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Sir Cliff Richard's home is searched by police investigating a historical

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allegation of sexual assault. The allegation against the pop

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star dates back to the 1980s. A search warrant has been granted

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after the police have received allegation relating to a sexual

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incident. The allegation relates to a young boy under the age of 16

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years. Police spent six hours at the home of Sir Cliff Richard in

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Berkshire. Sir Cliff who was abroad said the allegation was completely

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false but he would cooperate fully with the police.

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star dates back to the 1980s. Also tonight.

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Britain drops further aid supplies in northern Iraq - but America now

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says a rescue mission is unlikely. I got three C grades. Are you

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serious! ? says a rescue mission is unlikely.

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Results day for A-Level students - there are more A*s

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and more places at university. A convoy of lorries going

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from Russia to Ukraine causes more tension between the two countries.

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And the new faces that helped turn around the fortunes of the English

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cricket team. Tonight on BBC London -

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Signs of a housing market decline - demand for London homes falls

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at its fastest rate for six years. And the picture reportedly showing

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a Londoner holding a severed head whilst fighting in Syria.

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Good evening. The pop star Sir Cliff Richard has

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had his home in Berkshire searched by South Yorkshire Police,

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in connection with an allegation of sexual assault involving

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a boy who was under 16 at the time. The allegation was made recently

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but dates back to the 1980s. The BBC understands the alleged

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sexual assault is claimed to have taken place at a rally by the

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Christian evangelist Billy Graham at a football stadium in Sheffield.

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Sir Cliff, who hasn't been arrested, strongly denies the allegation.

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Our correspondent David Sillito is outside Sir Cliff Richard's home

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in Sunningdale. David.

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From here on the roadside you would have barely been where anything was

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amiss today but beyond these high fences and security gates there is

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an apartment building. At the very top there is a penthouse owned by

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Sir Cliff Richard. He is not there at the moment but throughout the day

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today there have been people in it. Police, going through his

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possessions. A small convoy of unmarked police cars arrived quite

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quietly this morning at this gated complex of apartments near

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Sunningdale. From the air we saw eight officers headed towards Cliff

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Richard's empty penthouse flat. Inside a glimpse of the search. The

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trigger for this: An allegation that Cliff Richard carried out a sexual

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assault on a boy under the age of 16. During a rally by the Evangelist

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Billy Graham in Sheffield in 1985. Today I can confirm that South

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Yorkshire Police have gained entry into a property in this Sunningdale

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area of Berkshire. Officers are currently searching the property. A

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search warrant has been granted after the police received an

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allegation relating to a sexual nature. The allegation relates to a

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young boy under the age of 16 years. The owner of the property is not

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present. Sir Cliff Richard, one of Britain's most successful and

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popular performers, a committed Christian. There was a hint of rock

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'n' roll rebellion when he started out, but since then he has been a

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byword for clean cut, wholesome, family friendly pop music. He is a

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regular in the crowds at Wimbledon. And he has an undimmed enthusiasm

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for performing. It was only recently he was plugging his latest

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recordings. It is going back to grass roots, the album is full of

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iconic rock 'n' roll songs. His response today: A statement in which

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he said: It is understood Sir Cliff is at the

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moment in Portugal. He was interviewed there earlier this week.

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However, there was no sign of him today at this address where he has

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been staying. Meanwhile, back at his Berkshire home we watched as the

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police began to leave the apartment. This venture is a joint operation

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between South Yorkshire Police and Thames Valley Police. As you can

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see, the first of the vehicles are now leaving. They have been in there

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for more than five hours. We have already seen a number of items taken

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from that penthouse flat packed up in metal boxes and now taken away

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for examination. It is, though, just a search. No arrest, no charge, one

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allegation that he has strenuously denied.

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David Cameron says Britain must remain flexible in its approach to

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refugees. He was responding to an assessment by US special forces that

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fewer people than thought remain trapped on a mountain in northern

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Iraq. America says a rescue mission

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for those who fled to Mount Sinjar is now unlikely.

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Our world affairs correspondent Paul Wood has been to the mountain,

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and he sent this exclusive report. This is the one road from Mount

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Sinjar not controlled by the Islamic state. This harsh and barren terrain

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is the only way of escape for tens of thousands of Yazidis. A few are

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still making their way out on foot. This family hid the day is silent

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and terrified before sneaking away. There were bodies in the streets of

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the town of Sinjar, he says. A few people remain scattered across the

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mountain. They have cobbled together a camp with supplies dropped by the

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RAF. It is brutally hot. They have next to nothing but they say they

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have no choice but to flee. One man tells me the jihadis put a gun to

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his head and told him "convert or die. " Like everyone here, he says

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he will never abandon his faith. Sheltered, courtesy of the British

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taxpayer, they are profoundly grateful for the aid they have

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received, but are also desperate for more military help. They face

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genocide, they say. First, they came for the Christians and then ask, the

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Yazidis, he says. They are striking all of the minorities. If the

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international community will not step in all of us will be destroyed.

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The only soldiers confronting the Islamic state in this part of Iraq

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are the Kurds. The US and Britain are determined not to send troops.

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But even with US air support there is not much these lightly armed

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Kurds can do, they are stuck here with those who fled. By one count

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more than 100,000 terrified Yazidis fled over this mountain, many of

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them at risk of dying from the heat off from thirst. A humanitarian

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catastrophe has been averted. Most people have moved on. There are just

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a few stragglers left behind. But the question remains, how are these

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people and millions of other displaced Iraqis going to get home

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when the Islamic State controls so much of the country? That report was

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just in from Paul Wood on Sinjar mountains. The UN has declared its

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highest level of an emergency because of the crisis triggered in

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the Islamic State in the North. The city of Dohuk situation is now

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critical after 150,000 displaced people arrived there. Our world

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affairs correspondent Caroline Wyatt spent the day at a hospital where

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the doctors have been treating Yazidi refugees. Volunteer Kurdish

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medical teams have been risking their lives to reach Mount Sinjar to

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treat the injured and the sick. These are the images they brought

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back. But over the past few days the numbers still stranded there have

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diminished. Now several hundred, but no longer thousands. But many of the

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most vulnerable survivors are still arriving in Iraqi Kurdistan in

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urgent need of treatment. In one day alone hospitals in. Hook treated up

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to 800 casualties -- Dohuk. This man is 80. In the exodus even the old

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had to walk to survive. He told me he had to go on foot down the

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mountain. For over 50 kilometres. His journey took days. In Dohuk now

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the real question is how to look after the survivors and the sick and

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injured who have come down from the mountains, and how to prevent any

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outbreak of disease thanks to the conditions that many refugees are

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now living in. The Yazidi families who have made it to safety remain in

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these abandoned buildings, or in schools, in their tens of thousands.

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Maybe in a few days we may face some endemic diseases. We don't know yet.

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We may have an epidemic of cholera, polio or measles, because the places

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where they live now they just have public buildings in public parts.

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Existing refugee camps are already full. Dohuk provinces already home

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to 400,000 people fleeing Islamic State fighters doubling the

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population here. Support from outside is what they need here, and

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some of that was visible last night in the form of another RAF airdrop

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of aid to Mount Sinjar. Although it seems there will be no US rescue

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after American special forces landed on the mountain to assess what

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needed to be done. There will, though, the other forms of help. The

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British Prime Minister David Cameron was in Wiltshire today to see how

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many millions of pounds in British aid is being spent. He visited a

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distribution centre preparing supplies for northern Iraq, while

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deciding what military assets should be used to support the humanitarian

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mission there. What our plans need to do is make sure we have the

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assets in place to help out in the right way. That's why last night one

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of our tornadoes was gathering information about the situation,

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which is why it is important our generics are in place and if plans

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are flexible enough to enough to respond to this situation. Last

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night those generic's were ready and waiting to play their part in

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bringing help to Iraq -- The waiting is over for A-Level

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students across England, Wales and Northern Ireland - with this year's

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results showing a slight rise in the numbers getting the top A* grade.

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The overall pass rate has dropped slightly for the first time

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in more than 30 years to 98%, that's down by just 0.1 percentage

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points - equivalent to 800 pupils. The number of university places

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available is now estimated to have reached 500,000, partly due to

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an extra 30,000 places which have been funded by the government.

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Our education correspondent Alex Forsyth reports.

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a quick rip and results revealed. For some delight and four others

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despair. Yes, checkmate, we are in. Christine and's hard work had paid

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off. Earlier this morning he learned online he had got the university

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place he wanted. How are you feeling? It was a bit of a relief

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and it was fairly stressful waiting to see whether they would accept it

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or not but the offer was decent. For others the news wasn't as good as

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hoped. I'm quite gutted. I didn't get into my first place so I will

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have to see if I can reapply to them through clearing and see if they

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will have me. Whether students have done better or worse than they

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expected there is still plenty of choice, because this year there is a

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record number of university places on offer. It is a buyer's market.

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Despite there being fewer 18-year-olds in the population more

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took exams and the number of university applications has risen.

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But there is no limit on places for those with the highest grades, A,

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B, B and above and with students playing up to ?9,000 a year in fees

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universities are competing even playing up to ?9,000 a year in fees

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universities are competing more to attract them. Queens University in

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Belfast is offering free flights home to students from mainland

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Britain. Others have scholarships with cash awards, sports club

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memberships, even free laptops. Universities should be scouring the

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country like talent scouts looking for the best young people, who can

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make a big difference to their own prospects and the prospects of the

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University and the country. That's why we have taken away this limit on

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student numbers so there is a place for everyone who is capable of

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benefiting from higher education. The extra places meant more options

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in clearing where those who did worse or better than the expected

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can trade their place. Even some top universities offered some slots this

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way. But for those who narrowly missed out it was a difficult day.

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Rubin was just too grades and five marks from his dream course studying

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archaeology in Manchester. I'm left a bit stranded now so I have to sort

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it out. It is just a bit getting I was so close but so far. But

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Rubin's story had a happy ending. In the past hour Manchester has offered

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him a place despite not getting the grades. So, while not everyone is on

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the course they wanted, for many students it has been a good year.

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This is one of those busy clearing centres. Here at the University of

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the West of England people have been on the phone all day, more than 4500

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calls from students, as they try and fill those final few places. Scenes

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like this would have been replicated across the country as students in

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England, Wales and Northern Ireland get their results and then try and

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find a place. This year the pass rate has fallen overall. That

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follows years of concern over grade inflation. But the number of

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students expected to get a place at university was likely to be higher

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than ever. More than 500,000 people going off to study for the first

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time. The government says it has introduced policies to lift the cap

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on aspiration. But now more than ever it is important for

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universities to make sure they fill those places so that they can

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balance their books. A fresh five-day ceasefire between

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Israel and the Palestinians appears The truce is intended to allow time

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for more substantial talks in Egypt In Ukraine, heavy shelling has been

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heard in Donetsk, which is held The city has been surrounded for

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several weeks by Ukrainian forces. The latest violence comes

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as a Russian convoy, said by Moscow to be carrying aid,

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makes its way towards a rebel-held The government in Kiev says

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the convoy is a cover to send Those who saw it today could only

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stop and stare. It is one of the largest humanitarian convoys Russia

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has ever organised, nearly 300 lorries, packed, Moscow says, with

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aid for eastern Ukraine. All day, it snaked its way through southern

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Russia before stopping in a field, 20 miles from the border. But

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Ukraine is reluctant to let the lorries in. It fears it may be a

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cover for a Russian military operation. The border with Ukraine

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is just a short drive away from here, and if Russia decides to take

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this convoy across that border without the permission of Kiev, then

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the Ukrainian government will view that is a major provocation. We ask

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to see what was in the lorries, so they opened one of them up. No

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secret weapon shipments here, just sleeping bags. One of the drivers

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told me that Russia was trying to help Ukrainians, and that it was the

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West that was the aggressor. America, he says, wants to grab

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Ukraine for itself. Today, Ukraine dispatched a rival humanitarian

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combo to the east of the country, the message to Russia, we don't need

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your help. But the Red Cross is warning that the humanitarian

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situation in eastern Ukraine is critical now, with thousands lacking

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water and medicine, and with no sign of an end to the fighting. In

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Donetsk today, they were sifting through the rubble of homes torn

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apart by shelling. I don't know what to do, Valentina

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says, I don't have anywhere else to run to. Ukraine accuses Russia of

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starting this walk and of arming the separatist rebels. That is why when

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Russia says it wants to help, by distributing aid, Kiev is so

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reluctant to accept it. The time is just after a quarter

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past six. Sir Cliff Richard's home has been

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searched by police investigating a historical

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allegation of sexual assault. Sir Cliff, who hasn't been arrested,

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said the allegation was completely false, and he promised to cooperate

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with the police. And, still to come, bruised but ready for battle,

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England prepare for the final test against India. Coming up later on

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BBC London, first A-level students to study at a Free School in new

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celebrate their results. And back with a cold, we will hear from Mo

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Farah rah on his medal success in the European Championships. Join us

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at 6:30pm. GP practices in England

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which are failing could be closed The watchdog, the Care Quality

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Commission, has unveiled a new inspection programme that will

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scrutinise around 8,000 practices. A rating of "outstanding"

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will be given to the best surgeries, while those with the lowest rating,

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"inadequate", will get six months to resolve any problems, and could then

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face outside intervention through But doctors' leaders say closing

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practices won't be Our Health Correspondent Branwen

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Jeffreys reports. One of the first surgeries to get a

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visit from the inspectors. Their report said it was cluttered,

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disorganised, with poor records, badly stained chairs in the waiting

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room. The practice has since closed. Jennifer had already left as a

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patient, after losing confidence. She says the problems were

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well-known locally. I did not think he was particularly interested in

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you is the person. He would more often than not be on the phone,

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talking to somebody else, and again maybe being called away.

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Unexpectedly. Now all GP practices in England face similar

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inspections. If they fail badly they could get six months to change, or

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lose their contract with the NHS. So what happens when a GP practice

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closes? The patients from here are having to travel to other practices

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until new doctors can be found. Similar kinds of arrangements will

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be put in place around the country if other practices are found to be

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failing in their standard of care. Helen could I just speak to you

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minute about the inspection? GPs are getting ready for inspection. They

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are worried about how fair the system will be, and say they are

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already overworked. The paperwork is piling up, often it is breaking down

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protocols about things you do already. We have tested the fire

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alarm every week for years, now we have to have a protocol to say that

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is how we tested. All of this does detract from providing patient care.

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But it will mean patients can compare GP practices for the first

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time, allowing them to choose who they want to be their family doctor.

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The Eurozone's economy ground to a halt in the second quarter

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of this year, with the latest figures showing no overall growth.

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Europe's biggest economy, Germany, shrank by 0.2%,

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The figures suggest the Eurozone's recovery from its longest-ever

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With me now is our Economics Correspondent Simon Jack.

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Simon, this is worrying news for the Eurozone, and for us to full stop

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yes, it is. If you look around the Eurozone, the report card looks

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pretty grim. The eye catching one is Germany, powerhouse of Europe, now

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stuttering. There are reasons to think it might come back a bit,

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there are seasonal factors there. France has not budged an inch and

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economic before a year. If you add that to Italy, which is now back

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into a recession, and the three big hitters, if you like, are not doing

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well at all. Some bright spots, Spain and Portugal doing OK, but

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generally, overall, it is a pretty grim picture, and that is bad for us

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because it is our biggest trading partner. What is bad to them is bad

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to our economy, it makes up almost 50% of our exports. All of this will

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add pressure on the European Central Bank to do something, like we have

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done in the UK and the US, to start printing money to boost the Eurozone

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out of this sort of malaise. Up to now, Germany has resisted these

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attempts, but given the fact that its economy is now contracting, they

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may be more willing now to accept it is time to start printing money,

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like we have done in the UK and the US. The European Central Bank

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president will be under pressure. Simon, thank you very much.

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A four-month ban against the footballer Luis Suarez

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has been upheld, but he has been cleared for training.

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The striker, who was suspended after biting an

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Italian defender during the World Cup, is also now eligible to play in

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friendly games for both his club, Barcelona, and for his country.

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The Uruguayan is likely to make his debut for Barca at Real Madrid

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A year ago today, England's cricketers were on a high, after

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What came next was one of the worst periods in the team's history:

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defeated 5-0 in Australia, and then beaten at home by Sri Lanka.

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But now, with back to back wins under their belts, they go

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into tomorrow's final Test against India on course for a series win.

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The Oval is the traditional finishing line for a cricket series

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last year here, England were holding the ashes and then all crumbled. A

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year of turmoil has witnessed unprecedented restructuring. Just

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this summer we had met Jos Buttler, Chris Jordan, Sam Robson, all new

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players but this man has really represented the new arrivals. Moeen

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Ali will always stand up. I have enjoyed several conversations with

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him this summer about his Muslim faith, which she expresses most

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visibly in that beard. It has always been really important, I just do

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what I have to do. 19 wickets against India, have I lost count of

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a feud? I am doing all right. While he concentrates on his bowling,

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which has flummoxed India, his status has become appreciated.

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I met this actor from Citizen Khan. Through humour, Baddiel six to

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normalise British Muslim identity. Cricket can do the same. Is a

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British Brummie, we don't want to be superior or different, we want to be

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on a level playing field. There is no more of a level playing field

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than playing cricket for your country. So for someone like Moeen

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Ali to be chosen purely because he is one of the best 11 people in this

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country at playing cricket is absolutely superb. Of course, there

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are still old faces. This is Stuart Broad, carrying a reminder of the

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ball which hit him in the last test. He is ready to play again, behind a

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redesigned metal grill. Understandable.

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Let's take a look at the weather now.

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Watching the weather today has quite literally been electrifying. A

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cluster of thunderstorm starting up across parts of Wales and the

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south-west, and they really gathered in momentum and pace across the

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south-east and parts of the East Midlands. It has brought around an

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inch or two of rain in some of those sharp showers, some hail, even

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reports of final clouds across the East Midlands. These showers will

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ease away slowly but surely through the evening. Overnight, most of the

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showers dying away towards the coast. Tomorrow a little more

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optimistic, fewer showers around and more in the way of sunshine, we

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start off quite promising. Lots of sunny spells coming through, by the

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middle of the balloon, one or two -- middle of the afternoon, one or two

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isolated showers cropping up. Highs of 19 to 20 degrees quite possible

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in one or two places, maybe as high as 21 or 22 in the south-east. One

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or two showers perhaps close to the Welsh border stretching up to the

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Midlands, across the peak district. Some of them could be heavy and

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thundery. Still a coolish feel come at disappointing for the middle of

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August. As we move to the weekend, quite a blustery wind returns to the

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north-west, some rain around as well but the best of the drier brighter

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weather likely to be on Saturday across England and Wales. The wind

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strengthening the gale forced gusts, some persistent showers

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across Scotland, it still feels quite cool here. That area of low

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pressure, it sits down into the North Sea. We continue to introduce

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this north-westerly wind. Plenty of showers around on Sunday as well,

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and the cool feel continues into the early half of next week.

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A reminder of the main story. Sir Cliff Richard's home in Berkshire

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has been searched by police investigating an historical

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allegation of sexual assault. Sir Cliff, who has not been arrested,

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said the allegation was completely false, and runners to cooperate with

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the police. More on that and all the other news on the BBC News Channel,

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and on our website, but that is all for now. It is

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