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European leaders gather tonight in boroughs toast work out how to

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respond to shock of the anti-EU election results. David Cameron

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arrives this evening, he say it is can't be business as usual. Brussels

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has got too big, too bossy too interfering. We need more for nation

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states. It should be nation states where possible. Europe only where

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necessary. Labour and the Liberal Democrats try to form late their own

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response to win back response. Also tonight: Are -- Rolf Harris begins

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his defence against allegations of sexual abuse and even breaks into

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song. The bank that likes to say yes is up for sale. With a flotation on

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the stock market. The missing Nigerian schoolgirls. Now the army

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claims it knows where they are, but it's too dangerous to rescue them.

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Ahead of the Tour de France's arrival in Yorkshire, lessons from a

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veteran in his 80s on the effects of endurance cycling. Tonight, on BBC

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London. As counting continues at Tower Hamlets there are allegations

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of intimidation during the local election. And, "every parents

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nightmare", how a judge described a former teacher who sexually

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assaulted children. Good evening and welcome to the BBC

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News at Six. The Prime Minister has arrived in Brussels along with other

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national leaders to discuss the implications of the weekend's

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sweeping electoral gains by anti-EU parties. David Cameron has already

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said Brussels is too big and too bossy and that the EU must change in

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response to the victory of parties such as UKIP. Our Europe editor,

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Gavin Hewitt, is in Brussels for us this inning. Evening. Are we likely

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to see change? It's an informal dinner and one of the more important

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European gatherings. How will Europe's leaders respond to the fact

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that a significant number of voters turned against the European

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establishment? There is lots of talk here of change, but whatle exactly

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do they have in mind? Late afternoon, with the leaders

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motorcades began sweeping into Brussels for an inquest into an

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election that saw huge gains by eurosceptic parties. David Cameron

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was quick to push an agenda for change. The European Union cannot

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just shrug off these results and carry on as before. We need change.

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We need an approach that recognises that Europe should concentrate on

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what matters, on growth and jobs and not try to do so much. We need an

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approach that recognises that Brussels has got too big, too bossy

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to interfering. The French President, Francois Hollande, said

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he was looking to reorientate economic policy towards growth and

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protecting jobs. In Brussels, all eyes were on the German Chancellor,

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Angela Merkel, now more influential than ever. Will she back an EU doing

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less, but better? Will she respond to voters turning against austerity?

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Some of the election winners have been setting out their approach in

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the new European parliament. Here is the French far right leader, Marie

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Le Pen. Our objective is to block with our elected members all harmful

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developments by the European Union which involves defending the

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interests of France and the interests of French. In a sign of

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the new tension that exists. The powerful German Finance Minister

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today denounced her party as fascist. Another victor, Nigel

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Farage, was back in Broughsels, looking for allies but rejecting any

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alliance with Le Pen. There is no chances at all of any accommodation

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of any kind being found between UKIP and the French National Front. It

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won't be easy over dinner tonight. David Cameron does see an

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opportunity and he does have allies in arguing that what Europe needs is

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less Brussels and doing things better. On the other hand, we also

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heard another leader coming in today saying - you know the eurosceptic

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surge when the economy improves. It will be difficult tonight reaching

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an agreement as to what to do. Fiona. OK, Gavin, in Brussels, thank

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you very much. Here, as party leaders absorb the shock of UKIP's

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surge in the European elections, they have been setting out how they

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intinned to claw back support. The Liberal Democrat leader, Nick

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Clegg,, insists he won't stand down. Ed Miliband says it's

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"understandable" people worry aboutle immigration, but leaving

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Europe is not the answer for Britain. The Labour leader was

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speaking in Thurrock, where his party lost control of the council on

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Thursday. This report from our Carole Walker has flash photography.

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Territory where UKIP is making serious in-roads. Thurrock is a key

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target for Labour. A seat it must seize if it is to win the general

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election, but where the party has just is lost control of the council.

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Ed Miliband said he had listen #d to voters concerns, but therwill be no

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move to the right on immigration. I'm on the side of immigrants.

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Immigration benefits our country. I'm proud to say immigration

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benefits our country. I think you know here you have to engage people

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on the issue of immigration, saying what you can do and what you can't

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do. I totally agree with you though, that part of the key to this is to

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show there is a different vision of the future. The man who won three

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elections for Labour said that's the right approach. Many of those people

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who come in as immigrants to our country are creative, innovative,

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hard-working diligent and contribute to our economy. If Labour was to go

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down and (inaudible) UKIP it would be a massive mistake and wouldn't

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bring us many votes in my view. The message on immigration is not

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getting through to voters. That was apparent from some we spoke to. I

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used to vote for Labour, but I don't vote any more. I don't think they

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take the imgays seriously. Maybe now they are taking - looking at what

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people think. I think everyone is upset with how the country is going

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at the moment. I think that is why everyone everyone is doing the UKIP

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thing. Even though I don't think it's the right decision. I voted for

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UKIP. I believe there is too much immigration over here. The yes. It's

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a small country. We are getting over populated. Ed Miliband is promising

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a radical and bold offer at the next election. The questions he faced

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here certainly youing ises he has work to do if he is to win back

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voters in places like this, who feel the established parties are simply

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not addressing their concerns. We met two young Labour members who

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said the problem is not just the message, it's the man. He's not on

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Tony Blair's type of level of attracting voters. I still think - I

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don't believe he's good at the propaganda side of things. He

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doesn't really get across to us as much as previous. He is still

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decent. Yeah. The Lib Dem leader is under pressure too to show how he

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will reconnect with voters. He says he won't stand down or change his

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pro-European stance despite his party's drubbing at the polls. It

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has been a massive setback for us last week. We were right to stick to

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our values and right to seek to make that case. No-one else was doing it.

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No-one else is doing it in British politics. The votes of Essex man and

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woman could be critical in deciding the next election. This could well

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be a popular destination for all the party leaders in the year ahead.

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Carole Walker, BBC news, Thurrock. Our political editor, Nick Robinson,

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is in Westminster for us. Nick, it's clear the main parties have their

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work cut out to, a, win back support and, b, make headway in Europe? That

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is right. Each in their own way, of the party leaders, are trying to

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move they get it, they heard the anger of sectors of the electorate.

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David Cameron talking tough in Brussels. Ed Miliband conceding that

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Labour had lost the link with the very people who founded the Labour

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Party, the link with what we used to call the working-classes and he now

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calls working people. It's Nick Clegg who is fighting for his job

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tonight. Extraordinary development, Vince Cable, the Business Secretary,

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a Liberal Democrat of course, has just released a statement condemning

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one of his own friends, his own allies, for paying for an opinion

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poll designed to show that he, Vince Cable, would do a better job as

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leader of the Liberal Democrats than Nick Clegg. That he would be more

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likely to persuade people to vote for the party. Dr Cable has just

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said it was "totally inexcusable and unacceptable, there is no leadership

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issue as far as I'm concerned". He may think that. There clearly is

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one. My hunch is Nick Clegg will survive and can survive, but his

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party persists in talking about whether he should. Nick Robinson, at

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Westminster, thank you. Rolf Harris has denied abusing a friend of his

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daughter's as he began his defence against charges of indecent assault.

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Mr Harris, who is 84, described the early years of his career, even

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breaking into song. He described himself as a "touchy-feely" kind of

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person, but denied prosecution claims he had abused four girls

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between 1968 and 1986. From Southwark Crown Court, David

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Sillito, sent this report. Rolf Harris arrived as he has done every

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day during this trial, with his wife and daughter. There were more

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cameras today because this was finally his chance to speak. It was

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going to be a day of revelations. Some of the most painful and

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embarrassing secrets of Rolf Harris' life. He was questioned about how he

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had become a star. His songs, he treated the jury to a brief burst of

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Jake the Peg. # There's the Jake the Peg... #

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It moved on to his personal life. His home in south London and a

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friend of his daughter, who they took on holiday when she was 13. In

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court, Rolf Harris was asked if he had indecently assaulted her. She

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said, no. It was put to him: The alleged victim said that you hugged

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her, and she found it creepy. Have you hugged her? Yes I'm a

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touchy-feely person. In a sexual way or not? No. He admitted they did a

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sexual relationship. He sat down. His votes was quiet her. He said - I

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find it very hard to discuss this. It's very embarrassing, a married

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man, a much younger girl. I shunneden have been doing it. He was

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asked, did she appear to be a willing participant or not? He said,

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she did. On the other charges he said he had never been to the

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Portsmouth Community Centre where one woman said she had been

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assaulted. The allegation in Cambridge, he said he was in Canada

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at the time. All the charges were denied. The friend of his daughter

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he said it was a betrayal. He said he felt sickened by what he'd done.

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David Sillito, BBC News, Southwark Crown Court. The police have begun

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an investigation into attempts to fix a World Cup friendly between

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Scotland and Nigeria that is due to be played in London tomorrow. The

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Scottish Football Association have been contacted by the National Crime

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Agency. With more, Daniel Boettcher is at Craven Cottage for us, where

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the game is due to be played. Daniel, what more can you tell us

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abouts it? Tomorrow evening, between Nigeria and Scotland, as part of

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Nigeria's preparation for the World Cup, it appears that the game was

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red flagged. Some kind of alert was raised. Whether it was due to

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monitoring to betting or intelligence we don't know. The NCA

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acted. The Scottish FA is meeting with the authorities and will

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prepare for the match as normal. There is no suggestion that any

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individual involved in the game is under suspicion. The game, as far as

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we know, will continue as planned tomorrow evening. Thank you very

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much. Sorry. We had a few technical problems. Shares are to be sold in

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the high street bank, TSB, for the first time in nearly 20 years.

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Lloyds Banking Group, which owns TSB, will float a quarter of the

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shares on the stock market next month and the rest will be sold off

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entirely by the end of next year to create a new challenger bank. The

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sale is a condition of the agreement struck with the Government when it

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bailed out Lloyds after the banking crash. Here's our business

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correspondent, Simon Jack. You may have noticed the return of an old

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brand to the high street. TSB is back. Lloyds is sell Egg selling it

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to the public with the first 25% of shares up for grabs next month. The

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new TSB is selling itself on back to basics banking, the kind it did 200

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years ago. The new TSB will start life with 631 branches across the

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country from which it will serve 4.5 million customers, a number it hopes

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to grow. That makes it the seventh biggest bank in the UK. Starting

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life with millions of current account customers gives it a massive

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advantage over the rest of the new entrance. Why? We are still very

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reluctant to change our current account. I have been with them for a

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very long time. I am very happy with them. It's a case of trusting

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people. I have two bank accounts. I'm very happy with them. You become

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lazy and can't get bothered. Unless some spectacular offer was

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introduced to us. There are quite a few new kids on the block. TSB will

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have to work hard. There Are small players out there with distinctive

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offers like Metro Bank and the supermarket banks. TSB is

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essentially a clone of Lloyds. I find it difficult to understand what

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it will bring to the market that is distinctive. It's hoped small

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investors will buy a fifth of the shares. Those who hang on to them

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for a year will get a loyalty bonus. In a more crowded market, a new bank

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will needed to hang on tos old customers. Simon Jack, BBC News.

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The top story this evening: David Cameron's in Brussels for talks with

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EU leaders on how to respond to the european election results. And still

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to come... UEFA launches an investigation into the treatment of

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a disabled Chelsea football fan. Later on BBC London. The smash and

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grab raid in which thieves stole ?150,000 worth of luxury goods And

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could Spurs be on the verge of signing this man as their new

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manager? Senior military leaders in Nigeria

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claim that they know where more than 200 schoolgirls, kidnapped by a

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militant Islamist group, are being held. They won't reveal the exact

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location where Boko Haram are holding the girls and they've ruled

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out using force to free them saying it's too dangerous. They were taken

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six weeks ago from their school in Chibok in the northern state of

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Borno. It's thought they're being held somewhere in the Sambisa forest

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reserve - an area 16 times the size of London - near the border with

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Cameroon. Will Ross reports on the latest developments from the

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capital, Abuja. There has been no sign of the abducted girls since

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this video was released by Boko Haram more than two weeks ago. All

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very embarrassing for the military which had deployed ground troops and

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surveillance planes. But when a crowd turned up in support of the

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much criticised military, it was announced that the girls had finally

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been located. The good news is that we know where the girls are but we

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cannot tell you. We cannot comment on specifics. Leave us alone, we are

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working and will get the girls back. He did suggest using force to get

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the teenage students out would be too risky to try. This is what is

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left of the school in Chibok from where the girls were seized. They

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were taken in the middle of the night and loaded onto trucks. A

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father whose daughters are missing told the BBC what he made of the

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latest news on the military. TRANSLATION: I used to be completely

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downhearted but now that we have some information about their

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whereabouts, we are beginning to feel comforted. The government

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should do everything it can to secure their release alive. The news

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may be seen as a breakthrough but there are plenty of people who are

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reluctant to take official statements at face value. In

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churches and mosques, Nigerians keep praying for the return of the girls

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and an end to the relentless violence. Almost 500 people have

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been killed by Boko Haram since the girls were abducted six weeks ago.

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Using the military is of course not the only option available to the

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government. The BBC has learned that negotiations have been attempted

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with Boko Haram and a deal was almost struck that would have seen

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50 of the girls released in exchange for setting free 100 Boko Haram

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prisoners, but that government backed out of the deal at the 11th

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hour. More marches and demonstrations are planned. On the

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city streets across Nigeria, the calls to bring back our girls alive

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ring out. Ukraine says its troops now control

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the main airport in the eastern city of Donetsk after a fierce battle

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with pro-Russian militants. The separatists seized the airport

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yesterday - they say more than 30 of their fighters have been killed.

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Ukraine's new President, Petro Poroshenko, has vowed to tackle the

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eastern uprising within hours not months. Russia has called for an

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immediate end to military action. Pope Francis has announced he will

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meet a group of people who were sexually abused by the clergy at the

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Vatican next month. Speaking after his Middle East tour, the Pope said

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he would show zero tolerance for anyone in the Roman Catholic Church

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who abuses children. The church has been strongly criticised in the past

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for covering up accusations of abuse to protect its priests. Here's our

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Diplomatic Correspondent James Robbins. He keeps breaking new

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ground. Flying home from the Middle East, Pope Francis promised a hugely

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symbolic first meeting with victims of sexual abuse by priests.

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TRANSLATION: In the first days of June, I will have a mass with six to

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eight people who have been abused and then they will have a meeting

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with me. Two are from Germany and two are from England or Ireland, I

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am not sure, and others as well. On this issue, we must go forward,

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forward, zero tolerance. So what is the first reaction from victims?

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Inevitably, mixed. Kate Walmsley was abused by a priest in Derry

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repeatedly from the age of eight. My childhood was taken away from me,

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you know? Really, really bad, and I do not want to go and see the Pope

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and kiss his ring, and bow down to him and things like that because I

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do not believe he is any higher than any other victims. The sexual abuse

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of children by priests was rarely discussed in public before the

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1970s. It was not until the 1980s that the first cases came to light

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in the United States and Canada. In the '90s, revelations by the

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American priest John Geoghan caused public outrage. In 2009, reports

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revealed thousands of victims of abuse in Ireland, stretching back

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decades. The next year, it emerged the head of the Irish Catholic

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Church Cardinal Sean Brady had interviewed children who had been

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abused. He is accused of telling them to keep silent about it. The

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Catholic Church is still under enormous pressure to abandon any

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appearance that abusers or those who covered up for them can still get

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away with it. Pope Francis has used the words "zero tolerance" and there

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are plenty of people waiting to judge the extent to which he lives

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up to that promise. When a Chelsea fan who also happens to be in a

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wheelchair went to cheer on her team at a game in Paris, she didn't

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expect to be placed with jeering home fans, let alone spat on and

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have bottles thrown at her. But sadly her experience is not that

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unusual - the incident is being investigated by UEFA and could have

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implications for clubs in the Premier League. Katie Gornall

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reports. A glamour tie in the Champions League between two of the

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richest clubs in the world. Almost Chelsea fans, this was a chance to

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enjoy the surroundings and cheer on their team. These supporters were

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denied the chance because they were sat in the wheelchair section. There

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were ten of us and thousands of them. We thought, we are not going

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to get out of here. At that point, I thought, this is going to get worse.

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Somebody is going to get to is the injured and it seemed like hell. It

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seemed like I was sitting in hell. Lisa and other disabled fans were

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forced to sit just yards away from the Paris St Germain crowd. They

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were left terrified. I have seen her get upset before but she was shaking

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and crying and I could not calm her down. It made me really angry. UEFA

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is investigating and the team is facing a partial stadium closure if

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found guilty of discrimination. Here at Manchester City, disabled

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supporters are always looked after and always sat with their own fans

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but campaigners say that is not the case elsewhere in the Premier

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League. Last season, five clubs sat away fans with opposing supporters,

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this happened at Aston Villa, Liverpool, Manchester United, Spurs

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and West Ham. Clubs should be treating disabled fans exactly the

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same. They are the people who pay their wages, let them be part of the

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game. UEFA and Harry St Germain have declined to comment while the

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investigation is ongoing. The dry for change continues. -- Harry St

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Germain. The world's greatest cycling race, the Tour de France,

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will begin - in Yorkshire - this summer. Sir Bradley Wiggins, Chris

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Froome and Mark Cavendish are among those hoping to compete in one of

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the most gruelling events in sport. But what effect does such endurance

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exercise have on the body? Our medical correspondent Fergus Walsh -

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who's a keen cyclist - has tried to find out, and began by meeting one

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of the heroes of British cycling. Yorkshire born and bred, Brian

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Robinson is still cycling at 83. He is a true sporting icon, the first

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Briton to finish the Tour de France, and the first to win a stage of the

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race. Hello, Brian. Hello. Nice to go for a bike ride. It is great,

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isn't it? FRENCH COMMENTARY.

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This was Brian in 1959, finishing 20 minutes ahead of the rest of the

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field after a gruelling 126 mile stage, one of the biggest winning

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margins in tour history. More than half a century later, the tour is

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coming to Yorkshire. He will be there and hopes he has more years of

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cycling to come. I can recommend it and they do say that it puts ten

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years on your life. If it gives me another ten years, I will be happy!

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Elite cyclists are among the fittest people on the planet. One small

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study suggested they live eight years longer than the general

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population but the same may not be true for the growing army of

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Lycra-clad amateurs. When you're doing a climb like this it does not

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feel that good for your health but what effect does this sort of

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continuous endurance exercise have on the body? At the University of

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Kent, scientists tested older endurance cyclists like me and

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pushed them to the limit on the bike. Well done. Well done. That was

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tiring! They found their heart health was as good as fit adults

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decades their junior. That means you are at a lower risk of having

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vascular disease and will also lower your risk of a fatality. So your

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advice to the middle aged men in Lycra is to keep cycling? Continue

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what you are doing. That is my best win. It is a big race. Brian

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Robinson is living proof of the benefits of cycling and says his

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only health problems have been when he has fallen off his bike. Time for

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a look at the weather with Louise Lear.

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he has fallen off his bike. Time for a look at the weather with Half term

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week continues and I suspect there have been skies like this across

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eastern England. It has been pretty miserable indeed. The wettest

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weather will be in the east with brighter skies perhaps if we are

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lucky. There has been this rain spilling in off the North Sea,

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winning a fair amount of rain in. Summer showers in the West, some

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thundery. There have been glimpses of sunshine, not a bad afternoon

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across the West and North East Scotland, but underneath the cloud,

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that rain keeps on coming. There is another conveyor belt of wet weather

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tonight 's -- tonight, particularly towards the east of the Pennines.

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Tomorrow will be a great start but predominantly dry in the south.

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Hopefully, a little bit of brightness in the south-west. That

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rain will sit across North Wales, the Midlands and through eastern

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England with a brisk easterly winds, making it feel quite cool. A level

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of uncertainty just how far north this rain will go, potentially

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pushing into southern Scotland. The far north of Northern Ireland, it

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starts off largely fine and dry. You will see showers develop in Northern

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Ireland is. You can see the grey, wet afternoon here. To the north and

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south, a little bit brighter with highs of 17 degrees, lighter winds

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in the south-west. As we move on to Thursday, that weather front sits

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there. The weather front will decay somewhat. Signs of something a

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little warmer with 19 degrees and drier weather. Thank you. A reminder

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of our main story... David Cameron is in Brussels for talks with EU

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leaders about how to respond to the European election results. That's

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all from the BBC News at Six - so it's goodbye from me and

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