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Arrests in Pakistan after yesterday's bombing

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which killed more than 70 - many of them children.

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As the first funerals are held for the victims there are calls

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for better co-operation between security agencies.

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Many Christians and Muslims were gathered there.

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And when we came to know that the majority was Christian,

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even the Muslims all are human beings and really, we cried.

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What Katie did - flights cancelled, trees uprooted and houses damaged

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as a storm sweeps across southern Britain.

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The first pictures inside the historic town of Palmyra -

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hours after Syrian troops recapture it from the so-called

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And warnings of an education 'crisis' - as unions claim excessive

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workloads and inadequate pay will leave schools struggling

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Security forces in Pakistan say they've arrested a number of people

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and seized weapons in the hunt for those behind yesterday's bomb

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The death toll has risen to more than 70 -

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A breakaway faction of the Pakistani Taliban claimed

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responsibility - saying it was targeting the city's

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Our correspondent Shaimaa Khalil reports now from Lahore.

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Eerily quiet this morning, the park where dozens

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Families had come here to celebrate Easter,

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but instead, were caught up in carnage.

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A place where children came to play, now the site of a massacre.

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16-year-old Sharon had been at the park with his brother.

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His mother was too distressed to speak.

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All she could tell us was the last time she saw him,

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The body of 16-year-old Sharon has just been brought outside his family

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He's just one victim among the dozens killed in yesterday's

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blasts and many families across Lahore will be mourning

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Christians were the target of the bombing by a splinter group

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Christians and Muslims, men, women and children,

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When we came to know, our hearts broke.

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We could not handle ourselves because we knew it was Sunday,

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many Christians and Muslims would be gathered there.

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And when we came to know that the majority was Christian,

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even the Muslims, all are human beings, and really, we cried.

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Pakistan's Foreign Minister Nawaz Sharif visited survivors today.

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And vowed to hunt down those responsible.

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He admitted that Pakistan's different security agencies needed

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to be better coordinated in the fight against terrorism.

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This is another attempt by government and security forces to

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show strength in the face of a national tragedy. For families

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burying their dead today any security operation will be of little

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consolation. We can speak to Shaima

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Khalil in Lahore now. The Prime Minister called for swift

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action and there have been some arrests. There have been some

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arrests. The government has announced a special security

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operation across the Punjab province. As they put it, to go

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after and crack down on militants. The minute the announcement came out

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of quiz questions on scepticism arose because people are quite

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sceptical of how able the government and security forces are in keeping

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soft target safe especially that the group who carried out the attack

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have promised more attacks on schools, on universities and also

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said they will target the government and the army. In 2014 the Taliban

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carried out an attack in the shower against the Army public school in

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which 132 children were killed. After that the military stepped up

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their campaign against the militants and pushed them back near the tribal

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areas. But today and yesterday these militants were able to infiltrate

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and plan and carry out an attack at the heart of Lahore. So people will

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be sceptical at the government and security forces capability to come

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good at promise of controlling security.

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Storm Katie has battered large parts of Southern Britain -

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leaving flights cancelled, property damaged -

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and thousands of people without power.

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Gusts of up to 106mph were recorded - as more than 100,000 homes

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were left without power at the height of the winds,

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with thousands still awaiting reconnection tonight.

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The Environment Agency has also issued 27 flood warnings

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We can go now to Robert Hall who's in Woodley in Berkshire.

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Storm Katie swept through this part of the Thames Valley at about 7:30am

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this morning with enough strength to cause the collapse that you can see

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behind me. Effectively shutting down the Woodley shopping centre. It was

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a frightening few moments at the end of what had been a wild night.

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A rude awakening after the Easter weekend.

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Storm Katie may have arrived while most of us were asleep,

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but there was no missing its journey east.

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As the storm dismantled three stories of scaffolding. Some of

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these businesses will be closed for 12 days until scaffolding is

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repaired. We also have to make sure electricity lines or anything

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untoward, making sure all the residents are safe and well

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informed. In Gosport in Hampshire a series

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of storm force gusts tore the entire Suddenly we heard this tremendous

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crash and the whole building shook And that kind of got us out

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of bed quite quickly. The storm had tracked

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from Cornwall to the North Sea. Toppling trees, damaging buildings,

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bringing down power lines. At its peak the gale had enough

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force to twist this tower crane Along the south coast

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there were warnings of coastal flooding and ferry

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sailings were disrupted. More than 80 flights were cancelled

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at Heathrow and Gatwick airports, some fights that did attempt to make

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it in were forced to abort. An uncomfortable few minutes

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for travellers on the way home. Back in Gosport, the sun is shining

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but the clear up has some way to go. At these flats near the naval base,

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roofing installation and timbers had dropped three stories

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and crashed onto cars below. Storm Katie may have moved on,

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but there are lasting reminders Well all the locations with being

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too today, we have been impressed by the strength of the storm and the

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effect it had. Many people are thankful it did happen mostly during

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the hours of darkness. If there had been more people about with that

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amount of debris flying around, things could have been a lot more

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serious. Russia's President Putin has phoned

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Bashar al-Assad to congratulate him on the Syrian Army's recapture

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of Palmyra from so-called Islamic The army says it will now use

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the city as a strategic stronghold Palmyra is a World Heritage Site

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and there are hopes that IS may not have wreaked as much damage

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on its historic monuments Our World Affairs Correspondent

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Richard Galpin reports. Syrian troops relaxing

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in the streets of Palmyra town after what appears

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to have been a victory It took them just a few weeks

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to recapture the area which lies on a vital highway

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leading from Damascus They had significant support

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from the Russian air force. The militants took control in May

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last year and soon began a campaign of destruction. This photograph

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showing one of several ancient tombs in the area being blown up. This new

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video seems to show that the expected wholesale destruction of

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the UNESCO world Heritage site has not happened, to the relief of

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archaeologists everywhere, especially in Syria. When my son was

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born it was the most beautiful day in my life. The second most little

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day was when pub mirror was not destroyed. It was saved partly

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because the top architect refused to reveal the whereabouts of several

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valuable artefacts. He was later beheaded. The significance goes

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beyond the saving of the prized city. It is also a very significant

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strategic gain. It can be used as a base against jihadist forces. The

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Syrian army is even vowing to move against Raqqa. Viewed as the Islamic

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state's headquarters within Syria. The Russian air force would probably

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be behind all this. It has already been in action in recent months. The

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combination of air strikes and reenergised Syrian forces on the

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ground is putting President Assad and the Kremlin at the battle

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against Islamic State in this country. Western leaders are not

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come plain in. One of the largest teaching unions -

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the National Union of Teachers - says the profession is facing

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a recruitment crisis. Its annual conference in Brighton

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heard how excessive workloads and poor pay were driving teachers

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out of the classroom. The government says the vacancy rate

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in England has not got any worse - and it's spending millions

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to improve job opportunities Here's our Education

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Editor Branwen Jeffreys. Years after he left,

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Peter's back to school. He wants to be a teacher

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but can't train without GCSE maths. Then he can qualify and they can

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hire him as their drama teacher. Sitting with students who are 15,

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16, taking their GCSEs, So you've got to have a lot

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of belief in yourself and your subject to

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really want to do it. Recruiting teachers is a challenge

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in many parts of the UK. In wealthier bits of England,

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the cost of housing makes it harder. Here, in Oxford,

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the new business teacher It's no longer enough

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to put a job advertisement Last term, I was advertising

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because of promotions, English, geography, business

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studies, physics, and chemistry. And I got no responses

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to those five adverts. Since, we've managed to recruit

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but it's very difficult. Schools are getting busier

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because the number of pupils That's increasing the pressure

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to recruit more good teachers. But, already,

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there aren't enough going There are worries

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in Scotland, as well, where some teacher training places

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haven't been filled. And concerns raised

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across the border by their No teacher goes into

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teaching for the money. It certainly doesn't

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help keep you in So, with a starting salary

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of 22,000 a year, They make the complex understandable

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about 15-20% of gross salary They make the complex understandable

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and the mind-boggling at magical. In glossy adverts, teaching gets the

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hard sell. Big campaigns are underway in England and in Scotland.

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A shake-up of teacher training is promised in Wales. Ministers know

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that it is what happens here in the Three more people have been charged

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with terrorism offences after last was released today -

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with investigators saying there was not enough

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evidence to hold him. Police have released new CCTV

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pictures of the moments before As they're still trying to identify

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the man in the hat Our Europe correspondent

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Damian Grammaticas is in Brussels. Yes, those three charges were

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announced today by prosecutors. Those men were arrested in raids in

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and around Brussels. It has not been said whether they are tied directly

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to the attacks. The most significant development was the release of this

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man, the only figure in custody charged with terrorist murders.

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Police it was understood were trying to identify him as one of the

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attackers. That has not been possible. They are still looking for

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the man in the video who is still on the loose, it would appear. The

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health minister here has confirmed that four more people died in the

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attacks. For more people were injured and have since died in

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hospital, taking the death total now to 35.

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It's six months since almost 3,000 jobs were lost in Redcar

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with the closure of the SSI steelworks.

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Cheaper imports were blamed for its demise -

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bringing an end to more than a century of steel-making

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So how have the workers who lost their livelihoods fared since?

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Steel-making dominated this part of the world for over 150 years.

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If you had a job here, you had a job for life.

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There is Teesside steel in the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

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But last autumn the industry was hit by a drop in prices

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It meant that here in Redcar, where the site was mothballed once

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before, production of slab steel finally came to an end.

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Today some of those workers have rebuilt their lives.

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Six months ago I just thought my world had ended.

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We thought the rug had been pulled from under our feet.

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How can we afford this mortgage, how can we afford to keep things going?

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Now I have my own company cleaning carpets and doing upholstery.

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People are starting to use us and work is coming in,

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Now I work for a company that manufactures excavators.

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Six months ago it was terrible, applying for a seven or eight jobs

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a day, very rarely hear anything back after the applications

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But now I have got this job, I'm working with a really good bunch

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But what about the hundreds of others hit by SSI's closure?

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2915 people have lost their jobs from SSI and its supply chain.

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1212 are no longer claiming benefit because most

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And 724 jobs have been created or safeguarded.

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But one steel union is questioning those figures today.

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The Community Union says many former workers over the age of 50

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are using their pensions to support themselves,

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so they don't show up on the claimant count.

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People in Redcar are also unconvinced.

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They fear the town is still moving in the wrong direction.

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To me Redcar is just going down and down.

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They're saying all these people have found jobs,

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but the people we know at SSI haven't.

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We have been down, but we're going to go back up.

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While there is some optimism here on Teesside, other steel

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communities in the UK are bracing themselves for more job losses.

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They will be watching Redcar closely to see if a town built

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on steel-making can truly turn itself around.

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Now before we go - after blaming leaves on the line

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and the wrong kind of snow for previous delays -

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now comes the koala on the carriageway.

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The marsupial caused motorists to put on the brakes

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near Brisbane in Australia when it wandered into the road.

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A police officer made sure the animal made it to safety

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and it eventually took shelter in a tree.

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We're back with the late news at 10.40.

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Now on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.

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