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Ukraine's soldiers suffer their biggest loss of life so far after an

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attack by pro-Russian separatists. 13 soldiers were killed, dozens more

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injured, at a checkpoint in the east of the country.

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Meanwhile, Prince Charles' reported comments likening President Putin's

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actions over Ukraine to those of Hitler anger the Russians.

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TRANSLATION: We consider the use the Western media have made of members

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of the British Royal Family in a propaganda campaign unacceptable,

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outrageous and dishonourable. We'll bring you the latest on the

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diplomatic spat and the worsening crisis in Ukraine. Also tonight:

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Royal Mail reports its first profits since privatisation but calls for an

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inquiry into the threat from its competitors.

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Figures out today show the number of people coming from the EU to live in

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the UK went up by over a quarter last year.

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SHE SPEAKS MANDARIN. And why more and more children are

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throwing themselves into learning Mandarin.

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Tonight on BBC London. Anger at the last-minute price hike

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making their affordable homes unaffordable.

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And bikers lead tribute to murdered Lee Rigby one year on from the

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soldier's death. Good evening and welcome to the BBC

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News At Six. Ukrainian soldiers have suffered the biggest loss of life so

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far during the crisis in the east of the country. 13 have been killed and

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dozens more injured in an attack by pro-Russian forces. There are just

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three days now until the country's presidential elections and the

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violence shows no sign of easing. The attack took place at a military

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checkpoint on the outskirts of the town of Volnovakha, 20 miles south

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of Donetsk. From there, our correspondent Mark Lowen reports.

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The attack came before dawn and with devastating effect. This was a

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Ukrainian army checkpoint, targeted in the deadliest assault on the

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military since this conflict began. At least 13 were killed and around

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30 injured in a well-planned strike. TRANSLATION: Three of my friends

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have fallen and I can't even collect their bodies. Their combat unit has

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been lying there in the field for 30 minutes already. Separatist groups

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are thought to have carried it out. They showed off their spoils, which

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they say they took from troops at the checkpoint. This unverified

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footage appears to show helicopters moving in after the incident. It is

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not confirmed to whom they belong to, but the video was shot in

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daylight and one Ukrainian soldier told us it was an operation against

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the separatists. At the local hospital, the dead kept coming as

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serious injuries proved fatal. Another body has just been taken out

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of his vehicle into the morgue. This is a terrible blow for the Ukrainian

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Armed Forces and a reminder of quite what these armed separatists are

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capable of doing. A Ukrainian general would talk only with his

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identity hidden, for fear of reprisals. They were professional

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killers, he told me, hired soldiers. They mowed down my men in

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15 minutes. They are doing it by money, not for patriotically deals.

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The Ukrainian government laid the blame at Moscow and its links with

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the armed groups in the East. TRANSLATION: This is a confirmation

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that Putin's words are a lie when he talks of withdrawing troops and not

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interfering in the internal affairs of Ukraine. In reality, Russia

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continues to adopt a very aggressive military activity. The attack comes

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three days before the Ukraine presidential elections that Kiev

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vows will also be held here. Separatist leaders say they will

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block it and the region is now independent. Could today have been a

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warning shot? Ukrainian forces secured the scene but in this battle

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for control, the volatile east is slipping further from their grasp.

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Prince Charles has upset Russia with comments he's reported to have made

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about Ukraine, in which he is said to have likened President Putin to

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Hitler. Moscow has called them "outrageous" and "unfit for a future

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monarch". Russia's Deputy Ambassador in London has been meeting with

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Foreign Office officials here this afternoon to seek an official

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explanation of the comments, which the Prince is reported to have made

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in private while visiting Canada. Our correspondent Frank Gardner

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reports. A harmless royal tour around a

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Canadian polar bear sanctuary, what could possibly go wrong? Well,

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comments made by Prince Charles during his Canadian tour have ended

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up touching a royal nerve in Russia. In a private, off-camera

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conversation in this building with a Polish born emigre, the Prince of

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Wales reportedly compared the actions of President Putin in the

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Ukraine to those of Adolf Hitler. Moscow first brushed it off, but by

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today, it had turned into a diplomatic row. President Putin,

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visiting Siberia today, as his own --lost his own brother in the Nazi

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invasion of Leningrad and a Russian spokesman called Prince Charles's

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comments outrageous. TRANSLATION: We consider the use

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that Western media have made of the British Royal family in a campaign

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against Russia on an acute international issue unacceptable,

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outrageous and dishonourable. The Russian Embassy in London

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demanded an official explanation. What was the air to the British

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throne doing apparently making such remarks? Russia asked for and got a

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meeting with the senior British diplomat. This cannot have been an

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easy conversation at the Foreign Office this afternoon. It started

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out as a complaint by the Russian deputy ambassador against Prince

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Charles's reported comments and developed into a much wider, robust

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discussion about the whole course of the events in Ukraine and Britain's

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dissatisfaction about Russia's activities there.

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Let's speak to our Diplomatic Correspondent Bridget Kendall, who's

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in Moscow for us this evening. These reported comments by Prince Charles,

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how may they aggravate the already poor relations between Russia and

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the West over Ukraine? We have heard from the Foreign

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Ministry in Russia this morning saying they would wait to see what

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they heard from the British Foreign Office before they decided if they

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should be any consequences. What we understand from the Foreign Office

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is that they said to the deputy ambassador that they cannot expect

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to comment on what our private conversations. Will Russia want to

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take it further? On the one hand, they have used strong language today

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and the other, they have blamed the British press for making too much of

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it. We have to remember that this isn't really about reported comments

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by Prince Charles, it is all about the deep rift between Russia and the

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UK and the rest of the West about Ukraine. There that clash in Ukraine

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today that amply demonstrated that, the two sides with diametrically

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opposed views and Kiev, backed by the West, will blame pro-Russian

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forces it thinks are influenced by Russia, whereas the West is

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worried. Russia says that while it thinks are Ukraine is carrying out a

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special operation against its own citizens, it can't possibly expect

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to have a proper election on Sunday. -year-old Bridget Kendall,

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thank you. Royal Mail has turned a profit in

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its first results since it was privatised. It's announced full year

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profits of ?671 million, a 12% rise. Nonetheless, it's warning its

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ability to fulfil the universal service obligation, its legal duty

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to deliver to all parts of the UK, could be under threat. It's urging

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the regulator Ofcom to look into the matter, saying it wants fresh

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measures to prevent competitors cherry-picking the most lucrative

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parts of the postal service. Our Business Editor Kamal Ahmed reports.

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This report contains some flashing images.

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From the north of Scotland to the tip of Cornwall, there has been a

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guaranteed postal service across Britain since 1839. Today, the Royal

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Mail said its ability to deliver that service and remain economically

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viable is coming under increasing strain. For those who rely on it,

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like the residents of Ogmore by Sea in rural Wales, a universal service

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is essential. A lot of older people in this community here rely on these

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services, a lot of people on their own. As far as I'm concerned, if

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they stop the mail coming to Ogmore, it would be an absolute disaster.

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New entrants like TNT have started delivery services in places like

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London, Manchester and Liverpool. With short distances and plenty of

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business mail, the big-city is aware there is money to be made. TNT

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deliver in urban areas around the country and they intend to expand

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that. They are increasing their market share and these are the areas

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that are easiest to deliver, leaving Royal Mail with its obligation to

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deliver six days a week everywhere in the country, including rural

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areas. The Government is slowly deregulating the market, encouraging

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competition and urging Royal Mail to cut costs. The stresses, Royal Mail

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says, are beginning to show. It's lucrative city centre routes like

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these that the Royal Mail's competitors would love to get a bite

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of. The Royal Mail says that without intervention by the regulator, its

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legal obligation to deliver to the whole of Britain could be

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undermined. It has to make money here to be able to support those

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difficult rural routes. The universal service is at the heart of

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the Royal Mail's business. It guarantees delivery six days a

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week. It includes all 29 million addresses in the UK. The Royal Mail

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alone delivers 13 billion letters a year. Competitors say the Royal Mail

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is crying wolf. This is typical Royal Mail whingeing. They have just

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delivered some record profits. TNT Post are delivering choice for our

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customers, which they want, and we are creating thousands of jobs, so

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we certainly no threat to the universal service and that is

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something the industry regulator, Ofcom, agrees with us. Royal Mail's

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share price fell today by nearly 10% as investors worried that increased

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competition could profits. -- could affect profits. After the

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controversy of the part privatisation last year, the

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business still has plenty of challenges ahead.

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One of the first DJs on Radio 1, Chris Denning, has been charged in

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connection with a series of alleged sex attacks on 22 boys, aged between

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nine and 16. The Crown Prosecution Service says the former DJ faces

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more than 40 charges, including 34 counts of indecent assault, over an

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18-year period until 1985. There's been a military coup in

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Thailand. Soldiers took control after two days of inconclusive talks

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between the country's rival political factions. This morning,

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soldiers surrounded the building where the talks were taking place

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and then took away the party leaders. TV broadcasting has been

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suspended, political gatherings are now banned and there is a nationwide

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curfew. It follows months of political turmoil in the country.

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From Bangkok, Jonathan Head sent this report.

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The Army club in Bangkok. Inside, rival political factions were

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holding reconciliation talks. Suddenly, the exits were blocked.

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Troops raced into position. Thailand was having another coup. The faction

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leaders were detained and taken away. And the man who had invited

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them here now runs the country. In time-honoured fashion, a new

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military council announced that the constitution was being suspended and

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a curfew imposed. General Prayut has now done what he has said many times

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would not solve the crisis, mounted a full military takeover, saying he

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has done it for peace and stability. Yet there was bound to be strong

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opposition. Most of all from supporters of the former Prime

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Minister, in what Shinawatra -- Yingluck Shinawatra, and her

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brother. The so-called Red Shirts. They have won every election for the

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past 15 years. Many of their leaders are now under arrest, but they have

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always said they would resist a coup, with force if necessary. The

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anti-government protesters, the so-called Yellow Shirts, have long

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been calling for military intervention. After seven months on

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the Bangkok streets, they can now go home. That leaves the soldiers to

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short -- sort out the chronically divided country. Their chances of

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success do not look promising. Figures out today show that the

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number of EU citizens moving to the UK has increased by 27% in 2013. And

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the Office of National Statistics also estimates that net migration -

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the difference between the numbers coming into the UK and the numbers

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leaving - has remained steady at just over 200,000. The Government's

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target is to bring that figure down to the tens of thousands by the next

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election. Reeta Chakrabarti is here to tell us more. Reeta.

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These figures come out every three months that they show that broadly

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speaking, migration in the UK remained static towards the end of

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last year, so net migration was 212,000 in December last year, and

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that remains unchanged from September. It is, however, twice as

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high as what the Government wants to see it at by this time next year. If

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you can bear the figures year on year, they also show that net

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migration went up by 35,000 on the previous year -- compere the

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figures. That is December 2012, with significantly more EU migrants

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coming in and proportionately fewer non-EU migrants. The focus at the

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moment is on Romanians and Bulgarians, when work restrictions

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were lifted at the beginning of this year. If you look at the figures

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there, they show 23,000 Romanians and Bulgarians came last year, up

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from 9,000 the previous year. Along with the statistics, there is

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another set of figures out today that show migrants applying for

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National Insurance numbers since the beginning of this year, so since the

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time the Romanians and Bulgarians have been given more freedom to

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work. They show the highest number of applications is from Romanians,

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that is 47,000 applications, up from 29,000 the previous year. And there

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are significant numbers of the Polish, Bulgarian and Italians

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applying. These are not people who are necessarily recent migrants,

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they may have been hipper sometime, but applying for National Insurance

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numbers gives them more access to work, access to benefits but means

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they would be paying taxes. Our top story this evening:

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Ukraine's soldiers suffer their biggest loss of life so far after an

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attack by pro-Russian separatists. Still to come: More planes join the

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efforts to find the missing sailors in the atlantic. We have the latest.

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Most patients who go to accident and emergency units do need urgent care

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- according to a study by A consultants. There are 14 million

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visits to emergency departments each year. A report for NHS England last

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year suggested that up to a quarter of people could have been treated

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elsewhere. But this latest study indicates only 15% could have been

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treated by their GP the following day. The difference between those

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two figures amounts to nearly one and a half million visits. This

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could affect where NHS money and resources are targeted in England as

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our health correspondent Dominic Hughes reports. It contains some

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flashing images. A across the UK are getting busier.

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More patients, many of them older people, are needing treatment. So

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how best to reduce the pressure on the services? This is the A

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Department... Here is an idea, trying to persuade people to think

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twice before turning to A, using local GPs or advice lines. But

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specialists argue that is not enough.

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Doctors saying that trying to redirect large numbers of patients

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away from A is not enough to release the pressure. They say that

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their research show that the vast majority of patients that arrive

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here need to be here. The A at North Manchester General is one of

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the busiest in the country. Here they are recruiting GPs to work as

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part of the emergency medicine team. We should have six consultants

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working, we have three. So we are adding four GPs into the mix,

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working at a senior doctor level will enable us to supervise the

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juniors and see the patients. Young children like Felix make up

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the biggest group of A patients that can be seen elsewhere but like

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many parents his mum did not hesitate to go to the hospital when

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he hit his head. With the kids you want to get it

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sorted straight away. When I have been there it is full of people with

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children. People want a quicker response.

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This is partly an argument about where the money is best-spent, in

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hospitals or the community services but neither option is likely to be

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cheap. The cost of treating patients in in

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a GP service is probably not that different from the A departments.

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But there is a practise that is suffering financially and in terms

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of the level demand that is being seen.

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NHS Patient says that a range of services can be used to help relieve

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the pressure. But people want fast care, that seems for most, the local

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A The BBC understands the Government

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will publish a report estimating that there are several billion

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barrels of oil contained in shale rocks beneath parts of Sussex,

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Hampshire and Kent, but only a fraction of it is likely to be

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recovered through fracking. That compares to around 45 billion

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barrels of oil that's been extracted from the North Sea over the past 40

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years. Our industry correspondent John Moylan is here. John, you found

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out about this, what more can you tell snubs There is a lot of gas in

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shale rocks in the north of Englandment tomorrow we learn

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details of a study that looks at the south of England to tell us that

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there are several billion barrels of oil in place across the areas you

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mentioned, Kent, Sussex. That is a lot of oil. Not as much as the north

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sea, and only fraction may be economic to get out but it is likely

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to be enough to attract the attention -- attention of the

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fracking industry. There will be a concern to environmentalists, who

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worry about the earth tremors and pollution but the estimate could

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have implications for our long-term security.

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Voting is underway in the European and local council elections - the

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final big test of public opinion before the 2015 General Election.

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All 73 UK seats in the European Parliament - the EU's only directly

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elected body - are up for grabs. The results will be announced on Sunday.

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Meanwhile 4,216 seats on local councils across England and Northern

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Ireland are also being decided. David Dimbleby will be your guide to

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the local council results as the votes are counted tonight. Join him

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and the BBC's team of experts from 11.35pm on BBC One. The search for

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the four sailors missing in the Atlantic since Friday has been

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boosted by extra air support. More planes have now joined the sea

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search for any sign of the men or their yacht. Earlier debris was

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spotted in the search area, raising hopes, but the US Coast Guard says

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it's unrelated to the yacht. The men were sailing back to Southampton

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from a regatta in Antigua last week. Contact was last made about 1,000

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miles off Cape Cod. Duncan Kennedy reports. These are the first

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pictures from the search scene in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Taken on board a private yacht that has gone to help, they show the calm

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conditions. Visibility is also appearing to be looking good.

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Exhausted and running short of supplies, it was this skipper who

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found the debris, near to where the men went missing. He says it

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includes a small piece of wood. We did see during this night some

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debris. I have reported it to the US coastguard with the time and the

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position. So there is a little bit of light at the end of the tunnel.

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News of the find was given to the relatives of the missing men who

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have been in London. First at the Foreign Office and then at the

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American embassy, there to get a comprehensive briefing of what is

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happening. At the are continuing to do what

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they can. They have been fantastic. It is all very reassuring.

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Whilst the US coastguard has cast doubt about the debris, it is still

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co-ordinating a huge search operation, with at least four

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aircraft and five boats now at the scene. The Cheeki Rafiki sent out a

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distress call before contact was lost.

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Andrew Bridge, James Male, Paul Goslin and Steve War en have been

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missing for almost a week. This afternoon I spoke to the skipper of

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another yacht that arrived at the search location, 1,000 miles off the

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coast of America. There are obviously a lot of

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families listening and watching this, what is your message to them?

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Have hope. That is all that we have. There are a lot of resources on out

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here. The US coastguard has pulled out everything. As long as there is

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hope, you keep it. That is why we are here. Let's hope we get a good

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result. These first grainy shots from the

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Atlantic, show exhausted crew members but conditions almost

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perfect for searching. 12,000 square miles have been scoured, the scale

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of the effort matched only by the open hopes of the families.

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Those pictures are the first time that the family have seen the area.

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They will take comfort from that. Especially with the calm seas. It is

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nearly a week since the men went missing, there has never been more

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resources dedicated to it. I am sure that they will take

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comfort from that as well. Now for most of us, not only does

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this not make sense, we would not know how to pronounce it.

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But many tomorrow are beginning GCSE Mandarin exams.

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We have been back to school... Ready for launch. A language class with a

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difference. By the time that these 11-year-olds

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leave school, China may well be the world's largest economy. They are

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throwing themselves into the language.

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I enjoy writing the characters and learning the tones. In English,

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there is always exceptions to the rules, in the Chinese they follow

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the rules, I like that. Good that they like it, as at this

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school in Hampshire, they are doing Mandarin emersion... The strange

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thing is, it is not just the Chinese that improves, they are ahead of

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their peers across the board. The students have to learn to

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concentrate hard and to be resilient and persevere. These are very

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important transferrable skills to use and apply to benefit other

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aspects of study. So, I have been trying to learn

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Chinese on and off for most of the past 30 years. To tell you the

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truth, I find it really hard it is partly the Chinese characters, and

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getting the tones and reproducing the redifferent sounds. But if you

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start at this age it comes much more easily.

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So, are we doing enough to talk to a country of over 1 billion? Despite a

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consensus amongst politicians and schools on the need, the numbers are

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small. Just over 3,000 sat Mandarin GCSE last year. French is almost 60

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times as popular. A minority of schools offer Chinese but teachers

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are hard to find and good marks are hard to come by. On the other side

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of the world, Chinese customers but British gallery and staff. Six years

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ago, Holly did not speak a word of Mandarin, now Beijing is her home.

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I would not have had the opportunities I have today if I did

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not speak Chinese. I know people who have come here without Chinese but

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it is a very different life you live if you don't speak Chinese in China!

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From September, language learning is compulsory for seven-year-olds in

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England. Perhaps some will follow in Holly's foot steps, sealing deals in

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the UK in China. Neil Lennon has confirmed he has

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left Celtic after four years as manager. Lennon played for the club

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for seven years before taking charge in 2010, leading them to three

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league titles and two Scottish Cups. Time for a look at the weather.

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Here's Peter Gibbs. We have had lightening striking today. There is

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a line of wet weather running up to the Midlands, to the area of

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Yorkshire, so thunder storms here. They will fade away but then the

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showers pushing from Wales and the south. That rain that has been

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plaguing Scotland is sticking around and there is a chilly wind blowing

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in, where the lowest temperatures will be. But a relatively mild night

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elsewhere. On to Friday morning. We have rain to contend with, all the

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way from the Channel Islands up to the south-west of England, into

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Wales and to the Midlands. There is a potential for heavy downpours

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there. Not so much rain in the east of

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England. But the north-east is the exception. Over Scotland and the

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north of England cloudy skies and the breeze. Struggling to get rid of

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the rain in the north of Scotland. It never quite let's up.

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Over the north of Wales, some heavy showers. To the east starting to

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brighten up, allowing sunshine to come through. Where you get the

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sunshine, you get up to the high teens. A chilly day, though, for the

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north-east of England and eastern Scotland.

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A bank holiday weekend is coming up. Lots of showers to start with over

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England and Wales. By Sunday and by the bank holiday Monday it is

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looking pretty good. So a showery start to the weekend, some sunshine

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filtering through. By Monday feeling warm for all.

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