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Millions head to the polls to cast their vote on the country's future.

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From villages in the Highlands and Islands to big cities

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like Edinburgh, the turnout is expected to be very high.

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Very important. Not just for... You know, for future generations as

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well. I think it is an extremely important day for Scotland, probably

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the most important of my life. With a tense night ahead, the faces

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of the two campaigns, Gordon Brown and Alex Salmond, cast their votes

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in the independence referendum. A British hostage is shown in a new

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video from Islamic State extremists. He says he's being held

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as a prisoner. On the front line with the

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Syrian Army fighting Islamic State - The Syrians say any attempt to fight

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jihadi groups without their soldiers is not going to work, because they

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are experienced, battle-hardened Police searching

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for London teenager Alice Gross, last seen three weeks ago,

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say a Latvian man is now a suspect. But will his company strike

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the right chord with investors? The growing campaign by Muslims in

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the capital condemning the actions And the stations hit the hardest

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as a result of ticket office Good evening and welcome to the

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BBC News at Six from Edinburgh After two years of campaigning

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and passionate debate, the people of Scotland are finally

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able to cast their votes to decide whether Scotland should be

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an independent country. The turnout is expected to be

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extremely high with more than 4.3 Queues were forming outside polling

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stations Our Special Correspondent Allan

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Little reports. This long campaign has reached into

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every remote corner of Scotland. This ballot box was

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on its way to the island of Gigha, Across the country, 4.3 million

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people are registered to vote, an In Edinburgh,

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the grey autumn weather did not keep the voters away, for this is

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a moment of historic significance. I should think so!

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Very important. You know,

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for future generations as well. I think it is an extremely important

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day for Scotland, probably It's the future of the country,

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and all of Britain. It's going to be exciting

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and interesting to see The two men who led the yes

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and no campaigns voted early. Alex Salmond,

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near his constituency home in Aberdeenshire, and Alistair Darling

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in the Edinburgh constituency he So did two others who played key

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roles, the former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, at home

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in Fife, and Deputy First Minister When polling closes at 10pm,

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the votes from more than 5500 polling stations will be counted

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in 32 local authorities, from And the numbers collated nationally

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here, at Ingliston, The official whose job it is to make

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the formal announcement But I'm really focused

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on making sure the process goes well, that at the

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end of the day, even if people don't like the result, they will at least

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trust it as an accurate result. My job is to ensure the integrity

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of the process, the robustness of the procedures

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that we use will ensure that people The historic weight of this poll is

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reflected in this, reporters and television crews from around

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the world have come to Edinburgh, for what is happening here is

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unprecedented in a modern European Voting is taking place

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at more than 5,000 polling stations The polls close at 10pm

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and strict rules mean that until then the BBC and other

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broadcasters are not allowed to The results will be counted

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in each of Scotland's 32 local authority areas,

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from the smaller island councils to the bigger urban authorities,

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and the winning campaign simply And it's how people

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in big cities like Glasgow and Edinburgh cast their votes that will

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be watched particularly closely, Well, the voting takes place

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across 32 areas of Scotland, Later, when we show the results,

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it's green for yes and red for no. Here they all are,

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from Aberdeen City down to West But what if I order them in terms

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of size? We see immediately Glasgow,

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with 500,000 people, Then Edinburgh, then Fife,

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then North and South Lanarkshire Going all the way over here, we get

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to the island councils, Orkney, It will be these really huge

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councils, Glasgow, Edinburgh and so on, that are watched

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particularly keenly on the night. Now, have a look at the map

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of Scotland here, that you will be If I just change it slightly,

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I will be able to use it to illustrate the position

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of those six biggest councils. I will bring a line out

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of the council that relates to the size of the population, the longest

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line you can see is Glasgow. In the north-east,

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you see Aberdeenshire. To the west, around Glasgow,

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North and South Lanarkshire. Of course, voting is

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happening all over Scotland. The counting will take place pretty

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soon, and it won't be long Well the bulk

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of the results are expected to come through in the early hours, between

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2am and 5am tomorrow morning. The final result will be announced

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at the National Count Centre here in Edinburgh, and our correspondent,

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James Robbins, is there. This hall, close to Edinburgh

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airport, has a dual role tonight. It is at the cables behind me were the

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votes from the Edinburgh local authority area will be counted. This

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is also the national counting centre, where results from across

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the country will be collated and then announced by Mary Pitcaithly,

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the Chief Counting Officer, and her staff. She is being very cautious

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about the timing of the final result, pointing out that weather

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could be a factor. Helicopters are needed to bring ballot boxes from

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some islands, so that could be a factor. So could be any recounts at

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local centres. But there will be no national recount. So, once she is

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satisfied she has all of the figures in, they are complete and accurate,

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and she says accuracy and not speed is essential, she will go to the

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microphone for one final time to announce Scotland's verdict in the

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referendum. There will of course be full

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coverage of this historic If you're watching in Scotland

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it begins on BBC1 at 10:25 For the rest of the UK,

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you can join Huw Edwards and Jeremy Vine who'll be analysing all

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the results as they come in Now though it's over to Reeta

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in the studio for the rest A new video has appeared showing

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a British hostage, John Cantlie, who is believed to being held

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by extremists from Islamic State. Unlike previous videos, the film

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doesn't show an execution, and John Cantlie speaks from

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behind a desk, and says Islamic State has been "misrepresented

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by the Western media." IS has previously released film

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of the killing of three Western hostages,

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and has threatened the life Our Security Correspondent Gordon

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Corera reports. The latest release from the group

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calling itself Islamic State is another propaganda video. Although

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different from the last. Hello, my name is John Cantley. The British

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journalist says he is a prisoner and his life hangs in the balance as he

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reads from a script. After two disastrous and hugely unpopular wars

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in Afghanistan and Iraq, why is it that our governments appear so keen

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to get involved in yet another unwinnable conflict. The message is

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highly political, with criticism of US and UK intervention in Iraq and

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current policy. The video was different from the others we have

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seen recently. It is shot inside and not in the desert. Nobody is killed

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in it. Nobody from Islamic State is even seen. But the aim is similar,

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using a hostage to try to spread its message direct to public opinion and

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to challenge public policy. This was a freelance journalist John Cantlie

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in Syria before he was first detained in 2012. We have basically

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walked into a bad area. He tried to escape and was shot, but was

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eventually freed after a raid by the Free Syrian Army on the camp where

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he was held. Then he went back to Syria in November 2012 and was

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captured again. This time, with James Foley, the American journalist

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seen killed in a video a month ago. Until today, news organisations have

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agreed not to report his disappearance at the request of the

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Foreign Office. His family have now been informed about today's video,

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which the Government has condemned. Obviously, any new video released,

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the Foreign Office need to look at origins and check the veracity. But

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I don't think we need any reminder what an odious, barbaric movement

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ISIL is. At the end of the video, John Cantlie says he will appear in

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further broadcasts. While it carries out

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its propaganda war against the West, Islamic State is being fought

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inside Syria by government forces. It's one aspect of the bitter civil

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war there between the government and several rebel factions,

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including the Free Syrian Army. Our Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen

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and his team have been in Ain Beida with the government troops

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and they were given rare access to This is what will war has done to

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Jobar, a district on the edge It has been fought over since rebels

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seized it around two years ago. A new government offensive,

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more air strikes, is happening now. The way Syrians used to live is

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a memory. The Syrian army allowed us

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into a small corner of the front line, about

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a 20 minute drive south of Damascus, It was recaptured recently

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from rebels after hard fighting. This is a small outpost - around 300

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metres separate the front lines. But what happens here says a lot

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about the war and the way the fight These Syrian soldiers said they were

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volunteers and that the West was finally

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catching up with their belief that on the opposite side of the lines

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were religious extremists. The Syrian general commanding this

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sector, who seemed popular with his men,

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didn't want to identify himself. TRANSLATION: Islamic State is a

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threat on the whole world. If they control Syria, they will

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take us back to the Stone Age. But, as a military power

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they are not a threat. Syria can crush them without

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the help of the Americans. The afternoon's firefight started

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when bullets came in The Syrian army has been much more

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effective than its enemies expected. The Syrians say any attempt to fight

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jihad groups without their soldiers isn't going to work, because they

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are experienced, battle hardened But the US and the UK believe this

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army is the tool of a brutal

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dictator. The Syrian soldiers were shooting

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at a mix of Al-Qaeda sympathisers and supposed moderates, the FSA,

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which the Americans want to use Syrian soldiers say the West should

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help them fight jihadists. I come here because I want

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to fight these people. They are coming here to destroy

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our country. I want to save my brothers,

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my sister, my family and my people. The Syrian people,

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the great Syrian people. The war in Syria isn't ending.

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It's renewing itself. And its politics are getting

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more tangled and more bloody. Police investigating

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the disappearance of 14-year-old Alice Gross say they

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are now treating a Latvian man, Officers say the 41-year-old man,

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who vanished a week after Alice disappeared, has a conviction

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for killing his former wife. In 2009, he was also arrested

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for indecent assault against This is the home of 41-year-old

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Arnis Zalkalns. Since Monday, police have been

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searching his flat, including every inch of the garden. The Latvian

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builder has not been seen for two weeks. Alice Gross disappeared the

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week before, after leaving home for a walk. At 3.45 that afternoon, she

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crossed this bridge in Brentford, West London. Police now say the same

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camera it up Arnis Zalkalns, riding a red Mountain bike across the same

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bridge, in the same direction, 15 minutes behind Alice. This is the

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route Alice is known to have taken alongside the River Brent. We asked

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a cyclist to follow at a moderate speed, 15 minutes behind. This is

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where he has caught us up. It is not a scientific experiment, but this

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section of the canal does have the odd houseboat, and there is some

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noise from a building site and from the road, but it is pretty secluded.

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It is noticeable how difficult it would be to get to and from the

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canal, because of the high hedgerow. He certainly would have gone past

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her or into contact with her. What happened at that point is the focus

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of our investigation. Police say they have no evidence Alice has been

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harmed. Arnis Zalkalns is a suspect. But they have said in 1998,

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he was convicted of murder in his native Latvia. He killed his then

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wife. In 2009 he was alleged to have indecently assaulted a 14-year-old

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girl. He was not charged. Scotland Yard has offered a ?20,000 reward

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for help in finding Alice Gross. More than 4 million people in

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Scotland are voting to decide the future of their country.

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And still to come - will women finally be on a par with men at one

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On BBC London, the Chinese trade contingent hoping to boost London's

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fortunes. And more than 60 years on, the pensioners travelling to the

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fields of Kent. Last year, the Chinese website

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Alibaba sold more goods than Amazon Tomorrow,

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the e-commerce giant will sell a part of its business on the New York

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Stock Exchange, making the company It could make Alibaba the third most

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valuable technology firm in the Set up in 1999, its founder, Jack

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Ma, is already worth ?12 billion. Here's our business editor,

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Kamal Ahmed. He is not

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your everyday chief executive. Here he is singing to staff

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at the company's 10th birthday. Jack Ma, worth about ?12 billion,

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runs one of the biggest technology Alibaba is an e-commerce trading

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platform, similar to Amazon Now he is selling a chunk

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of the business on the New York Stock Exchange to raise money

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for even more global expansion. In my 20 years of trading on the New

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York Stock Exchange, this is one of A former English teacher, Jack Ma

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launched Alibaba in 1999 from 15 years on,

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the numbers are staggering. 279 million active users,

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buying and selling everything The company also supports Western

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firms trading with China. One is Gandys, a small maker

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of flip-flops based in London. When they are not playing table

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tennis in their hyper-cool offices, the two brothers

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behind the firm are using Alibaba to Alibaba was essential

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in getting Gandys going. It was one

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of the first things that we did. I had the idea for flip-flops but

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wanted to see how I could get it off the ground, so instantly I got on

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Google, and Alibaba kept coming up. Alibaba has built

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its huge global success helping millions of businesses

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like this one in south-west London. It is also part

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of an important global trend - big Chinese businesses trying to

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break into Western markets. More tech mega-float mania in 2012,

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as Mark Zuckerberg sold Facebook. Such is the investor appetite

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for Jack Ma's Alibaba, many believe it could be as valuable as

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the world largest social network. Police in Thailand say they still

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haven't identified any suspects in the hunt for the killer,

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or killers, of the British tourists Their bodies were found on a beach

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on the island of Koh Tao on Monday. Relatives of 23-year-old Hannah have

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travelled to Thailand, and they appeared at a police press

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conference this morning in Bangkok. Two brutal murders,

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right on the very beaches which have Today they commemorated

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Hannah Witheridge and David Miller People have told us they

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are now living in fear. Fear that

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the perpetrator is still out there, and that their tourist industry has

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suffered irreparable damage. Like the families of the victims,

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local people here desperately want this crime to be solved

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and the cloud to be lifted. But, after four days

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of false leads and frankly lax investigation, the police admit they

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are nowhere near naming a suspect, They have appointed this police

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general to lead He flew into Koh Tao to

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see what has gone wrong. But he had little to say,

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and no wonder. They now admit there is nothing to

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link anyone they have interviewed The family of Hannah Witheridge

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arrived in Bangkok today, prompting an appeal from the British Embassy

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to spare them further anguish. The family are deeply distressed

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at this time, and my role is to support them

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at this very, very difficult time. Obtaining information directly

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and very helpfully from the police has been good for them,

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and they are very distressed by But a comment from

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Thailand's Prime Minister that good-looking women in bikinis are

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not safe on the country's beaches This horrific crime involving young

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tourists has presented Thailand's law enforcement agencies with

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a difficult challenge. They have yet to show

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that they can meet it. Six women have been convicted of

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operating a so-called pyramid scheme in which unsuspecting investors lost

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a total of ?20 million. Each member handed over thousands

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of pounds and was encouraged to But when the new recruits dried up,

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the vast majority Pay in ?3,000,

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get back more than 20 grand. For a few of its members,

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the Give and Take scheme worked. But the vast majority of the 10,000

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people who joined at meetings in South Wales and south-west

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England got nothing back. People at the top,

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which is a very few amount of The majority of the people,

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at the bottom of the pile, have lost everything. It makes you

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really angry. Now, three women have pleaded

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guilty to operating the scheme. Hazel Cameron, on the phone here,

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will be sentenced next month, along with 68-year-old Susan Crane

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and Mary Nash, 65. What do you say to

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the people who invested Two years ago, Laura Fox,

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Jennifer Smith-Hayes and Carol Chalmers were also convicted of

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operating and promoting the scheme. They were sentenced to

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nine months in jail. Another three women -

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Sally Phillips, Jane Smith and Rita Lomas ? pleaded guilty to

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promoting the scheme and were given The women

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behind the scheme argued in court that it was not a classic pyramid,

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because members had to answer a general knowledge question correctly

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before they received a payout. The prosecution, though,

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said that was a nonsense, For example,

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can you name a piece of cutlery? These were the first

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pyramid scheme prosecutions The judge said, if something looks

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too good to be true, it probably is. There's another landmark vote taking

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place in Scotland today - this one about whether to allow

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women to join the Royal Women are already allowed to play

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on the course, but currently only men can become members - and it's

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been that way for 260 years. Centuries of tradition,

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one question, But this vote in Scotland looks to

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be heading for a clear majority. The members of one of

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the most exclusive golf clubs in the world are almost certain to decide

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men and women are better together. I certainly am hoping

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for a positive outcome today, and I believe that our members, who

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have a very long record of acting in golf's best interests, will take

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this opportunity to welcome women. The world's number one golfer

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says it is about time. I do not even think

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there should be a vote. It doesn't matter

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if you are a man or a woman, or you It is equality, everybody is

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the same, everyone is equal and Women have played golf for years,

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and only around 1% of all clubs in Britain are single-sex,

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but the issue has become With falling participation levels,

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golf had to get Women have been able to play this

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course for hundreds of years, but to become a member of the Royal

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Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, This vote is expected to change

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all that, but what will it really A lot of people have the impression

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that golf is very elitist and it is not perhaps family friendly,

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and separating men and women, so I think in general this will help

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golf and hopefully boost numbers. This will not mean an immediate end

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to single-sex clubs, but if the home of golf lets women in, doors may not

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remain closed in the future. Time for a look at the weather,

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with Nick Miller. Some slightly cooler air is coming

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our way at the weekend. Yet again, all of this cloud in east

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Scotland, down to north-east England, has kept the temperature

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down. The cloud will increase overnight. We have seen some

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thunderstorms in southern England. A few more of those will develop,

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heading north, as we go through the night. Not for everybody, but there

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will be some torrential downpours out there. Another humid night and

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start to the day tomorrow. Hill fog, poor visibility. And from the word

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go, this scattering of thunderstorms. There could be a lot

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of surface water if you are driving through those areas. From southern

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England up through south Wales, the warmth will be triggering the threat

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of thunderstorms again in the afternoon. Parts of north Wales, the

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Midlands and East Anglia could be affected. For northern England,

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Northern Ireland and Scotland, it will be mainly cloudy. It will be

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cooler than today. Still some showers around in northern Scotland,

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as a weather front comes in, which will begin to move south on Friday

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night, into Saturday. There is also this area of high pressure coming

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in. We will take it day by day. Brightening up through Scotland and

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Northern Ireland on Saturday, turning fresher. That fresher air

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spreads across the UK on Sunday, most places try. Not as warm, but it

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is not cold. But the air is fresher. Better air quality as well.

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That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it is goodbye from me,

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and on BBC One, we now join the BBC's news teams where you are.

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