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More than 100 Palestinians are killed in Gaza, after 24 hours

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of intense bombardment by Israel. The shelling has continued this

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afternoon, after 60 airstrikes overnight, with Israel targeting

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sites linked to Hamas. Gaza's only power plant goes up

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in flames in the bombing. Israel says it is hitting a number

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of what it calls terrorist targets, this is Hamas infrastructure.

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in flames in the bombing. We'll be looking

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at why a solution to the conflict is proving so difficult. Also tonight:

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New curbs on welfare for some EU migrants - the amount

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of time they can claim benefits will be halved from six months to three.

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After the downing of Malaysian Airlines plane, the EU agrees new

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economic sanctions against Russia. And at the height of the summer sun,

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a warning that coastal erosion is making Britain's beaches disappear.

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And it's gold for England in the men's team gymnastics at the

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Commonwealth Games, with Scotland landing an historic silver medal.

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Polluting vehicles could have to pay an extra ?10 in London. Tower

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Hamlets Mayor fails to stop a legal challenge to overturn his election.

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Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

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More than 100 Palestinians are said to have been killed

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in Israeli air strikes on Gaza, after one of the bloodiest days

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of the conflict so far. Israel carried out 60 air strikes

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overnight, targeting sites associated with

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Hamas - the Islamist group which controls Gaza - and its bombardment

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continued this afternoon. A number of members of the UN Relief

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and Works Agency were also among the dead.

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Since the current conflict began, 1,156 Palestinians have been killed.

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55 Israelis have been killed, most of them soldiers.

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Israel's Prime Minister has warned that the conflict will continue as

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long as Hamas threatens his country. In a moment we'll have

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the latest from Jerusalem, but first this report from our correspondent

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Ian Pannell, who is in Gaza. Gaza trembled with the fury of war

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last night. Israel warned it would act aggressively. It did. People

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were forced from their homes. Out into a city with few safe places to

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hide. Israel wants to into a city with few safe places to

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anyway it can, which includes hitting Gaza's only power station.

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Adding to the misery of those who lived here. Through the night and

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into the day. Across large parts of the Gaza strip, the bombing is

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relentless. It is still early in the morning in Gaza, there were a large

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number of attacks overnight and they are continuing throughout the day.

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Israel says it is hitting a number of what it calls terrorist targets,

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this is Hamas infrastructure. They belong to the militants but as we

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have already seen civilians are increasingly being caught in the

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crossfire. The front line edges ever closer, as whole neighbourhood is

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empty. Today, one more family fled. Tens of thousands of people have

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already been forced from their home. Others have been buried beneath

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them. Neighbours and family scramble to rescue the injured and the dead.

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More than 100 people were killed last night, people have suffered and

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they have grieved and so far it has brought them nothing, not even

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funerals here are sacred. Neither are mosques. Israel says they have

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been used to hide weapons, but if this is supposed to weaken people 's

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resolve, it doesn't. We have been in blockade for the last seven years,

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we have been deprived all this for the last seven years, don't talk to

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me about rockets that are so tiny, small. Look at this, look at this.

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Entire areas of Gaza are being obliterated, both sides are under

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pressure to talk. Rumours swirl of possible deals. All the while, the

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conflict grows. 500 more people sought shelter at this school last

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night. It already houses thousands. One of them was born at 5am today.

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Ibrahim. His new home is a classroom he and his mother share with 80

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others. After eight years waiting for him to come, she says, we are

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now living here, in the school. The more they lose, the more they are

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determined it should be for a reason.

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Ian Pannell, who is in Gaza. We can speak to our correspondent

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Jon Donnison in Jerusalem now. Israel warned today of a long

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campaign ahead, today felt like it ratcheted up. That's right, it is

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Sturt and the ramping up, not down, and the Israeli government are

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saying they are increasing pressure on Hamas everyday and they are

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continuing to focus in particular on its tunnel network. We had news this

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evening from the Israeli military that a group of Hamas fighters had

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crossed through a tunnel into Israel before opening fire. They were

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apparently killed. We have the funerals of ten Israeli soldiers

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killed yesterday, bringing the total number to 53, and really the

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Government has overwhelming support to continue its operation. There is

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actually a rally happening in Tel Aviv this evening, calling for the

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Government as they put it to finish the job, and it will be interesting

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to see how many people turn out. We had a peace rally at the weekend, it

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got just a few thousand, and any sort of truce that will last seems

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very remote. Jon Donnison in Jerusalem now.

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International efforts to persuade both sides to accept a ceasefire, or

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at least a pause in the fighting, are still going on, after the

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breakdown of several previous truces. But stopping the fighting is

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proving very difficult. To explain why, here's our Diplomatic

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Correspondent, James Robbins. Why is it so difficult? Several

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reasons but particularly the depth of the mistrust between Israel and

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Hamas, which controls Gaza. They have conflicting aims in this as you

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might expect. For Israel the overwhelming priority is to disarm

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Hamas, to destroy its rocket arsenal and its tunnel network which allows

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Hamas militants to get underground into Israel to launch attacks. On

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the Hamas side the overwhelming priority is to extract from Israel a

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commitment to lift this is a commitment to lift this 80 year

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blockade, and to extract that concession before a cease-fire, not

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after, because Hamas is suspicious it will not be delivered otherwise.

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There is also mistrust tween Israel and of course its leading ally, the

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United States. A lot of bad blood between Benjamin Netanyahu and

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President Obama and John Kerry. Today John Kerry has been trying to

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repair some of that, to try to suggest that actually Israel really

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wants a cease-fire but on whose terms? It has proved very difficult

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to break through this. Correspondent, James Robbins.

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There are to be new curbs on the length of time EU migrants

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can claim unemployment benefits. From November, EU nationals will be

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able to claim jobseeker?s allowance for three months instead

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of the present six, unless they have the realistic prospect of a job.

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David Cameron said he wanted a fairer system that put Britain

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first, but Labour urged less talk and more action.

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Here's our Home Editor, Mark Easton. Tough talking on immigration goes

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down well on streets like these in Kent, evidence for benefit tourism

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and what the Prime Minister has called the magnetic pull of the

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welfare system is weak but public concern about is not. They should

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not be allowed to just walk into our country. It is making it harder to

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find work. It is frustrating when you are out shopping and you cannot

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afford to fill up your trolley and behave you -- behind you, you have

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foreigners with tokens for their food getting benefits. It is unfair

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to other people. This morning cameras were invited to record a

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Home Office raid on suspected illegal immigrants in Slough. Later

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the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary posed in the flat to

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announce new benefit restrictions that would affect EU migrants. Our

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changes today will save the British taxpayer half ?1 billion over the

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next five years. Later Downing Street clarified that Mr Cameron was

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referring to savings from existing policies. In January the Government

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announced EU migrants would not be able to claim out of work benefits

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until three months after arriving in the UK. Today they limited the

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amount of time they can claim job-seeker's allowance to three

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months. All of the evidence is that on its own it will not make a great

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deal of difference. When we asked the Government how many people would

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be affected by this new policy, they said we don't No, there are no

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figures apparently. This legislation probably has less to do with

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economic threat from benefit tourism than the political threat from UKIP.

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UKIP leader Nigel Farage, who it's rumoured may stand in Thanet in the

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next general election, has successfully tapped into concerns of

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voters of the effect immigrants have had on the British economy. The

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European Commission said it found the latest proposals from the

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Government difficult to comprehend. In the vast majority of cases

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workers from other member states are net contributors to the welfare

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systems of the host country because they pay more in tax and social

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security than they receive in benefits. With the economy

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improving, expect more announcements on the subject in the nine months

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until the next election. Here's our Home Editor, Mark Easton.

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The families of some of the Britons that died in the Malaysia Airlines

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crash in eastern Ukraine have met David Cameron in Downing Street.

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Amongst them were the parents of Liam Sweeney, the Newcastle

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United fan who was travelling with his friend John Alder to see

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the club's pre-season tour when the plane was shot down over Ukraine.

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Mr and Mrs Sweeney told of their struggle to cope with

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the lack of information coming from the investigation.

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I feel very angry, frustrated. It would be nice

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if they could just stop fighting for a little while so we could get

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all the boys and girls home. This afternoon,

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tough new sanctions targeting Russia's economy have been announced

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by the EU over Russia's support for the separatists in east Ukraine

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who've been blamed for shooting down the Malaysian Airlines plane.

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Let's talk now to our Europe Editor, Gavin Hewitt.

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After seven hours of talks, EU ambassadors agreed on the toughest

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sanctions so far, economic sanctions will take place almost immediately.

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There will be an embargo on future arms sales, restrictions on the

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export of sensitive technologies for the energy sectors and also

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restrictions on the Russian state banks being able to access European

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financial markets. Also further names have been added to the list of

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those subject to these bands and also asset freezes, a further eight

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names. We understand that probably four of them are close to Vladimir

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Putin's inner circle. It has been difficult for the EU to reach this

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stage and probably the sanctions are as tough as they could have agreed

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to. What has made the difference is the shooting down of the Malaysian

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airlines plane, which has hardened attitudes. What do they hope to get

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out of these sanctions? They want President Putin to stop supporting

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those rebels in the east of Ukraine, but the EU ambassadors here today

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well understood that there will be a price to be paid for this in terms

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of the economy. Our top story this evening:

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More than 100 Palestinians are reported to have died in Gaza

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after 24-hours of intense bombardment by Israel.

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Still to come: Diesel drivers face higher

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charges under new efforts to tackle air pollution.

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Later on BBC London: The latest from the

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Commonwealth Games, including a gold medal for gymnast Max Whitlock.

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And, the work of the children's author, Jacqueline Wilson, is

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brought to life on the London stage. It's peak season for Britain's

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holiday resorts, but as crowds head to the seaside there's a warning

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about the pace at which some of the country's beaches are disappearing.

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Along the east coast, up to half a mile of land is being lost every 50

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years because of coastal erosion. The problem's been made worse

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by this winter's storms, which caused more than ?18 million

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worth of damage along the Norfolk and Suffolk coasts.

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Sian Lloyd has this report. On the beaches of the sandy

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East Anglian coast, defences against the wind and waves have almost

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become part of the furniture. But this is the last frontier,

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the sand dunes in Hemsby in Norfolk are disappearing and, with them,

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people's homes. All that remains are

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the foundations, a reminder of the winter's storms.

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The resort was battered by the biggest tidal surge in 60 years.

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There was nothing people could do to save their properties.

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We need coastal protection here to keep our beach safe.

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If we don't have protection, then why are people going to come

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to Hemsby? We need a beach.

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The community has built these make-shift defences,

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but they're only a quick fix. Resorts are competing for funding

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for sea defences, the cost of this scheme, a few miles away in

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Great Yarmouth, exceeds ?7 million. The owners of the caravan park

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under threat are footing the bill. Over the next three to four years

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we'd have probably lost 130 pitches off the seafront, in the second row.

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And, what it would have meant for our business is confidence

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in our products would obviously have gone down.

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Our owner base would have deteriorated, which would make

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our long-term sustainability as a business in doubt.

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Further down the coast, in Covehithe, this church has stood

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here for hundreds of years, but experts say if erosion takes

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place at the current pace, it won't be here in the next century.

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This road once ran through the fishing village, but now it's

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not safe to use any more because the cliff has been eaten away.

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Professor Jules Pretty records how this landscape is changing.

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The soft sandstone cliffs provide stunning scenery,

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but they've been sheared away by the sea over centuries.

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The lands that people played on and watched the bombers go to sea

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in the Second World War, they're about half a mile out to sea now.

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We're standing on the edge. As we look forward,

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the effects of climate change will mean that the pace

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of change will actually accelerate. That brings uncertainty to many

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who call these beaches home. Sian Lloyd, BBC News,

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on the east coast. A former police officer has been

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accused of lying and of having wiped a written record

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"from the history of Hillsborough." The accusation was made

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against Trevor Bichard, who's been giving evidence at the

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Hillsborough inquest in Warrington. Judith Moritz is in Warrington.

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Tell us more about what has been said? In 19 89, PC Trevor Bichard

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was operating the CCTV cameras at the Hillsborough stadium. Today he

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was accused of lying. It was said in court a note he made about that

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afternoon had vanished from the record. At 2.55pm on the afternoon

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of the disaster he heard officers on the police radios asking for the

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gates to the central tunnel which led down to the pens behind the goal

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to be closed off. The pens were where 96 Liverpool fans later lost

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their lives. He made a note of that request in a log he made a day after

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the disaster. The court was told in a second copy of the log and oral

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evidence there had been no mention of that detail at all. Brendan

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Campbell, representing Hillsborough families, said it had been wiped

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from the history of Hillsborough. She asked him why and on who

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instruction have you lied? He answered, nobody has instructed me

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to lie. There's nothing I've said. I didn't honestly believe. Judith.

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Thank you very much. Drivers of diesel vehicles are

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facing higher charges to travel into city centres as part

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of efforts to tackle air pollution. Plans are being drawn up in London

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to charge a ?10 fee for diesel vehicles, to avoid breaching

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European pollution standards and incurring heavy fines.

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Other cities are said to be considering low emission zones.

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Our transport correspondent, Richard Westcott, has the details.

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For years we have been told diesels are greener. The Government even

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lowered the tax so we'd buy them. So why are so many councils now

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thinking about charging us to drive a diesel in town? I'm a young

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driver. It's difficult to pay that amount amount of money to come into

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the city centre. They should apply a charge for the vehicles that are

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causing more of a pollution and everything else that goes along with

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it as well. I just don't think they should be charging to come into the

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city centre. I don't think people come into the city centre in cars

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much now anyway. Until now, the focus has been on carbon dioxide

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emissions which are often lower with diesels, the problem is, they

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pollute in other ways too. You can certainly smell the exhaust from

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here, the only way we can actually see what is coming out is to use a

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piece of equipment like this. On this screen, we will be able to

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identify all of the pollutants. We are looking at nitrogen dioxide or

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NO2 it's bad in diesel cars, worse than in petrol. In urban situations,

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where you have lots of congestion and traffic flow situations like

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junctions and traffic lights, you get high spikes of NO2 which is

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detrimental to human health. The nigh row again ok sides are bad if

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you are asthmatic, order other very young. The Government is facing

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legal action for failing to hit EU pollution targets in all the big

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cities. Ministers say they are committed to cutting pollution. The

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Mayor of London is looking to charge drivers an extra ?10 if they drive

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an older diesel into the city. To think there was a mistake made to

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get everybody into buying cars that were pumping out a lot of this, we

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need to move on and have cleaner diesel engines. Several councils,

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including Leicester, Birmingham and Leeds, have told the BBC

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including Leicester, Birmingham and considered copying the idea, but

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including Leicester, Birmingham and away from extra charges if you

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including Leicester, Birmingham and at the Commonwealth Games with 31

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medals up for grabs, in 14 sports. It's seen England and Scotland go

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head-to-head and success for Scottish poster girl,

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Eilidh Child, on the track, cheered on by the 40,000 spectators here

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in Hamden Park where our sports correspondent, Andy Swiss, is.

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Welcome to Hampden Park the evening session due to get underway in the

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next hour. We have seen plenty of action here today, including a visit

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from some special guests. It was a day when the Commonwealth's sporting

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royalty met the rail thing. The Duke and duch Duchess of Cambridge, with

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Prince Harry meeting Usain Bolt amid a whistle-stop tour of Glasgow's

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venues, including Hampden Park where Scotland's biggest name made her

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entrance. Eilidh Child's face is on countless billboards here. Her feet

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do the talking. Roared on by her home crowd, she coasted through to

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the 400m Hurdles Final. The success of the para sport events at these

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Games was confirmed with a huge ovation for David Weir. It was just

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as easy for one of the global stars, who strolled into the 800 meters

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final. While they breezed on, others were sent crashing out. Andy

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Turner's title defence in the hurdles over before it had barely

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begun. It was also a day for hills, thrills and a fair number of spills.

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Mountain biking roared back to the games. The trails offered a

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picturesque, but punishing challenge with New Zealand's Cooper racing to

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the men's title. Amid the medals the Games have a fresh doming

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controversy. 16-year-old competitor has been suspended from the Games

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after failing a drugs test. It's been a busy day here at the

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athletics. Also a busy day in the gymnastics. Earlier on today

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England's men held on to their overnight lead to beat Scotland in

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England's men held on to their the Team event. Natalie Pirks now

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reports. It's a sport of the Team event. Natalie Pirks now

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stumbles where the slightest mis-step can cost you marks. Many of

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England and Scotland's gymnasts were Olympic team-mates, pleasantries

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were put on hold here. The English were dealt a blow early on with this

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first fault. were dealt a blow early on with this

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meant England were now a man down. COMMENTATOR: We need you now. Step

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forward Lewis Smith, returning to gymnastic at the ripe old age of 25.

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The Olympic pummel horse silver-medallists has been seen more

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recently quick stepping on Strictly Come Dancing than on the par lel

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bars. His relief was clear. Scotland were still behind. England needed

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just one final good routine on the high bar. Cristian Thomas sealed the

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deal. That is it, England confirmed as the Commonwealth champions. That

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silver for Scotland represents the first ever medal in the Team event

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in the Commonwealth Games. Now it is up to England's girls to see if they

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can take a second gold in one day. In a matter of minutes they will

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discover whether their floor routines were enough for gold.

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Natalie Pirks, BBC News. That event heading for a thrilling conclusion.

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One other piece of news, organisers say they are considering refunds for

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hundreds of fans who missed events on Sunday because of transport

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problems. Organisers say they are putting on extra buses to help

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spectators. Fingers crossed no problems tonight. Back to you. Thank

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you very much. Time for a look at the weather now. Here is Peter Gibbs

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Andy had his coat on there in Glasgow a bit of a change? Yes. It

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will be a trend many of us will notice through the rest of the week.

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Turning cooler. Temperatures back to normal for most of us. Still

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sunshine around, don't write off summer. Be prepared to catch a few

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showers as the week goes on. summer. Be prepared to catch a few

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showers as the week goes on. Showers will move in across western

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Scotland, some on the heavy side by the end of the night. The breeze

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will blow through northern areas. Dry further south. A lovely sunny

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start to the day for much of the Midlands and southern England.

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Temperatures beginning to pick up fairly quickly. A slightly fresher

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feel to things particularly across southern England compared to recent

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days. As we head northwards we start to find more in the way of cloud.

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Certainly across north Wales, northern England too. Maybe thick

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enough to give one or two light showers. The brighter colours

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telling us that some of the showers will be on the heavy side, Serge to

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begin with. That is probably the case across Northern Ireland as

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well. As time goes on, showers around here, they will become

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lighter and fewer and further between. That breeze certainly quite

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noticeable once again. A warm day across much of England and Wales.

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Temperatures up to the seasonal average, not quite as warm as today

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across southern parts of England. A cool breeze blowing in across

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Glasgow. Not as warm as the athletes would like when you add in the

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breeze. A dry story through the afternoon and evening sessions of

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the athletics. Thursday, the chance of prolonged spells of rain across

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northern areas. Further south again a scattering of showers here and

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there. Similar temperatures, close to where they should be at this time

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of the year. Looking ahead to the weekend, Rita, more in the way of

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showers around, some sunshine, near normal temperatures. Peter, thank

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you. That is all from me. Now on BBC One we join the BBC's news teams

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