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David Cameron calls the failure of the prison system in England

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Prisons should be places of hope, says David Cameron.

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He promises the biggest reforms since Victorian times.

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If we can get it right we can change lives, improve public safety and

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improve the lives of those affected. But critics say he should deal

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with overcrowding first .... More than 15 thousand without power

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as Storm Imogen batters the South The waves are trundling in at speeds

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of 90 mph, the waves unlocking us over, it's hard to stand up!

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Could leaving the EU lead to Calais style camps in Britain?

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Private Cheryl James' death at Deepcut -

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family lawyers say new evidence suggests it wasn't suicide.

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Record numbers opt for cosmetic surgery, more and more men

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are joining the queue for a nip and tuck.

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Tonight, on Reporting Scotland at 6.30.

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A new frontier for Scotland's energy industry as the massive

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new Shetland Gas terminal comes on stream.

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Also on the programme, The Scottish Cup Quarter-final draw

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is being made any moment now; we'll tell you who'll play who.

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Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

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David Cameron is promising the biggest reform of the prison

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In a speech today he called the failures of prisons

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in England and Wales - with high levels of violence

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Six new 'reform prisons' are to replace

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GPS tags could be fitted to non violent criminals,

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so they go home during the week, or on day release.

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And prison league tables would be published -

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and those with the lowest level of re-offending could get more cash.

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Here's our Home Affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford.

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David Cameron this morning, walking into a prison system where violence

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is rising, murders are at record levels and the number of prisoners

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reoffending after their prison time remains stubbornly high. A system

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that sometimes works but often does not. We need a prison system that

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does not see prisoners as liabilities to be managed but as

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potential assets to be harnessed. But the failure of our system today

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is scandalous. 46% of all prisoners will reoffend within one year of

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rerelease. And current levels of prison violence, drug taking and

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self harm should shame us all. While it is not unusual for a Prime

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Minister to make a speech about crime it is unusual for one to

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commit himself so strongly to prison reform which is perhaps why in the

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21st century so many inmates are still held in Victorian jails. At

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the heart of his proposed wholesale reform is better education. These in

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rates were learning bicycle maintenance but he also wants to

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give prison governors more power to run their jails as they see best.

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And even for staff to get bonuses where reoffending rates are low. But

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business for as say he's avoiding the biggest questions like how many

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people should be in prison in the first place. I think it has to look

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first at principles and what the purpose of prison is. What do we

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want prisons to do, who should be in prisons, what are the outcomes we

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would expect because right now they are failing and that is seen in

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reoffending rates and also the other issues. The Prime Minister wants to

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look at a new satellite tag which would allow the tagging of some

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offenders, they would keep their jobs and only go to prison at the

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weekend. Technology is not always the answer. In Brixton prison this

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afternoon I met Ensley, in for his second time behind bars and helping

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at the National prison radio station. He says it wasn't prison

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but failed to reform and the first time, it was what happened after he

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was released. Won I couldn't sort out my housing. That is what led to

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me reoffending. I felt I wasn't getting any help and advice

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frustrating. Jails in England and Wales keep offenders of the street

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but often it is only a temporary fix. The Prime Minister is now

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offers in what he calls full on prison reform. Daniel Sandford, in

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Brixton prison. With me now is Our Home

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Editor - Mark Easton. Quite a claim, the biggest reforms

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since Victorian times. The government has given itself quite a

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challenge, prisons are expensive and too many prisoners reoffend and

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another Prime Minister says they will solve both problems at the same

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time, reducing cost and improving performance simultaneously. David

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Cameron said his government could do more with less. How to square that

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circle with presence? Since coming to power the Conservatives have

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repeatedly talked about increasing local control and competition in

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prison as a way of pushing up standards without pushing up the

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cost. And we got more on that today in what was a wide ranging speech

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but as you have heard, some argue that the Prime Minister sidestepped

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the biggest issue of the more, the fact that we have so many people in

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prison, consistently high numbers. The prison population, said the

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Prime Minister, was a matter for judges, not him. But many prison

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governors will say that only when you sort out the chronic

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overcrowding will they be in a position to deal with what the Prime

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Minister admitted was a scandalous failure. Thank you.

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Winds of almost 100 miles an hour have battered parts of southern

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England and Wales - more than fifteen thousand homes

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Road, train and ferry services have been disrupted.

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Coastal areas have borne the brunt of the bad weather.

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Duncan Kennedy is in Lymington in Hampshire.

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Duncan? George, it is almost 12 hours since Storm Imogen began, and

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it is still battering parts of southern England and Wales. Here in

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Hampshire for instance the winds are still gusting at 70 files mile --

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miles per hour. It is disrupted everything, ferry and train services

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and the roads. And 15,000 homes are tonight without electricity because

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power lines have been brought down. Also tonight we've had these reports

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that two young children in the Midlands have been injured after a

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wall came down on top of them. From Devon to Dartford, the southern

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part of Britain powerful storm of the winter. This

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close, just like in Aberystwyth where mountainous waves churned over

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the seafront. This is Barton on Sea, near Bournemouth. As you can see,

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the waves are trundling in here, at speeds of 90 mph, the winds are

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mocking us over, it is hard to stand up. In some places waves have been

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14 metres high. It's been up. In some places waves have been

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like this for several hours. That did not stop people coming

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like this for several hours. That experience it for themselves. What

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do you think of this? Horrendous, absolutely horrendous. Really,

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really rough. The wind is so strong. We've just come down for a couple

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really rough. The wind is so strong. days to see the weather. Quite a

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spectacle. Hard to stand up. I can't open my car door, the wind is too

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strong! In Worcestershire this wall collapsed on two children, seriously

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injuring a boy of four and a girl of seven. It follows concerns raised

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about the war two weeks ago. Basically it hit two children in the

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process of collapsing. They were quickly removed from under the

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initial rubble and were treated on the scene by Ambulance Service

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personnel. Transport networks have been disrupted everywhere, from

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submerged tracks in Wales to blocked ones at Bodmin in Cornwall with

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passengers having to climb onto the track after the train hit a tree. We

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had to wait here all the time, we had a few classes and we have missed

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them. It's very annoying. 15,000 homes also had their electricity cut

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in this storm. After a mild, uneventful winter of weather so far

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in the South, storm Imogen has been a reminder of the season's power.

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A second inquest into the death of Private Cheryl James at Deepcut

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Barracks 20 years ago has heard that she may not

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The lawyer for the family says there's new evidence which needs

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Cheryl James, who was 18, was found with a single gunshot

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Our Home Affairs correspondent June Kelly reports.

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Cheryl James passed out from the Army in the summer of 1995.

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This footage was filmed by her family.

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Six months after she joined up, they were told she was dead.

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Cheryl, in the weeks before she was fatally injured

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with a single bullet wound to her head.

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Today her father Des described how is she seemed to thrive in the

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military and was like a burst of the Army. He and his wife Doreen have

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always questioned whether their vivacious teenager would have taken

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her own life. She was one of four recruits to die at Deepcut. Today in

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a dramatic development there by Mr Alison Foster QC said it was

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pathological evidence which showed that the shot which killed Private

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Cheryl James meant not have been self-inflicted. The barrister for

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Surrey Police, John Beggs QC, in the front, described this claim is

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extremely speculative. He was involved in highly charged exchanges

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with Cheryl's father when he questioned Mr James's criticisms of

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the police investigation. Des James said, I have lived through this, I

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know what went on. The QC questioned his contract with officers, saying,

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did it occur to you that you yourself had distracted the police?

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The coroner stopped that line of questioning. The QC later said to

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Cheryl's father, you are not the most impartial witness. The name of

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Deepcut has represented a dog episode in the history of the

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British Army. For years the families of the soldiers who died have been

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fighting to find out what happened at the base. Now with this

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first new inquest the death of Cheryl James will be examined in

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detail in a public forum. This has never happened before. Des James was

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asked about claims that Cheryl might have been depressed. He said he was

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not aware of it and she was fine the last time the family had seen her,

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on her 18th birthday. David Cameron has been

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accused of scaremongering after Downing Street warned

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that the numbers of asylum seekers coming to the UK would increase

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if Britain left the European Union. The prime minister said he did not

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want to give the French an excuse to tear up a deal that allows UK

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border staff to check Here's our deputy political

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editor, James Landale. It is called the Jungle, a makeshift

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camp in the north of France with its own libraries and war and scholar.

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Thousands of migrants who David Cameron said could end up in Britain

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if we vote to leave the European Union and France sends border staff

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home. There are any number of opposition politicians in France who

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would love to tear up the excellent agreement we have with funds to make

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sure that we have our borders on their side of the channel. I don't

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think we should give those politicians any excuse to do that.

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The deal he talks about was agreed by Tony Blair in 2003. It allowed

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British border officials to check and block asylum seekers on French

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soil. S instead of declaring refugees from Calais, as was hoped,

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they continued to come. Now French politicians warned that they could

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tear up the Treaty of Britain left the EU. The Prime Minister is right

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to say that France would probably break the treaty and we'd go back to

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the types of numbers that we had, 80,000 plus, before that treaty was

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made, in 2003. But instead of gathering in one camp like in Cali

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officials claimed that many of these migrants would probably spread out

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across the south of England with only some of them held in detention

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centres. David Cameron is making this warning because he wants people

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to be aware of what he sees as one risk of leaving the EU. The danger

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is that if the strategy backfires and people think he's being alarmist

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is no longer making the positive case for staying in. In Calais this

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week there were yet more protests against migration. In London today

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the Prime Minister's critics dismissed what they called his sad

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and disappointing tactics. Not only is it irresponsible scaremongering,

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it is wrong. First it is a treaty between Britain and France nothing

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to do with the EU, and secondly, the French government have said that if

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they had an open border with the UK to be an humanitarian disaster in

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Calais and it is not a cause they would pursue. The real risk is that

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there's nothing in the negotiation that restricts the free movement of

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people from Europe. A referendum that many thought would focus on the

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economic risks of remaining only thing in the EU will also involve a

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debate about immigration and the future of camps like these.

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Dissident Republicans have said they carried out a shooting

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in Dublin last week, in which a man was killed and two

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A man claiming to speak for the Continuity IRA told the BBC

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Our Ireland Correspondent Chris Buckler reports.

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police officers, but it is now claimed they were members of the

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continuity IRA. Everybody was forced to run for their lives as they began

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firing shots. One man was injured and the police are concerned about

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the possibility of more violence. Armed officers have made themselves

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very visible, staging checkpoints around the city. Up till now, they

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have linked it with organised crime gangs but now they need to consider

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the possibility that dissident Republicans were involved. In a

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statement, the Continuity IRA claimed the members killed the man

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in this hotel in retaliation. They said they were prepared to carry out

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other attacks against people who they called drug dealers and

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criminals. Dissident groups like the Continuity IRA present themselves as

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against the political progress that has happened in Ireland and across

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the border. But the police say it can lead them to violent conflict

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with other gangs. The claim by this group calling themselves the

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Continuity IRA, it does not matter what they call themselves, they

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cannot be allowed to act in this manner. There is no way of verifying

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the claim but the Irish police have spent a third day gathering evidence

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at the hotel where the shooting took place and they've

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at the hotel where the shooting took pictures, some of which show the gun

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men running from the hotel carrying a

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The top story this should be places of hope says David

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Cameron but critics say he should sort out the overcrowding first.

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Still to come... The Denver Broncos got the victory

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but it was Beyonce who stole the show.

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And coming up on Reporting Scotland at 6.30...

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All the action of amputee football is coming to Scotland

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Scientists in Edinburgh have developed an IQ test especially

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It's been described as the UK's biggest engineering project

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Gas is coming onshore from a major new plant on Shetland.

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It's expected to provide eight percent of all the UK's gas needs

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That's enough to power around 2 million homes.

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The Laggan-Tormore project is a massive ?3.5bn development

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But - with the recent collapse in energy prices -

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there's concern over whether the investment will pay off.

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Yes, this very big, very expensive development is accessing previously

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untapped fields. The turning on of the gas comes at a difficult time

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for the wider offshore industries. It has taken five years, billions of

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pounds and thousands of workers to build it. Here is fresh gas from the

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newly capped reserves, coming out to shore. This project has pushed the

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limits of what is possible. This is one of the longest in the world, and

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the deepest in the UK. We are pushing the boundaries rather than

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the technology but even then we are stretching that as well. Getting the

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gas as sure is technically challenging. There is this huge gas

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plant but a really significant part of what is going on is taking place

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miles out to sea. There are no platforms to be seen. There are long

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pipelines which transport the gas almost 100 miles back to shore. But

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this was all commissioned when the price of oil and gas was far more

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buoyant. It is not clear how profitable it will be. We need to

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look at it long term. I think the big focus is to make sure these

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fields operate in the most cost-effective manner.

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fields operate in the most have commissioned it in the current

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climate given the slump in their product? It is a difficult question.

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I think this project had some difficult points. Very

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I think this project had some say whether we could sanction it or

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not. These islands have been sheltered from the worst of the

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downturn. Shetland is the only place in Britain to have a sovereign

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wealth fund worth hundreds of millions of pounds. It has meant a

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tremendous amount to Shetland. It was a pure place for thousands of

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years and has been prosperous for the last 40 or so. The water west of

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Shetland could hold a fifth of the remaining gas reserves. It is

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important not just for the islands but for Britain's energy security in

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the years to come. A brief look at some of the day's

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other other news stories... Twelve men who sexually exploited

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a vulnerable teenage girl in Keighley, West Yorkshire have

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received jail sentences of up Eleven of the men were convicted

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of raping the girl when she was aged Lib Dem Orkney and Shetland MP

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Alistair Carmichael has lost a bid to have his legal fees

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paid after a challenge Four constituents claimed he misled

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voters over a leaked memo before However he will not be

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covered for expenses The number of Welsh pupils applying

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for the UK's top two universities is proportionally below those applying

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for the rest. The number of people choosing

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to have cosmetic surgery has hit Just over 51,000 people had some

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sort of procedure last year - And - as Sian Lloyd reports -

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more and more men are opting Famous faces who are used to looking

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good. That can mean the odd nip or tuck, but more than ever people are

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thinking about their appearance and paying to change it. This woman

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spent ?1 million on procedures and regrets it. People thought it was

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the quick fix to cheating mother nature,

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He is one of a growing number of men wanting to change his appearance. It

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will give me the results I need and I had no problem thinking it was

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cosmetic surgery. Tattooed removal might be relatively simple but

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surgeons say patients should think carefully. It is not going to change

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your life, just a small aspect, but if that makes people feel happy

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about themselves it is a positive benefit. Wanted was for the rich and

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famous cosmetic work is within the reach of more people now. Men are

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increasingly thinking about their looks.

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A school in the Indian city of Bangalore had an unwelcome

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visitor over the weekend when a male leopard broke in.

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Six people, who were hurt trying to capture the big cat,

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have been treated for minor injuries.

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It took nearly 10 hours to catch the leopard which had wandered

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It's estimated that India has a leopard population

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of between twelve and fourteen thousand.

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The animal was eventually tranquilised and released back

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The Denver Broncos may have have beaten the Carolina Panthers to win

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the American Football Superbowl - but it was the singer Beyonce's

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half-time performance which stole the show -

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With more than 100 million Americans watching, Beyonce chose to make a

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statement at the Super Bowl. This was a black power anthem, complete

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with defiant fests and headwear reminiscent of the Black Panther

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movement, born in the racial turmoil of the 1960s. After the performance,

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some of the dancers held a sign asking for justice for Mariel Woods.

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He was shot dead, reportedly because he refused to put down a knife. The

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new video hammers home the message, stop shooting us. On social media

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there was much praise for Beyonce. There was criticism as well, with

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comments such as the following. This was a reminder that this country has

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not settled its differences. At times it felt like Beyonce was

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asking a question of her fellow Americans, which side are you on?

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What about the storms? Here is the weather. Thankfully, this dramatic

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scene has been taken at a distance, but even inland there has been on

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destruction. Trees have been uprooted. By stark contrast, in the

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eye of the storm it has been beautifully calm. This shot was

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taken in the Trossachs. The strong wind will modulate but there will

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still be some waves overtopping the coast. This whether further north

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but still further north will be a bright and crisp frosty start. Then

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there is that wetter weather. Quite a lot of rain and hill snow as well.

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Further south, the wind will not be as strong, there will be sunshine,

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there will be a net in the air but it will be much more serene. Further

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north, this band of wet weather will slip southwards. Some snow over the

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high ground which should not cause too many problems. Most of us will

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see sunshine. It will feel cold, and that will continue through the rest

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of the week, fast forward to Wednesday. Some showers across the

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far north-west. In between, plenty of Sunni and cold weather. Looking

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further ahead towards the end of the week and it looks as though another

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area of low pressure will come in from the west. Not a damaging wind

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but there is a prospect of rain. It will be a long way off. Thank you.

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That is all from the BBC's news at six and it

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