up by

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the Federation that forced a government minister, Andrew

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Mitchell, out of the Cabinet. Then there's the money. Too much of it

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sitting in the bank and to much more unaccounted for. And bullying. The

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symptoms, say critics, of an organisation out of control. We'd

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been told that the latest to be bullied was the Police Federation's

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own vice-chairman, a claim he dismissed. If I'd been a cop for 26

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years, it takes more than some robust conversations to concern me.

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What I'm about is moving the organisation forward. Others think

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it is the Police Federation that has been bullied by the outside world.

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In terms of where we are, we are battered. We've had a bruising time.

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Some of that has been mistakes we've made as an organisation, some of it

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has been a little unfair. But we're at a point where we can move

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forward, repair and better. The officials gathered here in

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Bournemouth basically have three days to make the organisation more

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democratic, more accountable and more transparent. If they don't,

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then the government says it will. So the biggest police organisation in

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the UK need knows it needs to do more than rearrange the deck chairs.

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Matt Prodger, BBC News in Bournemouth. The first of thousands

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of secondary-school children are commemorating the centenary of the

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First World War with special tours of the battlefields in Belgium and

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France. It's part of a Government programme whereby two children from

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every school in England will make the trip to gain a deeper

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understanding of the conflict and hopefully share their knowledge when

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they come home. Robert Hall is at Hyde Park in central London now.

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Hyde Park Corner is dotted with memorials to the casualties of war,

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but these commemorations are not just about remembrance. They are

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about bringing the events of 1914 to 18 alive for this generation.

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Schools are central, and I went along on the first of the new

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battlefield tours. What I found was a real sense of engagement. I'm

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going to be around over the next couple of days, helping you get the

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most from this battlefield tour. In a classroom in Ashford in Kent, two

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children from each of 30 schools are building personal connections with

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the past. Over the next three days, experts and technology will help

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them connect with the lives and deaths of those who fought in the

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Western Front. Sam and Regan found this man, Lance Corporal John

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Stracey, on the local war memorial. Seeing actual pictures and finding

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out everything about them, it gives more of a 3D effect of who they

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were. It's going to bring it alive to them. It will make them more in

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tune with their community and locality, and hopefully just give

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them even more of a passion for history. John Stracey died amongst

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half a million from both sides in the slaughter of Passchendaele. His

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body, like thousands of others, was never found. Tyne Cot Cemetery

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contains 12,000 graves and 33,000 names of the missing. Among them,

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the name which the boys were looking for. Oh, yeah, there's Stracey. If

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this were 100 years ago, we'd be going out to war as well. It's scary

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in a way, this could have been us. This project does not end on the

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Belgian battlefields. Have you been to Tyne Cot? Yes, about four years

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ago. Back in Surrey, Sam and Regan are sharing their research with

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83-year-old Jim Stracey, nephew of the soldier traced. Yeah, I think he

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would have been proud to have known this was happening. Perhaps he does,

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he might be up there. One story which has come full circle. Over the

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next four years, 8000 children will follow this battlefield trail, which

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combines remembrance with a deeper understanding. Robert Hall, BBC

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News. We've had some dramatic scenes

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across the country over the past couple of days, this picture was

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taken just off the coast of Aberdeen on Sunday night. For parts of

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Scotland we have had 23 degrees. Showers have been brewing in the

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last couple of hours, they will drift northwards. Thunderstorms

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mixed in with that. Behind it will be some clearer skies with the risk

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of some mist and fog forming by dawn. Not quite as warm as it was

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last night. Wednesday morning starts with a lot of cloud and rain sitting

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across the North West of Scotland. Away from that, dry and bright, any

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mist and fog should lift and clear. Bright skies across parts of

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northern England, down through Wales and the south-west corner. As we

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move into the South West, more cloud with the risk of some showers. In

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the south-east throughout much of Wednesday, that cloud with a few

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showers is likely to persist. We will keep the cloud and rain in the

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north-west. But in between those areas, most places will be dry, fine

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with some bright spells. The small risk of a shower. You will be

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unlucky if you catch one. Temperatures will reach highs of 18

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to 19 degrees. But then we start to see things brewing through Wednesday

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night and into Thursday. A low pressure system in the South has got

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the potential to bring some more widespread heavy and thundery rain

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our way. The risk of quite a difficult rush-hour at the moment.

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It looks like affecting parts of northern England, down through Wales

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and the south-west corner. It will drift northwards, allowing some

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drier weather with sunshine to follow on behind. The Northwest will

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see highs of around 13 to 14 degrees. A bit of cloud and the risk

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of a few showers. That's all from the BBC News

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