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Child refugees in Europe - the government bows to pressure

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and says it will accept some of them.

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They've made the dangerous journey by land and sea -

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now some could be given a home in Britain

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We are going to do more for children

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who are already registered in Europe.

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The Afghan children surviving on their own -

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a special report from the refugee camp in Calais.

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We'll be looking at what's prompted this shift

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Jailed - the gang who conned pensioners out of a million pounds -

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Adding insult to injury - an abusive call to the mother whose

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son died in the care of Southern Health NHS Trust.

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On TV all the time, um, slating the NHS Southern Health...

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Last man standing - Donald Trump is now the Republican

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candidate after his closest rivals pull out of the presidential race.

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And coming up in the sport on BBC News -

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Manchester City are 90 minutes away from their first

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Champions League final - they need a win

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or a score draw tonight against Real Madrid to go through.

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Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

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David Cameron has signalled a shift in so, government policy,

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saying Britain will accept unaccompanied child refugees

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Up till now ministers have insisted that such a move would simply

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encourage refugees to make the dangerous journey to Europe

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Our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg reports.

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cold, crying, alone. If child refugees on their own make it to

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Europe's shores, where should they go next? The government has always

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said that it is best if they never even make this dangerous journey.

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Help at their home and in Eastern Africa is more effective, they say.

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But for months, he has rejected calls to take children directly from

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mainland Europe. But no more. We are already taking those with a direct

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family connection and will speed that up. We are looking to do more

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particularly with children who did come here before the EU- Turkey deal

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was signed. A victory for those who have been pushing the Prime Minister

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for months. Labour, Tories, Lib Dems, campaigners with refugees here

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in Greece who even last week had this blistering attack hit a brick

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wall. This is putting this house and this country to shame. We think we

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help them by taking them from the refugee camps, taking them from

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Lebanon, taking them from Jordan. That is what we are doing. We have a

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proud record and nothing to be ashamed of. Ministers have promised

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to take 23,000 refugees from the region over the next few years. For

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the first time, they will open the door to unaccompanied child refugees

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already in Europe who don't have family connections. No one at

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Westminster can say how many will come but in the short-term, David

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Cameron has avoided a vote on the issue next week. This plan has been

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hard won. MPs have been trying to persuade ministers that they have to

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budge. Today it is ministers trying to convince MPs that they have

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budged enough. It has not been seamless. In the last 36 hours,

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there have been five different versions of the plant but it seems

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it is enough to stop the government being beaten next week. Tremendous

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news. Waiting to see the detail after the local elections on

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Thursday but as it stands, we will be offering sanctuary to child

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refugees in Europe who came before the new Turkey deal. But councils

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are under huge pressure to look after refugees who have already made

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Britain their home. The resources are not there to support the young

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people who have already made the journey to the UK. We need to ensure

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that there is money so councils are not faced with a choice between

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closing libraries or funding Thunderball care for elderly people

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and supporting children. This power play in Westminster might just make

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a difference to some of these scenes.

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Many of those child refugees find themselves on their own

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in a camp in Calais - often referred to as "The Jungle".

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Aid workers say that some are abused and exploited by traffickers.

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Our Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet

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has been talking to Afghan and Syrian teenagers hoping

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A cold, bleak morning in Calais. Boys straggle back to the shanty

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town to sleep. Another long night of trying to make it to Britain

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illegally, and failing. Another day in the squalid camp they call the

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Jungle. A hard life for grown-ups fleeing conflict and hardship.

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Imagine what it is like for children on their own. They are scarred, and

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scared. But the Afghan boys at the centre say they won't stop until

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they reach family and a new future in Britain. They don't want to show

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their faces. TRANSLATION: Last night I jumped into a lorry, the driver

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found me is sleep. I was taken to a detention centre. By the time they

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let me go, it was midnight. It took me four hours to walk back, training

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and freezing cold. I didn't know the way. I was very scared. This shack

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is home for 16-year-old Hassan who fled to Syria on his own six months

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ago. Today his older neighbour is making a window to let in sunlight.

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A godsend for a vulnerable boy. At night, in your tent, what do you

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dream about? TRANSLATION: I dream of getting to Britain to be with my

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family. He is trying to get in through existing EU rules. Only a

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small number succeed. He is being helped by a British family. Are you

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worried it is claimed to create an incentive to more families to send

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youngsters on these perilous duties? We say the government has a moral

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and legal obligation to do more now. I see children every day struggling

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under the pressures of trying to make it to Europe, but also from

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exploitation and from Human Trafficking Centre. The question is

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how many will follow. Laura is in Westminster. The Prime

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Minister has shifted ground but we don't have many details. There is

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certainly wriggle room on all of this. There is no guarantee on a

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total number of refugees who will be allowed to come to Britain. There is

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no guarantee of where the money will come from although I am told that

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cash will be made available from somewhere in central government.

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Number ten is adamant that this is not a climb-down or a U-turn. They

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are saying that this specifically relates to children already in

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mainland Europe before Easter, so they are not encouraging more to

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come in future. That fact they have warned against for such a long time.

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Sometimes politicians do the right thing for the wrong reason.

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Sometimes they do the wrong thing for the right reason. In this case,

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whatever of very real concerns exist, the government has budged

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before it was forced to do so. It was looking more likely by the hour

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that they would have been forced into a climb-down being defeated in

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Parliament on this issue next week. Eight men who conned dozens

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of pensioners out of more

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than a million pounds have been jailed

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for a total of 37 years. The gang posed as police officers

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and some of the money ended up being used by British men

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who travelled to Syria and are feared to have links

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with so-called Islamic State. One of their victims,

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who was conned out of ?130,000 Our Home Affairs Correspondent

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June Kelly has the story. The victims of this

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fraud lived in areas More than ?1 million

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was stolen from 140 money funded travel to Syria by men

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who had gone out there from the UK and are feared to have

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links to Islamic State. elderly person and pretended to be

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police officers and would tell them their bank account

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was being defrauded. They instructed their victims

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to go to their banks and The pensioners then trusted

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their savings to the criminals In some cases delivering

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cash straight into their One of their victims

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was Elizabeth Curtis who is 73. She doesn't want her face showing

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but she does want to talk about

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what the scams have done to her. She was robbed of her life

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savings of ?130,000. When I first learned I was scammed,

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I thought, can I live with myself for having

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lost so much money? The thought of suicide did

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pass through my mind. But then I realised

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it wasn't the answer. Today at the Old Bailey,

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eight men have One, Nathan Fagan-Gayle,

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was a former contestant He had ?20,000 of Elizabeth Curtis'

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money and went on a spending spree. Others like the gang leader,

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Makzhumi Abukar, had links to individuals who have left

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the UK for Syria. More than half of Elizabeth

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Curtis' money went into the accounts of two men,

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Ahmed Ali and Abraham Ghebrezadik Ghebrezadik's Muslim name featured

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in an Isis membership list. The police investigation was led

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by counter-terrorism detectives from Some of that money has been used

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to facilitate travel to some individuals who have gone out

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to Syria but the rest has That is part of the challenge

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of not just tracing the money but trying to get

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compensation for the victims. There is no evidence Elizabeth's

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money was used by Islamic State but she is anxious

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it might have been. I was very upset to think

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that my money was being It is something I have

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to live with and can't do Terrorists training

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and coming back to Europe, blowing people up and that sort

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of thing, killing people is awful. The banks have reimbursed

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about a third Like other victims,

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she is now fighting to try and recover

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the rest of her money. A woman who inflicted a catalogue

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of injuries on a toddler in her care has been sentenced to life

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imprisonment, with a minimum Kandyce Downer - who's 34 -

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killed 18-month-old Keegan Downer in Birmingham last September,

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less than a year after The mother of four was convicted

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yesterday of her murder. Police in Devon are excavating

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a garden at the former home of two convicted paedophiles

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who knew the serial killers, Pauline and David Williams

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were jailed last year for a series of sex offences

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against ten boys and girls. Detectives have told the BBC

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that they're looking say they're The mother of a teenager who died

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while under the care of Southern Health NHS Trust has

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spoken of her shock after receiving an abusive answer phone message

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from someone claiming to work The caller referred to Sara Ryan

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as a "vindictive cow". She's been campaigning for changes

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at the trust which has been heavily He should be 21 with his life ahead

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of him but Connor sparrowhawk drowned in a bath under the care of

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Southern health. And an inquest jury recorded a verdict. Last week, she

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received a message. I work for southern health, I think it is awful

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that you have lost him. It was tragic. At that point, you must have

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thought it was a nice message. I get contacted a lot by people who say

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they are sorry about what happened and I assumed it was one of those

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messages. Then the call continued. I think you are a vindictive cow. On

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TV all the time slating NHS southern health. It takes a while to make

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changes anywhere and I think you want some attention that you are in

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vindictive and unpleasant. You are a nasty cow. Nobody should get a call

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like that. In these circumstances. It is wrong. The kids are upset. It

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is another kick in the teeth. Thames Valley Police and Southern health

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are investigating the cold. The trust said they were deeply

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concerned by the phone message and urged anyone with information to get

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in touch. James also suffered personal abuse when campaigning for

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accountability in the NHS. His baby son died in Cumbria. There is a

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small minority of people who view the NHS as being so precious that we

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cannot criticise it, and I think that is a really dangerous place to

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be, that we should regard something as being so precious that we cannot

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criticise it. Whether or not the collar works for Southern health, it

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is impossible to understand why anybody would leave aggrieved mother

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a bitter phone message. The government bows to pressure

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over child refugees in Europe - And still to come -

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leave it to Valkyrie - the space robot being

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designed to take on jobs Consequences

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for Tottenham and Chelsea - and officials after

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the match on Monday Just a few months ago Donald Trump

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was being written off as a no-hoper in the contest to become

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the Republican Party's candidate to run for

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President in America. Today - after his remaining rivals

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pulled out of the race - Mr Trump's selection seems

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all but certain. When that happens the property

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billionaire will be the first nominee in over 60 years to aim

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for the White House without any previous

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experience of elected office. When Donald Trump

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launched his campaign for the presidency,

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he was written off as a giant ego

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with a minuscule chance. But victory in Indiana now has

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delivered the knockout blow, making him the presumptive

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nominee and he has celebrated at Trump Tower, the New York

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skyscraper where he sealed so Never have been through anything

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like this but it is a beautiful thing to watch

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and a beautiful thing to behold. Usually so boastful and outspoken,

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the Trump who appeared last night

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was more restrained and presidential but his core message

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stayed the same. You will be so proud of this

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country very, very soon. one that was

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thought to be politically impossible Indiana was do or die

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for Ted Cruz and the stop The last realistic chance

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to block Donald Trump. The senator was buried

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in a landslide. As he made his exit from this most

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brutal of contests, an unfortunate

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collision with his wife. The winner, Donald Trump,

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is an American original, New York property tycoon

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and reality TV star whose success so far

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on the road to the White House has been

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built on much more than his wealth It is his ability to articulate

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frustrations about the economy and fears about

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Islamist terrorism, immigration,

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on Mexicans and Muslims. Donald Trump is calling

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for a complete shutdown of Muslims In a country where

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many more women vote than men, his sexism

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will count against him. You have called woman fat pigs

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on the dogs, slobs and Donald Trump's hostile

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takeover of the Republican Polls suggest he is the most

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unpopular presidential times and there are limits

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to his powers of persuasion. More than 80 thousand people have

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fled a huge wildfire in the Canadian The intense blaze forced

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the evacuation of the entire Some neighbourhoods have been

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badly damaged by the fire As yet there've been no

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reports of injuries. Tomorrow millions of people will be

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voting in elections across the UK - many of them for councils

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in England, but also for the Scottish parliament,

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and the devolved assemblies in Wales Jeremy Vine has this look

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at the political landscape. Virtually everyone in the UK

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has a vote on Thursday. Let me take you first

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to the Scottish Parliament in 2011, the last time it was contested,

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and here you see the SNP were the outright winners,

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with more than half the seats, 69. In Scotland and in Wales,

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voters have two votes. One directly elects a local

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representative and the other one Under this system, as you can see,

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Labour came a distant second - and I will bring on the other

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parties as well - and actually it is really the map that

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makes the point. Look at this wash of yellow here

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pushing Labour red back to its core. Have a look at the

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percentage from 2011. Here we see how dominant

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the SNP were that year - Actually, spool forward to 2015,

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and what do we see? If that happens, in these

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parliamentary elections in Scotland, Watch the yellow line untroubled

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in first place and, interestingly, by the end of the graph here,

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we see Labour being challenged for second by the Conservatives

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and the Lib Dems, by the way, nudged into fifth by the Green

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Party. It's a very different story

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in the Welsh Assembly where Labour In 2011, they posted

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their best result. Let's bring them on, the

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Labour seats. The same voting system

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as Scotland, by the way, here. And then we have the Welsh

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Nationalists, Plaid Cymru, The map shows where Labour

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is strongest, in the south. Densely-packed areas around Cardiff

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and Swansea tend not to be 30 is their best in

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the Welsh Assembly. The worst result they have ever had

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was 26 seats. Ukip, by the way, may get members

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elected into the Welsh Assembly for the first time

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under the list system. In Northern Ireland,

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a different picture with, The last time it was the DUP

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who were in first place. Second place, Gerry

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Adams' Sinn Fein. And then the other parties

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you can see. The Ulster Unionists, SDLP,

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Alliance and the others. Talk in Northern Ireland

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of whether maybe Sinn Fein can push the DUP, possibly even

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overtake them, on Thursday. you can find more information on the

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website. It's a NASA robot, worth over one

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and a half million pounds, which has just been

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delivered to researchers Their task: to program it to act

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like a human so it can carry out space exploration that's too

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dangerous for astronauts. Our science reporter Victoria Gill

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has had exclusive access 250 miles above the planets, the

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International Space Station has been home to more than 200

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astronauts and Robonaut. But the next generation of this type

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of robot is being developed back on planet Earth

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and it makes this one look quite You are looking through the eyes

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of a very humanlike robot. This is Nasa's 6-foot humanoid

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and designed to work in disaster zones and even go to space but it

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has just arrived here at the Edinburgh Centre

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For Robotics so programmes here can push the boundaries of how humans

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and robots work together. Worth in excess of

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?1.5 million with 44 movable joints, scanning

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lasers and cameras to this is Nasa's most

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advanced humanoid. It is a unique piece of hardware

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because there are only The team is to create a set

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of instructions that will allow this robot to understand how

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to use its body to carry You need to make it do the things

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that we take for granted. For you and me, walking,

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balancing, dextrous It comes to us naturally

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and getting a robot to do With a core set of human

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skills, it could be put to Everyday actions, to be able to do

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what a human being does. To mitigate situations

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that happen in disasters like Fukushima and do maintenance

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on the International Space Station. It is hoped humanoids could be sent

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ahead of human astronauts to explore

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the surface of Mars. But this very young

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robot is still learning. It takes several attempts to master

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every new skill. The ability to control the motion

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could have an impact closer to home. This can nicely feed into technology

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which is very relevant socially. Some of the work on exoskeletons for

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support of human disabilities, prosthetics for people who have lost

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11. The ambition is beyond this planet

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but this work could lead to technologies that could

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even save human lives. A week is a long time and weather.

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We felt like we were in the depths of winter. Today, almost on the

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brink of summer. This was taken by one of our weather watchers. Blue

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skies all the way from Blackpool to the beaches of Ibiza. The warrant

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has been building. This is where the era is coming from over the next few

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days. Even across England and Wales we saw 18 degrees. This will

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threaten some rain this evening and into the night. Pushing toward the

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Borders. The clearest conditions will be through England and Wales.

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Not as chilly as last night. Could still drop. Lots of sunshine in

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England and Wales. There will be a decaying weather front producing the

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odd spot of drizzle, misty over the hills. The sunshine, not so much in

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Scotland. Temperatures in double figures and to the South East we

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could get above 20 degrees. Warmer still on Friday, the sunshine will

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be easier in England and Wales, temperature contrast, 10 degrees in

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Aberdeen, up to 22 in London. Friday will see thunderstorms across

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England and Wales. The rain will push out of the way for Sunday, just

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about all of us will be dry. Temperatures will be shooting up.

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Maintaining a cool breeze across the coast of England. Across western

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Scotland we could hit 20 degrees as well. The warmth is coming. A

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reminder of the main story: the government bows to pressure and says

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it will accept some child refugees in Europe. It is goodbye from me.

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