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The billionaire boss of Sports Direct admits

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that members of staff were sometimes paid less than the minimum wage.

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at the firm's Derbyshire warehouse, says one union.

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He says he's not Father Christmas but is ready to address issues.

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Will you find it 100% perfect? Of course you won't.

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that I obviously don't know are going on or happening.

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We'll be looking at the company's record.

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Also tonight, Chelsea's team doctor accepts a settlement

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in her discrimination case, the club apologises unreservedly.

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The Archbishop of Canterbury attacks Nigel Farage -

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he says some comments on immigration legitimise racism.

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Trapped between the White Cliffs and a rising tide -

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the teenagers rescued by lifeboats and helicopter.

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Hillary Clinton is set to become the first woman

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Votes today could confirm her nomination.

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And coming up in the sport on BBC News,

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Everton agree a deal to make Ronald Koeman their new manager.

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They'll pay Southampton around ?5 million

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Good evening and welcome to the BBC News At Six.

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It was the confrontation he'd originally tried to avoid,

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but today Mike Ashley, the founder of Sports Direct,

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faced MPs and admitted there were what he called issues

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It followed accusations by one union that there was a culture

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of fear at the company's warehouse in Derbyshire.

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And as our business correspondent Emma Simpson reports,

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Mr Ashley accepted that there were times

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when staff were paid less than the minimum wage.

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It's a journey he didn't want to make.

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Mike Ashley, one of Britain's richest men,

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the founder of Britain's biggest sports retailer.

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Have you created a culture of fear? Absolutely not.

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After months of resisting, he was finally on his way

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to face MPs, and to begin with he didn't have much to say.

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But if I may start with the review that you announced six months ago,

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what's the current status of the review?

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But he soon acknowledged some work practices needed changing.

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If you were a minute late, you got docked 15 minutes' pay.

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You ask me what I think, I think it's unacceptable.

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He was also asked about long security checks

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at the end of a shift, during which workers weren't paid.

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for example, stuff such as the bottlenecks at security,

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I don't think that's even slightly acceptable.

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Do you accept that the company was

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effectively paying workers below the minimum wage?

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On that specific point, for that specific bit of time, yes.

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It all happened here at Sports Direct's

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vast distribution centre in Derbyshire, manned around the clock

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by thousands of temporary agency workers, many from Eastern Europe.

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But it's alleged it was more of a workhouse than a warehouse.

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This BBC programme revealed a culture of fear.

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Stuart Young was a security guard here.

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It feels like something out of Dickens, the way it's run.

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Finding urine bottles in the warehouse,

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they can't go to the toilet unless it's their break time.

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Today, the union claimed it led to people

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coming to work when they weren't well

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and countless ambulance call-outs to the site.

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You will see there were strikes in there, there were

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five births or miscarriages or pregnancy-related issues in there,

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one of which was someone giving birth within a toilet,

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and the last one happened in November of 2015.

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This was Mike Ashley on a recent visit to the site.

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Today he reckoned such a high level of serious incidents

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was impossible here, and last year Sports Direct

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said its workers were free to use the toilet as needed.

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Mr Ashley told MPs he couldn't be everywhere all the time.

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I'm not Father Christmas, I'm not sitting there,

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"Oh, I'm going to make the world wonderful."

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You just have to try and get a balanced view

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and say, "As an individual, would you tolerate that?"

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And if I honestly believe it isn't, I change it.

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Do you think your company has outgrown your ability to manage it?

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He left pledging to make further changes if needed.

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He knows he's now got to get himself and his retail empire

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And a backdrop to all of this, George, is that this is a business

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that grew incredibly fast, in Mike Ashley's own words, from an

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inflatable dinghy to an oil tanker overnight, and that clearly has been

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difficult to manage. He said he couldn't have done it without all

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these agency workers, but it's these workers, the union claims, who are

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paid the price for the cheap goods is business sells.

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Emma, many thanks. Chelsea has apologised unreservedly

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after it settled a discrimination case with the team's former

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doctor, Eva Carneiro. when Ms Carneiro ran onto the pitch

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to treat a player, despite objections from the

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club's manager, Jose Mourinho. "fulfilling her responsibility

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to the players as a doctor." Today was supposed to be Dr Eva

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Carneiro's big moment in court, but when Jose Mourinho, the most famous

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manager in world football, arrived unexpectedly, accompanied by senior

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figures from Chelsea, it was the signal that a settlement agreement

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was close to being reached. The roots of the dispute stem back to

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last August, and Chelsea's opening fixture of the season against

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Swansea. Mourinho was incensed when Dr Carneiro ran onto the pitch to

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treat an injured player, leaving his team a man down as they were chasing

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a winning goal. She claims he called her a derogatory term in Portuguese,

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something which Mourinho and Chelsea denied. After the game comedy called

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his medical team impulse of, naive and said they didn't understand

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football. Within weeks she had resigned and started her employment

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and discrimination action. Today the club apologise and reserve and

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leave. In a statement, Chelsea said, we wish to place on record that in

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running onto the pitch Dr Carneiro was following but the rules of the

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game and fulfilling her responsibility to the players as a

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doctor, putting their safety first. Jose Mourinho also thanks Dr

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Carneiro for the excellent and dedicated support she provided as

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first team doctor. Chelsea offered Dr Carneiro ?1.2 million to settle

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this claim, but it was rejected. On the opening day of this hearing,

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there was astonishing detail laid out before the tribunal about the

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nature of the claims against Chelsea and Jose Mourinho. They have now

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reached an agreement, but it is confidential, and we may perhaps

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never know the terms. She now, however, can look forward to moving

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on in life and putting this long-running saga behind. In a

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statement, she said, it has been an extremely difficult and distressing

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time for me and my family, I now look forward to moving forward with

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my life, my priority has always been the health and safety of the players

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and fulfilling my duty of care as a doctor.

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But the drama wasn't quite yet finished. There were chaotic scenes

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as first Dr Carneiro left the tribunal after the formalities had

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been concluded, and then Jose Mourinho was, eventually, bundled

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into his waiting car. He is now free to carry on as the new manager of

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Manchester United, knowing that the confidential agreement means that

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further embarrassment from this dispute has been avoided. Richard

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Conway, BBC News, south London. The Archbishop of Canterbury,

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Justin Welby, has intervened in the EU referendum campaign with

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a strong attack on Nigel Farage. He has accused the Ukip leader

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of legitimising racism, when he suggested staying in the EU

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might lead to sex attacks like those in Germany during

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the New Year celebrations. Mr Farage has denied

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saying anything racist. Tonight he will take part in a

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television discussion, also involving David Cameron.

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Here's our political editor, Laura Kuenssberg.

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There's a long way to go, but we're in with a shout.

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So shy of self-promotion - Nigel Farage advertising

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his own appearance on TV tonight, prepping for a fight

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he's spent his whole career waiting for.

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I'm ready for this, I've been campaigning for

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a quarter of a century for Britain to leave the European Union,

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and I will do tonight what I've always done.

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and I will invite the Prime Minister to do the same.

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Battling accusations too that he will use race to win.

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At least I tell the truth, and at least I'm prepared

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to stand up for the interests of this country.

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If they start getting personal, if they start getting nasty,

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and I saw a specimen of this back in 2014,

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after that happened, we went on to win

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And the fact that they're stooping to these depths

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But he grabbed attention with his earlier suggestion that

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women could be at risk from sex attacks from migrants in the EU.

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The Archbishop of Canterbury the latest to object.

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An inexcusable, pandering to people's worries and prejudices.

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It's giving legitimisation to racism.

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It is accentuating fear for political gain,

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A helpful line of attack for David Cameron perhaps,

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as the stage is prepared for the Prime Minister

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But the Prime Minister made his own appearance first,

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pushing warnings from Hitachi, the World Trade Organisation,

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and the American central bank about leaving the EU.

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Listen to the experts, don't stand on the sidelines.

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There are no second chances, no reruns.

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even his Tory friends, who tell you we'd be better off out.

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A Leave campaign resorting to total untruths

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to con people into taking a leap in the dark.

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You sound like you're pleading with voters

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not some of your own Cabinet colleagues.

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Are you worried you're losing? Not at all.

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What I'm worried about, what I'm concerned about

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is that people are being told things that aren't correct.

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The Leave campaign has called again for the Prime Minister to debate

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them and what they repeatedly claim is scaremongering from his side.

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I think it's actually quite disappointing to hear

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so much negative rhetoric coming from the UK Government itself,

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and people from the Remain campaign, because this is a great country

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and a great economy, and what people know

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is that we can do brilliantly if we take back control.

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It's now voters who are taking sides.

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is perhaps now out of the politicians' reach.

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And in the last half-hour, Nigel Farage has delved in again, accusing

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the Archbishop of Canterbury of some kind of confected outrage, but it's

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the Prime Minister will draw fire from Mr Farage denied. Both men will

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appear on stage here at the Olympic Park in east London, not at the same

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time, but they will both take questions from the same audience,

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and it is interesting to think perhaps these are the two

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politicians in the country for whom this matters the most. Mr Farage has

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arguably done more than any politician to bring this referendum

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about in the first place. And for David Cameron, he is fighting not

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just to keep the country I bod for his own legacy and for the

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Conservative Party. Two men whose careers will be largely decided by

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the referendum result, but of course all of our votes will shape the

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country's future too. Thank you, Laura.

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Today is the last chance for people to register to vote

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in the referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union,

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which, of course, takes place on the 23rd June.

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The deadline for those wanting to be included on the electoral roll

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is midnight tonight. Christian Fraser is here.

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The politicians say it is the biggest electoral decision

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And in the past month, there have been huge efforts

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on all sides to get people registered.

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1.3 million people have applied online in just the past three weeks.

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Friday and Monday were some of the biggest days for registration.

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148,000 of them are under the age of 35. Today I have been in south

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London, where people were being signed up to vote.

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Exam day and Lambeth College, a day that could shape the future of the

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students in this hall. Are you registered to vote in the

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referendum? And so could there be vote, in or out, Britain's future

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with the EU will probably impact this generation the most. They have

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been counting down for weeks, yet still so many had either forgotten

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to register or they just don't believe there vote can affect the

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outcome. I feel like often they tell us stuff, if you vote, this will

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happen, but once you vote, it never happens. They don't really relate.

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Maybe you need to get more involved in politics and change it. May be!

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If we vote, I don't think there will be a change. Why not? I don't know.

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Nonetheless, they did sign up, and so did 25 others, in less than an

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hour. Different people face different barriers in getting into

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politics, if you are young and marginalised, you are less likely to

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vote. There has been a huge social media campaign, including this viral

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video featuring goats. This was a huge day for registrations... The

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electro commission says it has led to a surge in applications. That is

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not to say that it is purely young people they are hunting. In Cardiff,

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they were out reminding the older voters that the midnight deadline is

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looming. If you are already on the electoral role, you don't need to do

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anything. The voting cards should be on their way. But remember also

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tomorrow's deadline, 5pm is the cut-off in England, Scotland and

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Wales to apply for a postal vote if you are away on the 23rd of June.

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So you are eligible to vote if you are over 18,

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you are from Britain, Ireland or the Commonwealth.

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This is the web page address you need.

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If you have your NI number to hand, that will help,

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The local authority has to verify everyone on the register.

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And with the deadline approaching, they have more time than you.

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34 teenagers and two adults had to be rescued by helicopter

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and lifeboats, after they became trapped by the rising tide

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beneath the white cliffs near Dover last night.

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The group, from Stamford Hill in north London,

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Ed Thomas is on the stretch of coast where the incident occurred.

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George, 36 very lucky people tonight. It is tempting with this

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warm weather and the blue skies to take a stroll up the cliffs, but

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today we have also heard thunder, rain and lightning. Mix that with

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these rising tides, and that shows you that very quickly this can

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become a dangerous place. 34 teenage boys and two adults

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cling to the White Cliffs of Dover. Some use mobile phones as torches,

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trapped by rising tides after a light night walk along the beach.

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It took three lifeboats, a coastguard helicopter,

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and more than 40 volunteers to save each life.

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Astonishingly, the group had walked straight past warning signs.

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Very lucky to be alive from that area.

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More often than not, unfortunately, the story from that area

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where we've rescued that group tonight is very different

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Just before midnight, cold and wet, they reached dry land.

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The teenagers were on a day trip organised by a Jewish community

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centre, and the children had no idea of the dangers they faced.

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The waters here come in very quickly.

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At this time of year, the spring tide is higher than usual,

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and there is the constant risk of cliff falls.

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the group decided to walk along the beach at night.

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that this could have been so much worse.

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You can't ignore the fact that, had the mobile phones not functioned,

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we would have been looking at a very different scenario.

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The organisers of the trip have said they'll investigate what went wrong

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and are extremely grateful to those who saved their lives.

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admits some of his workers were paid less than the minimum wage.

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England in training ahead of Euro 2016.

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Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News, Northern Ireland manager

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Michael O'Neill plays down Kyle Lafferty's injury

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during training today and says it's not a major concern

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ahead of their Euro 2016 opener against Poland on Sunday.

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Hillary Clinton looks set to become the first ever woman chosen

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to run for US President by a major political party.

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With voting under way in the last major primaries,

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the former First Lady looks likely to gain enough

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delegates needed to secure the Democratic Party nomination.

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But supporters of her rival, Senator Bernie Sanders,

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have said it is too early to call the contest.

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Our North America editor, Jon Sopel, reports from New York.

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In New York, and across the US, Americans woke to the news this

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morning that was long-awaited, but is nonetheless historic.

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For the first time in this nation's history, a woman, Hillary Clinton,

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On the Hoboken ferry to Wall Street commute,

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Faced with a choice of Trump versus Clinton?

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I'd rather throw myself off the boat right now

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I'm just not sure that this is as good as we can do.

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You think you could do better than Hillary Clinton?

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I think we can do better than all of them.

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If I had to choose between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump,

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But that sounds like she is the least worst option?

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Pollsters here measure favourability ratings,

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and both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are right

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off the scale on how unfavourably people view them.

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This could be an election not about who do you like the most,

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but about who do you dislike the least.

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Last night in California, with her fight song playing,

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Hillary Clinton learnt that the glass ceiling she was only

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able to crack eight years ago had finally shattered.

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We are on the brink of an historic, historic, unprecedented moment,

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but we still have work to do, don't we?

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And at her campaign headquarters, which the BBC was given access to,

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First, she has to unite the Democratic party,

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and then work out how to fight Donald Trump.

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You can't be passive in the face of Donald Trump,

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and just assume that people will ultimately come

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to the conclusion that they won't accept him.

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You have to make the case, you have to prosecute the case about why

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We are not going to hesitate on a day-to-day basis.

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You have do, but what we are not going to do, what you are not

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going to see us do is sink down to his depth, and get

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into the gutter and try to hurl insults and taunts.

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In a high-tech campaign, a decidedly low-tech

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Hillary Clinton has seen off Bernie Sanders.

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A man and a five-year-old boy are fighting for their lives

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after being struck by lightning at a school sports

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Our Ireland Correspondent Chris Buckler is in Lisburn for us now.

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Chris, this must have been frightening for everyone there. What

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more do we know? Clearly it is sunny at the moment, but there have been

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periods of bad weather across the UK today, including some torrential

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rain and flash flooding. Here in Northern Ireland there have been

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some lightning storms, and one of those two place as parents were

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picking up their children here in Lisburn. A school Sportsday was

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taking place and one father was walking with his son and his

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daughter just towards the end of a playground behind me. And at the end

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of that, fence version can see, they were struck by lightning. The man is

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critically ill in hospital, as is his five-year-old man, and his

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seven-year-old daughter is also seriously ill. Clearly tonight there

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is a lot of concern about what happened, and unusually the

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Ambulance Service has issued a warning for people to be

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particularly aware, given that more thundery forecasts are forecast.

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Football, and England have been in training today,

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ahead of their opening game at the Euro 2016 tournament.

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It comes as the Foreign Office has warned fans travelling to France

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to be vigilant, because venues could be potential terror targets.

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Our Sports Editor, Dan Roan, is in Chantilly.

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Four days from now, it will be England's players singing the

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national anthem. This morning it was local schoolchildren, the warmest of

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welcomes for a squad ahead of an open training session at their Euro

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2016 base. England's multilingual manager thanking Sean Kelly for its

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hospitality. But its fluency on the pitch that England need. Hodgson has

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picked an attacking squad with an average age of just 25. The defence

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is seen as a weakness. Some players are recovering from injury. But in a

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group that includes Wales, England are the favourites to qualify. I

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don't see why we won't be successful in the competition, because we are

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young. I don't cages are nothing to do with it, I think it is more how

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you play as a team and how you gel as a team. England may have

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qualified with a 100% record, but after a dire World Cup two years ago

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in Brazil, this time they must do better. So here we are yet again.

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For England, the start of another major tournament carries with it so

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many memories of hopes dashed, but with the youngest squad in this

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competition, the hope will be that these players aren't weighed down by

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the burden of past failures, like some of their predecessors. Much

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will depend on a revitalised forward line led by Spurs striker Harry

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Kane. So how far could England go? All the way. All the way. I think we

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have got a great squad. I am excited by this group. I have been here

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before, I went to South Africa thinking we could win it. So it

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would be the first time I have felt like that, but I didn't we have got

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a good squad. England are under 24 armed guard here, but for the half a

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million British supporters expected in France this month, a warning

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today from the Foreign Office, that stadium, fans owns and transport

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pubs are potential targets for terrorist attack. It is a football

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tournament. You can't eliminate every fear from one's life. So I

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would say go with confidence, be smart, but come and enjoy the

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football. Despite the security concerns, England's management are

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making themselves at home here in this genteel corner of France. The

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road been straightforward, history suggests from now on it will be

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anything but. Over the past few weeks,

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we have been hearing from a range of voices across the UK about how

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they plan to vote in the forthcoming referendum

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and what issues matter to them. Tonight, it is the turn

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of Sheila Davies, from My name is Sheila Elizabeth Davies,

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I am 81 years of age. I have worked here for over 40

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years, and I live in Barmouth, I'm not sure yet what my

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vote is going to be. This vote is very much

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for the children that are coming behind us,

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and we must do everything that we can to make this a better

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place to grow up in, and to help each other and put it

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right, so that the next generation that is coming

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will have the best place. I think people must think

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and do the right thing. We are trying to make things

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right for our country. Some dramatic and dangerous weather

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around through the course of today. Also widespread storms across

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Scotland, northern England and the south-east of England as well. We

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captured this image of a lightning strike from our roof camera across

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the London area at about 2pm. Those storms are now heading up the A-1

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and the M1. Pretty miserable travel conditions. Further flooding is

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possible in the next few hours. Storms will continue to rumble on

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through the evening across Northern Ireland, Scotland, northern England,

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slowly fading here but further south storms will keep going across the

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night, into the Midlands, parts of Northern Ireland being affected.

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Those downpours and the warmth and humidity making it quite tricky for

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sleeping, with temperatures in towns and cities staying in the mid-teens.

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More cool and comfortable across the north-east with the cloud returns

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overnight. A grey start here with the breeze backing off the North

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Sea, all eastern areas will be quite a bit fresher tomorrow. For many,

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another dry, bright, warm summer's day, but the warmth and humidity

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will again trigger further thunderstorms. Not as widespread as

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today, and Northern Ireland looks largely dry, but across parts of

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western Scotland, north-west England in particular, the risk of further

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vicious storms, some may be across the Midlands and North Wales. Very

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much it and miss but the potential for some ugly storms again. Like

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today, south Wales, south-west England staying dry, warm and sunny,

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and we should not see too many storms across the South tomorrow,

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23, 24, 25 possible. Eastern areas will be cooler particularly on the

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coast. Those thundery downpours only slowly fade tomorrow evening,

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leading into what should be a dry day on Thursday, still with some

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humid air, but more of a genetic change as we go into Friday to the

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weekend, the weather fronts return, the fresher air returns but it will

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also be cloudier and wetter.

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