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Fighting erupts across Syria, the heaviest bombardment in months as

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the ceasefire crumbles. People scramble to rescue survivors from

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the rubble. Syria's President Assad blames America. I believe that the

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United States are not genuine. The UN says it will attempt to bring in

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aid convoys, despite the renewed fighting. Also tonight...

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The tens of thousands of cancelled operations not included in official

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Agony for families in Egypt, as hundreds of migrants feared dead in

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the Mediterranean. Doctors warn of the risk to children

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of swallowing batteries - this is what they do

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to a slice of ham. Mary quits the Bake off,

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but Paul says he'll stay. And coming up in Sportsday later

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in the hour on BBC News: The latest

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on the County Championship decider it a hatrick of titles

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with victory against Middlesex. Good evening, and welcome

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to the BBC News at Six. Fighting has broken out once more in

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parts of Syria, with increased ferocity after the collapse of the

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temporary truce. Uncompromising President Assad says he believed the

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six-year long war will drag on and it is impossible to say when it

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could end. He also claims his enemies alone,

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which include the US, are to blame for the devastation

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across the country. Our Diplomatic Correspondent

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James Landale has more. Around Aleppo last night there was

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anything but a ceasefire. These unverified pictures show warplanes

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dropping bombs in what is said to be rebel held territory. At least 45

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people were reported to have died. And elsewhere in Syria, including

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the central provinces, there seems little left of what truce there was.

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In an interview with the Associated Press news agency, President Assad

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was defiant. Denying he was besieging eastern Aleppo, and

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denying he was using barrel bombs to kill civilians. A bomb is a bomb,

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what is the difference between different kinds of bombs? All bombs

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to kill. It is about how to use it. When you use it, use it to defend

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the civilians, you kill terrorists in order to defend civilians. You do

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not have the moral incentive, we do not have the interest. The war, he

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said, would drag on, whilst outside powers interfered. And he blamed

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America for the breakdown of latest ceasefire. I believe the United

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States is not genuine regarding the success secession of Syria. As the

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attack on Monday which destroyed a humanitarian convoy and killed 28

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workers, he denied any involvement. Regarding the White House yesterday

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accusing either the Syrian or the Russians in that regard, I would

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say, what I can officially say about the conflicts in Syria, they have no

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credibility, whatever they say, it is just lies. Today, his forces

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gained control of yet more territory. As more than 100 rebel

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fighters and their families were evacuated from opposition health

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districts in Homs. Elsewhere, a United Nations aid convoy did get

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through to rebel holds about the Damascus. But so far, none has been

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allowed into Aleppo, something the UN said to change. Please, President

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Assad, do your bit to enable us to get eastern Aleppo and also the

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other besieged areas. But aid will reach here only if there is a

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ceasefire. And although there will be yet more talks in the UN this

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evening, there are a few hopes that the fighting will end any time soon.

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James Landale, BBC News. Within the last

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And within the last hour the Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson

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has been speaking at the United Nations about

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the Russians have an opportunity to show leadership, to do the right

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thing by the people of Syria, and the right thing by the world. That

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is to accept that there has to be a transition away from President Assad

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and a future for the Syrian people that does not involve an Assad

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tyranny. Our Diplomatic Correspondent James

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Robbins is at the UN James, those comments by Boris

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Johnson were made in an interview with you. What else did he have to

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say? Well, I have just come from talking to Boris Johnson. He said

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that people would have to say that the Kerry- Lavrov process that is

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the current American - Russian negotiation to broker a ceasefire,

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but progress is very much in jeopardy. That is the most downbeat

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I have overheard Foreign Secretary about this. He did go on to say that

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there was no other game in town, that there was no other possible

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diplomatic model for trying to bring an end to the Syrian wall. And so

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they would have to do their best to keep that process going, however

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difficult -- Syria wall. You heard the appeal he made to the Russians.

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He was pretty blood. He warned them that if they didn't accept that

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Assad had to go, and he didn't believe they did accept that, they

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risk getting Russia bogged down in Syria in the same way that the

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soviet Union had before in Afghanistan after the Soviet

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invasion of the 1980s. I have to say, Boris Johnson was not holding

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out any substantial home. He was merely contrasting what he sees as

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the correct behaviour followed by the United States and her allies,

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for instance, admitting to the accidental bomb of Syrian soldiers

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at the weekend, and what he regards as the cynical process taken by

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President Assad and his Russian backers. James Robbins, thank you.

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Tens of thousands of operations were cancelled in England last year

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but not included in official figures, the BBC has discovered.

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Hospitals only have to record operations postponed on the day

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But a BBC investigation has found that 41,500 additional operations

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were called off one to three days before, but not counted.

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It should have been a routine operation, but it turned

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into a nightmare experience for Iona from Cornwall.

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After a wait of several months for a hysterectomy,

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the operation was postponed the day before it was due, and then

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She felt so upset, she went straight to her local radio station

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in her hospital gown to talk about her experience.

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Because you can see, I've still got my name tag on.

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The operation did eventually take place and went smoothly.

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But Iona, who is self-employed, won't forget the stress caused

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by being told of cancellations with very limited notice.

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Every time they give you a date to go in for your operation,

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there is a lot of preparing before you go in for that day.

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So any cancellation that you get is obviously a very traumatic time

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because of everything you have to do, all of the plans that you've

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made, everything you did, your mindset, everything.

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Official figures show 7.7 million operations were carried out

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1% involved last-minute cancellations on the original day

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Patients were guaranteed a new date within 28 days.

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But a BBC investigation with responses from nearly

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half of hospital Trusts uncovered an additional

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They said nearly 41,500 were cancelled 1-3 days before

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These don't show up in any official figures, and there is no 28-day

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Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland use different definitions

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Hospital chiefs in England admit there is a growing problem,

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but that increasing patient numbers are putting pressure on wards

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In a situation where we have got so many people needing planned

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operations, and an increasing level of emergency admissions,

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then we have a situation where we often need to cancel

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And isn't that pretty devastating for the patients involved?

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It's absolutely devastating for the patient involved,

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and we don't underestimate what that means.

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Iona simply feels she was passed around the system with no

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Well, I did feel like I was a piece of meat.

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And they could do basically what they want, really.

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They don't understand the emotions that go with it.

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As a hospital, there should be beds for everybody.

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I've got problems as much as the next person.

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The local hospital said it was working hard

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to reduce short-notice cancellations.

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Iona's view is that it has to be a priority

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An influential survey suggests small businesses are feeling gloomy about

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their prospects. The last time they felt this and confident about the

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future was in the middle of the Eurozone crisis. So go on

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confidence. Small businesses or a crucial engine in our economy. Is it

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because of Brexit? As our business editor reports, there is more to it

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than that. On the surface, small businesses like this cleaning

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company in South Bend should be feeling chirpy. On the whole, they

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were more relaxed about Brexit, and the economic news since June has

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been good. A sharp fall in confidence is a surprise. The owner

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says he is having to turn down new contracts every week. For lack of

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workers to do the job. Brexit has had an effect inasmuch as we don't

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attract as many migrant workers now. They are uneasy, they don't quite

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know where they stand. The other problem we have is that since the

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Living Wage has come in, other companies are paying in line with

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what we pay. Anybody looking for a job has more options, and this is

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affecting the candidates we get applying the cleaning jobs locally.

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Small business confidence has taken a particularly sharp dive in the

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last three months, and it seems likely some of that is to do with

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Brexit uncertainty. For many small businesses, those issues seem quite

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a long way over the horizon. In the foreground there are other issues

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bothering them, things like the National Living Wage, pension auto

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enrolment and the general softening of the UK economy. It is those

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issues in the here and now that small businesses hope the Chancellor

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will do something to help with. New Chancellor Philip Hammond delivers

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his plan for the economy in late November. He can't un-pick his

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predecessor's National Living Wage promise, ?7 20 per hour, but a

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welcome reception back in April. George Osborne plan to raise it to

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?9 by 2020, and that has got small business groups worried. It is an

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aspiration at the moment. If it is the work we have to bear in mind the

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drop in confidence and the domestic headwind. It sounds like the figure

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should be reviewed, in your view? It will need to be looked at closely.

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Although pessimistic, the survey did show more small companies with

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export ambitions. The fall in the value of the pound since Brexit

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should help, according to this not in fertiliser producer. Reduction of

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the value of the pound means that our products become cheaper if we

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are selling in pounds. I am hugely optimistic about trade with the USA,

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the Far East, Africa, and particularly is of America. But

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those small businesses don't export -- most small businesses. For them

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it is issues like wages, taxes and orders that matter, and is making

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many of them worried. Farewell to soggy bottoms -

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the parting words of Mary Berry as she announced she won't go

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with The Great British Bake Off when She says her decision is "out

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of loyalty to the BBC". Her fellow judge Paul Hollywood has

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announced he is going to stay It means Bake Off will lose three

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of its four current hosts I could take more orange than that.

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My problem is, it is very dense. I could almost bring that out with a

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flannel. Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry, the judges on Britain's

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biggest TV show. Their expert eye and devilish challenges have been a

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key part of the Bake Off recipe. But the partnership is over. Mary Berry

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today said, my decision to stay with the BBC

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Paul Hollywood, seen yesterday arriving at Channel 4, is staying

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loyal to the bunting and squirrels in return for a rather larger

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paycheque. It is understood the BBC was so keen to keep him they even

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offered him some appearances and roll on Top Gear and then added to

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the departure of Mel and Sue, there will be a very different Bake Off

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recipe. It will be so hard for them to pull this off with different

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presenters on a different channel. That will be the real test for

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Channel 4, where they are going to really try and make this a success,

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or whether it will be flat as a pancake. So, the BBC loses the Bake

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Off. But it's quite so hang on to the presenters. Channel 4 says at

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once as few changes as possible, but there is only one familiar face

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left. So will it once. A lot of loyal fans are disappointed. This

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battle over baking has become a bit of a mess. These are two public

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service broadcasters. Of course it is up to the production company to

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sell it to another broadcaster if they choose to do so. But I'm

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slightly surprised that Channel 4, another publicly owned broadcaster,

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should essentially poked a very successful show of the BBC by paying

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them more money. Channel 4 said it wouldn't have the show if the

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relationship with the BBC hadn't broken down. There may be a line of

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change, but they feel they have saved the Bake Off for free to air

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television. Fighting erupts across Syria -

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the heaviest bombardment in months Hull announces its plans

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for its year as City of Culture - with plays, opera and the Turner

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Prize. Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News

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in the next 15 minutes: The draw has been made for the first

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round of next year's Davis Cup. After their semi-final

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defeat last weekend, Great Britain have a tricky opening

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tie away in Canada. Doctors are warning

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about the potentially lethal risk posed to young children by button

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batteries - the sort found Surgeons at London's Great Ormond

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Street Hospital say they've seen a rise in the number of children

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suffering severe injuries They can get lodged

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in the oesophagus and quickly burn a hole through its lining,

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and that can prove fatal. Our Medical Correspondent Fergus

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Walsh has more. Ready?

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Yeah. All it took was a tiny watch

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battery to devastate this After she swallowed the button

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battery it burned through her This is the latest of many

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operations at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital

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to try to repair the damage. For the past year the three-year-old

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has been fed through a tube into her stomach and has a bag

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to collect her saliva. Her mother who's Russian says it has

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turned their lives upside down. She hopes Valeria will

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eventually recover. Essentially this battery starts

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working in the oesophagus. Surgeons at Great Ormond Street

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Hospital are seeing one child a month with caustic soda burns

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caused by button batteries. The most important thing is to be

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aware that these are extremely dangerous and should be treated

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essentially like a poison and should be kept out

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of the reach of children. Let's mimic what can happen

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when a button battery gets lodged The ham represents

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the delicate lining of the oesophagus,

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and water, saliva. I'll cover this side but put another

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battery here so we can see We've left this for just two hours,

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and already a huge amount If I lift the button battery you can

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see all this black marked area. Eventually this would have

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burnt its way right through the ham. When she swallowed a button battery

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last year doctors warned her mum there could be

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life changing injuries. They said that her vocal cords

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could be damaged then and there and she would never

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develop a voice. And again, they said that if she did

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pull through she may never eat again because her oesophagus may have

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been too badly damaged. Fortunately the two-year-old has

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made a complete recovery. But it's a warning to parents

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to keep toddlers away Tonight hundreds of people

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are feared dead in one of the worst disasters

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of the Mediterranean migrant crisis. Survivors have told the BBC around

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550 people were crammed on board a boat which set sail

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from the Egyptian coast - and that only 160 could be rescued

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when it capsized yesterday. The disaster happened 12

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miles from the coast, near the town of Rosetta -

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rescuers are still Four crew members have been

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arrested. From there our correspondent

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Orla Guerin reports. Reclaimed from the sea, survivors of

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the latest tragedy in the Mediterranean, saved by the Egyptian

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military and taken into police custody. Some overwhelmed by

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exhaustion after up to eight hours treading water. Staring death in the

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face. Most were young Egyptians from poorer communities who told us they

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wanted to reach Italy to find work. They said more than 550 people were

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crammed onto the boat. It was very small, said this

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17-year-old. It only had a room for 200. We were at sea for two days and

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they kept bringing more people before we capsized and half the crew

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got away. Mohammed survived but without his

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cousin who was just 14. TRANSLATION: May God have mercy on

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all the young men who died. I was going to die but God helped me, God

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and the Army. We were reciting the prayer before that, not once but ten

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or 15 times. We said, God help us, God save us.

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Outside the police station anguish and anger, some relatives

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complaining the authorities took hours to respond to distress signals

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from the sinking boat. But then what they'd all been waiting for.

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The survivors are emerging now. They've spent the night in custody.

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They are being reunited with their families. Many of the relatives have

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been maintaining a vigil here right through the night hoping against

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hope to get news of their loved ones, hoping that they were not

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among the dead. Orla Guerin reporting from Egypt

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where the survivors of the terrible Maicon disaster in the Mediterranean

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are. A brief look at some of the day's

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other other news stories. A former panellist on the BBC quiz

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show Eggheads has appeared in court in connection with an alleged

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killing in Amsterdam in 1988. CJ De Mooi, who's from

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Monmouthshire, was arrested The current delivery of social work

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services in Scotland is "unsustainable" -

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according to a report by the local The Accounts Commission

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says the annual bill has It says an additional ?667 million

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will be needed by 2020 - unless new ways of delivering

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services are found. In Northern Ireland the families

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of over 30 people, who were killed during the Troubles,

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are to take legal action They want it to pay for inquests

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into their relatives' deaths. They've given the Northern Ireland

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Office and the Stormont Executive The Duke of Cambridge has warned

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that the African elephant could be extinct by the end of the decade. He

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wants to draw attention to the threat of the illegal trade in

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wildlife. Nicholas Witchell reports. They've been part of the African

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landscape for as long as man can remember but the future of the

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African elephant is in danger. They are being hunted without mercy for

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their tusks, tasks made of ivory, ivory which is one of the most

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precious commodities in the illegal wildlife trade. Ivory which is

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shipped to countries like China where it is carved into works of

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art. It's an illegal trade which William is determined to stop. He

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raised it in Washington with President Obama and in Beijing with

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President Xi Jinping. And now as Britain plans tighter laws about the

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sale of antique Ivory William Harris Boka and out in London with a call

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to the international community to do more. When I was born there were 1

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million elephants roaming Africa. By the time my daughter Charlotte was

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born last year the numbers of savanna elephants had crashed to

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just 350,000. And at current pace of illegal poaching when Charlotte

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turns 25 African elephant will be gone from the wild. Williams said he

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was not prepared to be part of a generation which did nothing. Now is

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the chance to send and an ambiguous message to the world that it is no

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longer acceptable to buy and sell ivory, rhino horn or other illegal

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ivory products. I would challenge anyone who knows the truth of how

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these wildlife products are obtained to justify desiring them.

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Materialistic greed cannot be allowed to win against our moral

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duty to protect threatened species and vulnerable communities. In a

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couple of days an international conference will consider what can be

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done and all the time in Africa the poachers continue the brutal work

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which threatens to destroy the continent's remaining population of

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elephants. Nicholas Witchell, BBC News.

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There are just a hundred days to go until Hull becomes the UK city

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Among the highlights announced today are Opera North performing

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from the Humber Bridge, and the city hosting

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Our Arts Editor Will Gompertz, has been taking a look.

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This is Hull, frantically getting ready to welcome the world

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in a little over three months' time when it takes on the mantle of UK

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City of Culture and hosts a 12 month arty party.

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Ferens Art Gallery, jewel in the crown of the city.

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The man behind the festivities tells me the

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gallery is having a ?4.5 million face-lift in preparation for hosting

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next year's Turner Prize, which is one highlight in a programme

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that includes citywide light shows, Opera on the Humber Bridge and

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The overall aim, he says, is to tell Hull's story.

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It's investing hugely in green energy.

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It is a port to northern Europe, it is

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So I think what we try to find is that balance

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between celebrating the historic nature of this city as a great

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place, which once had great wealth, its ups and downs socially and

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economically, but also pushing it into the future as a vibrant place.

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Last year I took a tour of the city with Hull-based theatre director

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And then behind it is going to be an amphitheatre.

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An amphitheatre? Yeah.

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It was amazing to see so many people coming down and

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area of the city known as the Fruit Market.

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You can see that it's sort of halfway through its

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To become this cultural and kind of creative

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It doesn't look like much at the moment but this,

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all being well come January, is going to be Hull's

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Truth be told, Madeleine, are the local people

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slightly fed up with all the disruption?

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Well, of course they are

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because the entire city has been, like, barriers across it and trying

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to navigate those barriers can be a bit frustrating.

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But I think everybody is starting to see those

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changes, they are starting to get on board with how brilliant it is

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People's interpretation of the city by physically coming

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here, looking around it, talking to people.

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It's nice to see so much regeneration in the city and I'm

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looking forward to seeing who comes in to do work

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throughout the City of

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I think it's going to be really exciting.

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I think people look down at Hull and they shouldn't.

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There's lots of excellent stuff going on in Hull.

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?130 million plus is being spent on the city's cultural

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The hope is that the 2017 arts festival will

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It is a party to which we are all invited.

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how many of us will want to go.

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Time to look at the weather and in a marvellous piece of joined up

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thinking Alex Deakin is from Hull. It looks fantastic, one of the

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sunniest cities in northern England. Not that I am biased. In Beverley of

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the road, one of our weather watchers sent this picture in. We do

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have a little bit of a chilly night ahead and wet night this evening, a

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band of showery rain edging across Scotland into parts of north-west

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England, North and west Wales but it fizzles out. For many it is a dry

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and clear night and it will be chilly, cool the man last night,

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across the south and east, temperatures in rural areas into

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single figures. You will notice a different feel about tomorrow

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morning. -- cooler than last night. It should be a fine day with plenty

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of autumn sunshine on offer and one or two showers in South Wales early

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on. We will know to change in the north-west later as we seek out

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picking up and outbreaks of rain spreading. For most places much of

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the day dry and bright and we could again get up to 20 degrees in the

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south-east of England. Light winds and sunny spells across south-west

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England and Wales, one or two early showers here but much of Wales,

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northern England set fair again along with eastern Scotland. But

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here is a change, a weather system approaching and the wind is picking

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up and the rain sets in and when it has set in it will last into the

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weekend, the north-west of Scotland, we have to keep an eye on it, and

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the rain will push into Northern Ireland, the wind picking up, a

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windy Saturday in the north and west, the rain edging into parts of

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north-west England and Wales, but drawing up warm air and over 20s in

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the south-east. They could be rain across the south-east and East

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Anglia early on Sunday but then we are left with a fresher feel.

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