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War and peace - David Cameron says stay in the EU to maintain stability

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in Europe, the Leave campaign says Number Ten has "lost the plot".

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The Prime Minister argues the EU has fostered peace

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The Leave campaign calls it a force for instability and alienation.

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Britain has a fundamental national interest in maintaining common

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purpose in Europe, to avoid future conflict between European countries.

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I don't think the Prime Minister can seriously believe that leaving

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the EU would trigger war on the European continent.

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We'll be looking at the EU's record on trying to resolve conflicts

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The teenager murdered 32 years ago - now a man has been jailed,

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Seven years after it began, the long awaited Chilcot Inquiry

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report into the Iraq war will be published in July.

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New research suggests claims patients are more likely to die

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at weekends is based on flawed data and is untrue.

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And China sets its sights on footballing glory -

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and aims to build 50,000 football schools within ten years.

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And coming up in the sport on BBC News: Michel Platini will resign

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as Uefa president after failing to have his ban

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Platini says he's deeply disappointed by the decision.

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Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

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Peace in Europe could be at risk if Britain votes to leave

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That's the stark warning from David Cameron who claims the EU

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has helped maintain order and stability on the continent

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But Boris Johnson has hit back for the Leave campaign,

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arguing that coming out of the EU wouldn't be a trigger for war.

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And pointing out that only a few months ago the Prime Minister had

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suggested people should vote to leave the EU if it failed

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Our political editor Laura Kuenssberg has been listening

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Fighting over the flag. The top commanders of the rival campaigns

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vying to claim the mantle. Subtle it was not. The Prime Minister's

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backdrop was a museum which tells the story of so many battles lost

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and won, to give his gravest warning yet, if you vote to leave the EU, it

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could be a step towards future wars. The rows of white headstones in

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lovingly tended Commonwealth War cemeteries stand this silent

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testament to the price this country has paid to help restore peace and

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order in Europe. Can we be so sure that peace and stability on our

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continent are assured beyond any shadow of doubt? Is that a risk

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worth taking? And would never be so rash as to make that assumption. The

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lesson from history, he claims, whether Spitfires in the skies or

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soldiers in the trenches, Britain was proud alone, but Europe has been

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safer United. As this Prime Minister hoped, and

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today's leader quoted Churchill's vision. Isn't this warning at best

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alarmist, vision. Isn't this warning at best

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given that three months ago you said you would be willing to lead us out

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of the union? you would be willing to lead us out

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my mind the European Union has helped bring former

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together. Until now, the government was using its full force to say we

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together. Until now, the government would be poorer if we left the EU.

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The shiny diplomatic cars parked up at today's speech showed the

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argument over our place in the world is well and truly on. To the anger

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of some, the In campaign circulated a video of veterans' testimonies.

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But that argument was turned on its head by the Out campaign's biggest

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draw. I saw for myself the disaster in the Balkans when the EU was

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charged and mandated with sorting out the former Yugoslavia, and I saw

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how it was Nato and the American led alliance that had to come in and

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sort it out. It is now I am afraid the EU itself, and it's

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anti-democratic tendencies, that are now a force for instability and

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alienation. Do you think David Cameron is telling the truth when he

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is telling voters leaving the EU would risk peace and our continent?

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The answer is no, I did believe that leaving the EU would cause world War

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three to break out on the European continent. This site needs plenty of

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shoe leather to make their arguments, not least as Boris

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Johnson burst into song in German. Yes, some in German, to kill

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accusations they are not just backward looking little Englanders.

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But the past does loom over this campaign. The history of this

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country and the Tory party who have split time and again over Europe.

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This is such a big decision about our place in the world. It is not

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surprising that both sides want to try and take the patriotic high

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ground. But their conflicts are personal as well as political. This

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is about war and peace in the Tory party as well. As the referendum

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battle really starts to roar, it is hard to see how they will after call

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a truce. Our diplomatic correspondent

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James Robbins is with me here. James how successful or otherwise

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has the EU been in trying That is the fundamental question.

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The way the Prime Minister talks about the past, he is talking not

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just about the two world wars of the first part of the 20th century, but

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also a past of bloody conflict in continental Europe stretching across

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many centuries. Since 1945, Europe has enjoyed 70 years of almost total

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peace. That for many can be partly attributed to the success of

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European political integration through the European committee and

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European Union. But for others, who believe we should leave not remain

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in the EU, it is really the triumph of Nato, not the EU. We have heard

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some of that argument. Today, it is interesting that Lord Owen, a former

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Foreign Secretary who switched sides, said he believes we should

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leave. His experience from the Balkans is that the EU messed up and

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further, he thinks the EU is partly to blame for Lance in Russia in

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Ukraine, for sparing Russia into hostilities. It is a very divided

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argument. All we know now is that history is as much disputed about

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the vision of the past, as it is about the vision of the future.

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Thank you. A man has been jailed today

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for the murder of a teenager Christopher Hampton was caught

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after police matched DNA from the clothing of 17-year-old

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Melanie Road to a member of Hampton's family

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on the national database. From Bristol, our correspondent

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Jon Kay reports. It was 1984 and Melanie Road

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was studying for her A-levels. She had been out clubbing

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with her friends, but on the way home she was sexually

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assaulted and stabbed to death. Melanie walked back

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on her own at that night. It is only about half a mile

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from the centre of Bath Her body was discovered by a milkman

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the next morning, next to some garages in

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a quiet cul-de-sac. The police found drops

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of the killer's blood at the scene, and on the pavement nearby,

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and over the years, thousands of local men have

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provided DNA samples, Then last year, scientists found

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similarities with DNA taken from a She was the daughter of this man,

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Christopher Hampton from Bristol. He in turn was tested, and there was

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a complete match. Now 32 years later, he has

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admitted murdering Melanie. Melanie's mum said she can't believe

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Hampton could murder a girl he didn't know and hide

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his secret for so long. I always said if I got hold of him,

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I would strangle him or stick a knife into him, and that

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is how I felt. I wouldn't even use

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my energy up on him. I feel he should be shut up

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in a dungeon like they used to in Over the decades, 700 officers

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have worked on the case. They hoped science would eventually

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identify the killer. I have been working on this case

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for seven years, and I just knew it and if you ask anybody,

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they will tell you. Christopher Hampton

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was told he would serve at least Given that he is now in his 60s,

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the judge said Jon Kay BBC News,

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Bristol Crown Court. It began taking evidence

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seven years ago. Its final report is expected to be

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more than two million words long. A date has at last been announced

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for the long awaited report by the Chilcot Inquiry

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into the Iraq war - July the 6th. Let's talk to our political

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correspondent Vicky Young Just remind us what the inquiry has

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been looking into and why Well, it was set up by Gordon Brown

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back in 2009, to look at the decision that was made to go to war

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and the aftermath. Sir John Chilcot always said it was not about

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apportioning blame, but there is likely to be criticism, of Tony

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Blair, some of his ministers and of generals, the way they failed to

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plan for the aftermath. What would happen after Saddam Hussein was

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toppled? There was a huge scope to this enquiry. The panel saw 150,000

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government documents. One delay was caused by a row about how much of

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the communication between Tony Blair and President Bush should be

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published. The families of those killed in Iraq have been dismayed by

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this long delay. They will at least get advanced sight of it on July the

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6th. Thank you. Several of Britain's biggest

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construction firms - including Balfour Beatty

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and McAlpine - have agreed to pay out ?50 million in compensation

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to builders denied work because they were on a secret

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blacklist Over 700 construction

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workers involved will share payouts of between ?20,000

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and ?200,000 each. The GMB union claims many

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were blacklisted for raising Claims that hospital patients

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are more likely to die at weekends That's according to new research

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by Oxford University which says the variation in mortality rates

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is down to differences The so-called weekend effect has

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been a key factor behind the Government's push to change

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junior doctors' contracts Our patients going into hospital at

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weekends more likely to die at a certain time than those are admitted

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on weekdays? It has turned into a highly controversial debate, as the

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government calls for better NHS services on Saturdays and Sundays.

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We are absolutely determined to eliminate the weekend effect which

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these 11,000 excess deaths each year. It has become a key issue in

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the junior doctors dispute. Ministers argued more staff are

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needed at weekends to cut excess deaths. Junior doctors say they

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already worked on Saturdays and Sundays and challenge the idea of a

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weekend effect. Now one expert has questioned the data. We certainly

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found no evidence when we put together the high-quality studies.

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It really is an excellent at sample of how poor quality data badly

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interpreted can lead to the wrong answer. The study found some of the

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data behind death rates was wrong. Of stroke admissions, more than 600

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were actually for routine problems leave in -- leading to a false

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impression that weekday admissions were safer. This report did not

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invalidate earlier research which pointed to excess deaths among

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patients who go into hospital at weekends. The study last year was a

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large study of 50 million patients and showed a definite weekend effect

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of the risk of mortality if you are admitted at a weekend. In terms of

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NHS England's policy, we believe we have to provide consistently better

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care for patients at weekends. The Health Secretary was challenged on

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this at a parliamentary hearing today. I think, without getting into

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my academic study versus your academic study debate, I think

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actually, we can agree there is a weekend effect. This latest row over

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NHS services and death rates, comes at a sensitive time in the junior

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doctor dispute. Today, for the first time in three months, the British

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Medical Association and the government sat down for talks to try

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and resolve their differences. Whatever the outcome of the talks,

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the debate over weekend patient care and safety in English hospitals is

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far from over. David Cameron says stay

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in the EU to maintain The Leave campaign accuses

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him of desperation. And still to come -

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the tiny black dot that is the planet Mercury moving

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across the face of the Sun. Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News,

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after two years together, Andy Murray mutually agrees to split

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with coach Amelie Mauresmo. Since having a baby,

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Mauresmo said dedicating her time and the travel involved

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has been a challenge. Could the world's great

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footballing nations - Brazil, Germany, Italy -

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soon be joined by China? The Chinese government

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certainly thinks they could, and it's come up with a massive

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national plan to try to make it happen,

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led by the president, He wants 50 million Chinese people

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to be playing the game by 2020. He's ordered 6,000 pitches and

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stadiums to be built or renovated. And he's setting up 50,000 football

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schools within 10 years. Our Sports Correspondent Richard

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Conway sent this special report from Beijing.

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China is changing. The rhythm of football is taking

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hold across the most populous nation here to have the best league

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and to be the best national team One familiar face has lived

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and worked here for three years, and insists there is no end in sight

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for the game's rapid growth. Recently, this season,

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it's gone crazy. The big foreign names,

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they were not really Only when they are getting

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older, on the way down. But now, even when they are

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at their peak, they are When Guangzhou Sunning took Ramires

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from Chelsea and Liverpool lost out on Brazilian striker

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Alex Teixeira earlier this year, they became the biggest spending

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Chinese club and the world China's leading players' agent

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leaves more stars will now follow. We had a saying, the only two

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players not coming to China in this window were

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Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi! Other names, it's

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all highly possible. It's here in Tiananmen Square that

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China's political power is centred. It's also been the location for some

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of the darker moments from its past. But resident Xi Jinping is firmly

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focused on China's future. He wants the country to be a global

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leader in football, hosting A football-supporting President has

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motives beyond sport, though. There is an ambition to diversify

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the economy and for China to exert Two hours drive east of Beijing lies

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the rural farming town of Pingu. It's here that the President's plan

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is starting to take shape. It's home to this elementary school,

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which lies in the shadow These six and seven-year-olds

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are pioneers. They attend one of China's first

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designated football schools and provide a first glimpse

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of their President's vision I just want you to practice walking

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around with the ball. The unlikely American forging

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a new path for the people's republic is Tom Bier, having achieved

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cult status in Japan, contributing to their football

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development, he's been headhunted The economy surpassed Japan, they

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are the number two economy. They are putting rockets into space, the

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country is good, but they can't be countries like Thailand in a

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football match. If a country knows about manufacturing success, it's

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China. Everything appears to be in place but it might take patients. It

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could be another generation before we see a World Cup victory made in

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China. Richard Conway, BBC News, Beijing.

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The owner of an Indian restaurant has gone on trial

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accused of the manslaughter of a customer who suffered

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Paul Wilson died in 2014 after eating a takeaway curry.

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He had told the restaurant his meal had to be free of nuts.

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Mohammed Zaman from York is accused of repeatedly ignoring warnings

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he could be putting his customers' lives at risk.

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He denies manslaughter by gross negligence.

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Danny Savage is at Teeside Crown Court.

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Danny, what is the prosecution trying to prove?

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Mohammed Zaman didn't actually serve Paul Wilson that dish on the 90

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died. But what he did do as owner of the restaurant was make decisions

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about the ingredients used in the dishes they sold. -- on the night he

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died. One of those dishes contained groundnut powder which contains

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peanuts, and that was served in dishes, even to people who told

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staff they had a peanut allergy. Paul Wilson, a 38-year-old assistant

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manager at a North Yorkshire pub and a man who knew he'd had a severe

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peanut allergy since he was a boy. Following an afternoon

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here in Easingwold, Paul Wilson came to the Indian Garden restaurant,

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which used to be in this building. Conscious of his nut allergy,

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he specifically ordered He took it back to his lodgings

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and ate it. Mohammed Zaman owned

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the Indian Garden. The jury was told to cut costs

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he stopped using almond powder in dishes, which is less likely

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to cause a reaction, and used cheaper groundnut powder

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containing peanuts instead. The jury was told Mr Zaman had

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a reckless and cavalier attitude to risk, put profit before safety

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and cut corners at every turn. And it's claimed he had received

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numerous warnings beforehand. A 17-year-old girl with the allergy

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had been hospitalised after being served a meal with nuts

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at one of his other restaurants. Trading Standards also found

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dangerously high levels of peanuts in a supposedly nut-free

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meal from here. Yet the prosecution says

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the defendant did absolutely nothing to change his menus or practices,

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therefore he is responsible Danny Savage, BBC News,

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Teesside Crown Court. Hundreds of passengers on a British

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cruise to North America have Health officials say more

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than 250 people on board the Balmoral have now contracted

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the winter vomiting bug. Those infected have been told

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to remain in their cabins for 48 hours, while the cruise

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continues as planned. A second man has been arrested

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in connection with the death from the Royal Gibraltar Regiment,

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was found injured and unconscious in He was taken to hospital,

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but later died. A 23-year-old man was also arrested

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yesterday on suspicion of murder. Now, you can hardly miss it -

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the referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union

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is less than two months away, and all this week we'll be trying

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to explain what's at stake. Our Europe Correspondent

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Damian Grammaticas has our first referendum guide -

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about the different institutions within the EU, how they work

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and what they control. The EU, as it says on the tin,

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is a union, a club more than half So too is the United States of

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America. But compared to America,

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the EU's population is far bigger. And its combined economies

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rival the US. The EU is the world's

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biggest single market. People and goods, money

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and services, flowing freely. And there is the Euro,

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now used by 19 nations and more To make this market work,

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EU countries have removed some borders and pooled

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some decision-making. They gather regularly to take big

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decisions jointly, such as on the migrant crisis,

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and set the EU's priorities. Government ministers

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from each country do. They meet their counterparts every

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month. When they are co-ordinating economic

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policy, it's the Chancellor They, together with the elected

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European Parliament, And to keep the EU running,

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are 55,000 civil servants. The UK Government employs

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six times the number. Most of the EU's civil servants work

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for the Commission. It's independent of governments,

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draws up the laws and make sure The European Court rules on any

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disputes and a central bank Well, it has sole power

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to strike trade deals. It makes competition rules

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like capping mobile roaming charges, The EU shares with member states

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the power to act in areas like the rights of

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workers and consumers, protecting the environment,

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and its powers are growing. It oversees banks in countries that

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use the euro and monitors levels of national debt and deficit

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in all EU nations. It helps coordinate border controls,

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has a bill of rights for EU citizens, embassies around

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the world, even peacekeeping troops. So, this union is economic,

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but political too, growing If you want to take a second look,

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you can watch that again on the BBC website, and you can find out more

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about the EU referendum and the facts on both

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side of the arguments It's 60 million miles away, and it's

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travelling at 30 miles per second. Right now the planet Mercury

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is passing in front of the surface of the Sun and Britain is one

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of the best places in the world As our Science Editor David Shukman

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reports, it's kept thousands of amateur and professional

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astronomers enthralled Against the vast fiery

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backdrop of the Sun, the tiny shape of Mercury slipping

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through space and lined up so that we get a spectacular

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view of it from Earth. This only happens about 14

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times every century. The sight is a reminder of how

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the solar system works. Are you OK to line it

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up on the Sun as well? In London and around the world,

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people gathered for a glimpse of the little planet that is closest

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to the Sun. The Royal Astronomical Society

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laid on a variety of All you can see is a small black

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dot, but the sight of this distant Despite being a tiny dot, it has

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an incredible beauty of its own. The last time I saw this was back

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in 2003, so I'm just as excited Most people here will never have

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seen anything like this. The overwhelming majority

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of the world's population probably Those things together make it

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something to celebrate. A lot about Mercury

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is still a mystery. In this image from a Nasa

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spacecraft, the colours represent the highs and lows of a landscape

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battered by meteorites It's a planet that has

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long been fascinating. A couple of hundred years ago,

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astronomers studied planets like Mercury to measure

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their distance from Earth, and so try to calculate the size

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of the Solar System. Today is just about

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a very exciting sight. So, from a distance of 48 million

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miles, we have been able to watch this strange world racing past

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the turbulent surface of the Sun. A journey of seven hours

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is now almost over. Time for a look at the weather -

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here's John Hammond. Stunning picture here in the Western

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Highlands. The mercury has been rising across this part of the

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world. We hit 27 degrees earlier this afternoon. You will see the

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warmth but also the cloud across the south-west with thunderstorms

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developing through the Thames Valley and southern parts of Wales in the

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last few hours. Rumbling away through the evening and edging

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further west. Watch out if you are on the move, nasty downpours across

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the Midlands and Wales, and then a respite before more rain arriving

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from France later this evening in the south. Under the clear skies

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across Ireland and Scotland, it will be quite chilly. The best of the

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sunshine once more tomorrow, a lovely day to come in contrast to

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the wet weather in the south. The rain will be quite heavy with

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rumbles of thunder spiralling north and west as we go through the day. A

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day of contrast again. 24 degrees again across the Western Highlands

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of Scotland. again across the Western Highlands

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contrast it with the East Coast, where the onshore breeze in the last

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few days the temperatures have been pegged back. Lovely day for

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Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England as

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Scotland, Northern Ireland and in the day the rain will edge up

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Scotland, Northern Ireland and into South Yorkshire and Lancashire.

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Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wet weather for the Midlands in the

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afternoon, for Wales and the south-west as well. It might

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brighten up in the south-east but watch out for heavy showers. Some

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wet weather around tomorrow. The rain edging northwards by Wednesday.

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Grinding to a halt across northern England and Northern Ireland. Either

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side, some fine weather but with showers across the South. Humid air.

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Temperatures in the low 20s in the south, but as we end the week it

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looks like we will lose the warm air and it will turn more fresh from the

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North. David Cameron says stay in the EU

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to maintain stability in Europe. The Leave campaign accuses him

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of desperation. After the murder of a teenager 32

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years ago, a man has been jailed thanks to DNA breakthrough.

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

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