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Donald Trump is forced to back down after a row

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GCHQ says President Trump's claim that it tapped his phone

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The governance and oversight of the organisation just does not

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So I think in this case it is absolutely clear, this

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President Trump's spokesman has promised not to repeat the claim,

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George Osborne is appointed editor of a daily London newspaper,

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Nicola Sturgeon hints that she might be prepared to look at a later date

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How schools in England could be facing big funding cuts.

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Tory MPs urge the Government to have a rethink.

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his first official visit there since the death of Diana.

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Robbie Power hails the "genius" of trainer Jessica Harrington,

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as he rides Sizing John to victory in the Cheltenham Gold Cup.

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Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

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The US government has backed down over claims that British

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intelligence bugged Donald Trump during the presidential campaign.

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His press spokesman claimed Britain's GCHQ had tapped his phone.

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When GCHQ responded that it was nonsense

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and utterly ridiculous, the White House assured Number Ten

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that the allegations wouldn't be repeated,

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Only yesterday an investigation by the US Senate concluded

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there was no evidence that President Trump was bugged by US

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Britain's GCHQ surveillance agency - secretly listening in,

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said the White House, on President-Elect Donald

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Not true, says GCHQ, in a rare public rebuttal.

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It all began with a tweet, with Donald Trump alleging on social

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media Barack Obama had ordered the tapping of his phone calls

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Then came the claim, from Fox News, that GCHQ may have been behind it.

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Sources have told Fox News that President Obama

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could very easily have, and probably did, use a foreign

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intelligence service to gather this information for him.

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The probable culprit here is called GCHQ.

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The next thing, that unsubstantiated claim was being quoted

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That triggered alarm bells in Whitehall.

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I'm told it was serious enough to be considered a threat

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It prompted this unprecedented denial by GCHQ.

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Recent allegations, it said, made by media commentator

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Judge Andrew Napolitano about GCHQ being asked to conduct

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wiretapping against the then President-Elect are nonsense.

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They are utterly ridiculous and should be ignored.

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This is just not something GCHQ does.

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The legislation under which it operates doesn't allow it to happen.

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The governance and the oversight of the organisation just does not

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I think, in this case, it is absolutely clear this

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If Donald Trump was embarrassed, he wasn't showing it today -

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seen here meeting the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel.

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His administration has promised not to repeat these allegations,

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So, what is the damage to relations with Washington?

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MI6, MI5 and GCHQ, Britain's three spy agencies, all have incredibly

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close working relationships with their US counterparts.

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Whitehall officials insisted today that partnership

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remains as strong as ever, despite the controversy

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Still, it is a bad day for Western intelligence,

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when Britain has to publicly contradict a statement coming out

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of the highest office of its closest partner,

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Frank Gardner, BBC News, outside MI6 headquarters in central London.

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And our North America Editor, Jon Sopel, is outside the White House.

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Is this climb-down embarrassing for President Trump or is it likely

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to make no difference as far as his supporters are concerned?

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As you say, we have not heard the words "I'm sorry" from President

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Trump and I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for that happen. It

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is hard to overstate the consternation on the British side

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about what was said. Sean Spicer says that he did not say GCHQ tapped

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the phones, he said it was reported by Fox News that it had happened.

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That does not wash with the British and I understand the ambassador has

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spoken to Sean Spicer about it. Equally, the national Security

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adviser has spoken to his dish counterpart. While there has been no

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formal public apology thing regrets have been expressed and undertakings

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given that this will not be repeated. I spoke to someone who has

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a close dealings with the administration who said the normal

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law of a political hole is that when you are in one, you stop digging.

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This Administration brings in a mechanical excavator. Thank you.

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In a move that's astonished his fellow MPs and outraged some,

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the former Chancellor, George Osborne, has been appointed

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editor of the London Evening Standard daily newspaper.

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Mr Osborne says he'll combine the role with his

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job as MP for Tatton, as well as at least one other job

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A number of MPs have responded with disbelief that one man can

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Here's our Media Editor, Amol Rajan, who broke the story.

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George Osborne rose to Shadow Chancellor at the age of just 33,

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but six years after taking charge of rebuilding Britain's economy after

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the financial crash, he was sacked by Theresa May after the Brexit

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referendum. But today he made a career change, at least half of one.

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In a shock announcement, he has been appointed editor of the London

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Evening Standard, a job he will do while continuing to be an MP. I am

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thrilled and excited to be the editor of the Evening Standard.

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There are big issues in our world and what people want are

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authoritative facts, good analysis, great journalism. It's an important

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time for good journalism and the Evening Standard is gay to provide

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it. George Osborne will take the editor's chair in this building,

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arriving at 5am and leaving at around midday. I spent years here as

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editor of the Independent and there are managerial and commercial

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responsibilities, too. Some managers are known to work up to 100 hours

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per week, so the question the people are asking is how do you reconcile

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being an editor with being an MP? In his constituency in Cheshire, this

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is how some voters reacted. Thrilled for George, remaining in the public

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spotlight. One just hopes he will continue his constituency duties. To

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me, it should either be that one or that one. Make one of them your job.

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I thought he was an amazing Chancellor. He will be paid

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substantially less than his predecessor but perhaps he does not

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need the money. He already earns nearly ?75,000 as an MP and took

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home over three quarters of ?1 million in the past year for

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speeches. And he makes ?650,000 a year for four days work a month at

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asset manager Blackrock. I thought it was fake news at first. Why is he

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doing it? Not for the money. I can only conclude that he wants to build

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the Standard into an alternative power base to Theresa May, and in

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the event of Brexit going pear shaped, he will use this to launch

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his attack. Some have said there is a conflict of interest. Others have

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questioned George Osborne's commitment to Parliament. He is very

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clever and able but this is ridiculous. How can you edit the

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Evening Standard, which is for London, represent a Cheshire

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constituency, and be a direct of a bank all at the same time? He may be

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no stranger to headlines, but George Osborne has limited journalistic

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experience and credentials. This appointment will intrigue

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Westminster and readers of the Standard. The likelihood is that he

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will be a newspaper editor long after he is MP for Tatton.

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We can talk to our political correspondent

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Many will be thinking how on earth can George Osborne manage to be

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a newspaper editor and an MP, both full time jobs for most people.

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Yes, it is going to be a very difficult juggle four George Osborne

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but he claims he can edit the newspaper in the morning and carry

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out his duties in parliament in the afternoon. That was met with mockery

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by a number of MPs today, who say that is not doable. Two opposition

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MPs have said he should stand down. Jeremy Corbyn said the appointment

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is an insult to Mr Osborne's Tatton constituency. It is a constituency

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that is being abolished, the boundaries redrawn at the next

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election, which must feed into his decision. The last time that a

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sitting MP was the editor of a daily newspaper was actually 100 years

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ago, so there is a distant precedent for this. Some might feel that this

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is a classic example of a well greased revolving door working very

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well for people with the right connections. It is an extraordinary

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appointment but politically significant, too. George Osborne has

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been clear that he does not think the Government are prioritising the

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economy enough as they approach Brexit negotiations. Now, back in

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the front line of politics, he has a powerful platform to make his case,

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reflect the views of London readers, who voted strongly for Remain in the

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referendum, and hold Theresa May's government to account.

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Nicola Sturgeon has hinted she may be prepared to delay the timing

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of a second referendum on Scottish independence.

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Scotland's First Minister says she is up for continued discussion

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about the matter with Theresa May, as long as the Prime Minister

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But Mrs May repeated again today that a referendum would be bad

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Here's our Scotland Editor, Sarah Smith.

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Cheering and clapping. The SNP do not look like a party whose

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referendum hopes have been dashed. Let there be no doubt, Scotland will

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have its referendum and the people of this country will have their

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choice. They will not be denied their say. Fighting talk, readying

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the troops for battle. They are eager to engage, but how can the SNP

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promised a referendum when the Prime Minister has said no? How can you

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say you definitely will have a Scottish referendum when the Prime

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Minister says she is not prepared to discuss it? There comes a point

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where just because a Prime Minister, who is a Prime Minister with just

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one MP in Scotland, just because she says she wants to stand in the way

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of the Scottish parliament, it does not mean we should accept that is

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right. There is nothing you can do about it. We have seen this week

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that when the Prime Minister realises she is in an unsustainable

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position, she is quick to engineer a U-turn. Her position is not

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sustainable. It appears things have got acrimonious this week, with you

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tweeting about the Prime Minister not being elected yet. Would you say

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relations are at an all-time low? Clearly we have a disagreement. I am

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saying today is, let's try and work through that disagreement. The Prime

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Minister has not put herself in opposition to me or to independence.

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She is within her rights to argue against independence. She seems to

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be putting herself in opposition to the democratic will of the Scottish

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Parliament. I don't think that sustainable. Nicola Sturgeon is

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telling delegates she thinks she can force Theresa May to change her

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mind. She told me she might be able to compromise on the date of a

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referendum, but the Prime Minister ruled out even talking about one per

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at least two years, and you can't negotiate with someone who will not

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speak to you. Theresa May, in Cardiff today, certainly does not

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sound as though she is about to back down. It is now clear that using

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Brexit as a pretext to engineer a second independence referendum has

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been the SNP's sole objective ever since last June. But it would be bad

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for Scotland, bad for the United Kingdom and bad for us all. In

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Scotland, there are plenty of people who do not want another referendum.

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Unionists, protesting outside the SNP conference, hope the UK

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Government will not give in. Inside, activists believe they will get to

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vote again for an independent Scotland, even though it is not a

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fight they are guaranteed to win. A mother who hid the body

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of her dead baby son in a garden shed for more than a decade has been

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sentenced to 21 months in prison. Victoria Gayle admitted preventing

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the decent burial of her son. How he died has not

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been established. Now the police are trying to find

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out whether she had any more children in a six-year period

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from 2007, and have asked anyone For more than a decade,

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Victoria Gayle carried Her baby son, Kyzer, died,

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and she hid his body. 11 years on, the body was discovered

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hidden in a box in a garden shed They said they didn't

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know what had happened. Victoria Gayle told police

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she found her son dead. Victoria has always denied any

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involvement in Kyzer's death, and the postmortem determined

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that it was inconclusive, and that's due to the passage

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of time, over ten years. After he left Northwick Park

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Hospital as a newborn it appears the authorities had minimum contact

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with Kyzer Gayle, and then A decade later Victoria Gayle's

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two-year-old daughter An inquest found that she had

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swallowed a tiny battery, and it was then the police began

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investigating what had Victoria Gayle said that

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in a bedroom crammed with junk she kept Kyzer's body for years

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before moving it to the shed. On his birth certificate,

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she didn't name Kyzer's father, but down the years she claimed

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she had handed him She implied that she doesn't have

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no contact with Kyzer and that was the best way

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it was because that was So it was, if the dad wanted

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Kyzer she wasn't allowed The local council, Barnet in north

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London, said in a statement: The police watchdog,

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the IPCC, is also examining whether This is a deeply disturbing,

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deeply troubling case that raises a number of questions that

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are going to need to be answered by the serious case review

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and by the IPCC investigation. The Met Police are now looking

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for people who knew Victoria Gayle They are trying to discover

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whether she had any more The White House has backed down

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after claiming British intelligence tapped Donald Trump's phone.

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And still to come, a first time winner comfortably beats

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the favourite at the Cheltenham Gold Cup.

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Coming up on Inside Six Nations, I'm in Dublin for the final weekend

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of rugby's Six Nations Championship as England take on Ireland,

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Concern is growing about the impact of government funding on schools

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in England with teachers and now even some Conservative

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The Education Policy Institute is warning that secondary schools

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could see their funding drop by nearly ?300,000

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But the Government, which is changing the way it funds

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schools, insists it's spending more than ever - some ?40 billion.

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Our education editor Branwen Jefferys has spent the day

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In 20 years as an inner-city head, Ian Fenn has seen it all. What are

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you doing? Don't do that. Shootings, stabbings, drugs, deprivation and

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disability. Almost half his pupils have learning difficulties. He says

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he needs every penny. But funding is not keeping up with the needs of his

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school. Three quarters of the children coming into the school

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can't read properly. They will be two, three, four years behind where

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they should be. On top of that, a similar number have English as an

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additional language. We have a large number of children with special

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educational needs, they could have speaking and language problems, the

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list is endless. It's not just teachers, but extra teaching

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assistants. The school employs social workers as well. Financial

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pressures mean jobs are at risk. A new funding formula will share out

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of money differently. It will give some areas a bigger slice, while

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others get a smaller share. London loses most. School budgets are

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already under pressure, despite a record ?40 billion pot. Pensions,

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national insurance and pay are rising. So our pupil numbers. It

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could add up to 86% to 11% real terms cut per pupil. How am I going

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to care for the most vulnerable in society if they take the money away?

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I don't have enough now. I have kids who are under resourced at the

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moment, and yet they are going to give me substantially less. Tonight,

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another warning from a senior Tory, adding to the pressure on ministers.

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The mainly conservative counties have elections in May and some hope

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for a better deal from the formula. One secondary school will be getting

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?2 million less than another secondary school of a similar size.

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Accepting that one is in an area of high deprivation and one is in more

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of a leafy lane location, that 2 million differential between one

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secondary school with the same pupil numbers, the need might be slightly

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different in one, cannot amount to ?2 million. Could the funding

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formula become the next U-turn for the Government? There was a lot of

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pressure from Tory grass roots and backbenchers. But they are the ones

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that also really want a new deal for their areas. There is another

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problem. If you give more money to the counties and shires, it means

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taking even more from inner-city schools like this. Schools in

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England have had 20 years of funding increases. But as cost pressures

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rise, no one feels like a winner. Branwen Jeffreys, BBC News,

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Manchester. It's one of the biggest events

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in the racing calendar - After 22 gruelling fences it ended

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in a thrilling finish. So, let's join our

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sports correspondent It was, Fiona. Yes, the thousands of

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Irish fans were hoping for an Irish winner to celebrate on St Patrick's

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Day, and they got their wish. Plenty of drama along the way, but the Gold

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Cup went to Sizing John. It's where riders and

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horses become legends. Djakadam set off the bookies'

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favourite, but other At the back, Lizzie Kelly,

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only the second woman to ride in the race,

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was unseated, to her obvious frustration, while the popular

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Cue Card fell three from home. Horses and jockeys,

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thankfully unhurt. As they came over the last,

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it was Sizing John that led the way, ridden by the suitably

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named Robbie Power. Minella Rocco and Native River

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chased him home, but no Ten years ago, Power won

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the Grand National on Silver Birch, I was 25 when I won

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the Grand National, 35 now. When I was announced,

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to go up onto the podium as a Gold Cup winning jockey,

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that sounds very, very sweet. Victory too for trainer

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Jessica Harrington, with her first Not a bad way to start,

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on a day when Power took the glory. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge

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have arrived in Paris It's the first time Prince William

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has been seen publicly since facing some criticism for missing

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a Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey

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to go on a skiing trip. Our royal correspondent

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Nicholas Witchell reports. The British Government is focusing

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the foreign travel of the Royals No mystery why that should be,

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who better to warm up relations So, this visit, the first

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official trip to France by the Duke and Duchess,

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matters more than many. Unfortunate then, it may be thought,

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for William to have deflected attention from a serious purpose

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by his antics of a week ago. He went off on a lad's

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weekend to an exclusive He was caught by a camera giving,

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shall we say, an exuberant display As a result, he missed

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a church service in London, attended by his grandmother,

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and he has reopened the debate, seized on with vigour

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by some tabloid editors, that his commitment to royal duty

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is rather less than it might be. And so this evening,

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first at the Elysee Palace with President Hollande,

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and then at the British embassy, this was a William focused on doing

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what Royals do on visits like this. He listened carefully,

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and engaged fully, supported, In a speech a few moments ago,

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William spoke of the deep friendship between Britain and France and said

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the partnership would continue, despite Britain's

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decision to leave the EU. In the words of the British

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ambassador here, there is a deep affection in France

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for the British Royal family. What we are seeing here is part

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of the wider effort to remind Europe of the breadth and depth

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of the United Kingdom's That theme of enduring

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and continuing friendship will continue this evening

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at a dinner. But there will be no dancing,

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an official confirmed. The Nobel prize-winning poet

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and playwright Derek Walcott has Derek Walcott gained international

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acclaim in the 1960s, with poems that explored the history

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and culture of the Caribbean. He is perhaps best known for his

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epic poem Omeros, which draws 50 years ago this weekend a super

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tanker ran aground off the coast of Cornwall,

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causing one of the world's The Torrey Canyon hit rocks

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between Land's End and the Isles of Scilly and began spilling over

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100,000 tonnes of oil. Miles of coastline in Cornwall

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and Devon were polluted and the huge oil-slick spread south

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to the Channel Islands before reaching the coastline

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of Brittany in France. Environmentalists claim oil

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from the ship is still polluting It was out there, half a century

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ago, that the sea turned black. ARCHIVE: A tragedy such as Britain

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has never experienced before. The Torrey Canyon had run

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aground, spilling its cargo That's me in the background,

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you can see me looking on, Captain Eric Kemp

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helped with the rescue. He remembers how desperate

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he felt as the giant slick Absolute dread and disaster,

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because you knew that we weren't going to be able to cope with that

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amount of oil. You could smell it 30 miles

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away and you could see the line in the water,

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slowly spreading, as it was As the days passed,

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there was a growing sense of chaos. The ship was bombed

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to try to sink it. ARCHIVE: Almost resembling

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an atomic mushroom. Thousands of birds were killed

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from Cornwall to the Channel Islands and, 50 years on, some claim the oil

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is still causing harm. Each winter, during rough times

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of weather like we've got currently, we will see oil churned up

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from the sea bed that could well be from the Torrey Canyon,

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affecting local wildlife. In Cornwall, chemicals used

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to get rid of the oil only This is one of the rocks

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I've been monitoring. Biologist Richard Pearce saw this

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beach stripped of life and he's kept Although it's now thriving, he says

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we must learn from what happened. I think the mistakes

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are fairly obvious. I hope those who have the power

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to do something about it Well, the shipping industry says

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vessels and cargo are much safer now and the authorities say

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we are far better prepared. 50 years on, much of that is

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the legacy of the Torrey Canyon. How is it looking for the weekend? A

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mixed bag. This is the view from one of the weather watchers. Grey skies,

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you can see the rain on the window. More rain on the forecast for the

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weekend, but most on the western side of the UK. Drier on the east,

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but for all of us it will be a windy weekend. Here is the radar, heavy

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rain developing in the South of Scotland, north-west England, parts

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of Wales. Plenty more to come through the rest of this evening. It

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is windy, as well. Even some snow to be had across the high ground of

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Scotland. Notice East Anglia and the south-east of England staying

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largely dry. With the cloud and wind, not cold overnight, not as

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cold as last night. Eight or 9 degrees is typical. In northern

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Scotland, a touch of frost in places, particularly the Northern

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Isles. A windy start to the weekend, fairly cloudy. Some breaks to the

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east of the Pennines and East of Scotland. Further west, cloud and

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outbreaks of rain. Some of it might get across the eastern side. The

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north-east of Scotland hanging on to the best of the weather. Relatively

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mild further south, 16 in the south-eastern corner. A big day for

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the Six Nations. At all three venues we will see a fair bit of cloud.

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Quite breezy as well. The rain should hold off from most places for

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much of the time. The second part of the weekend, similar to the first.

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Breezy, cloudy. Some breaks east of higher ground. Question marks about

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the northernmost extent of rain, it could be further south. East Anglia

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and the south-east are staying largely dry. The early part of next

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week, it looks like a change of wind direction to north-westerly will

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bring some cooler, showery weather across our shores. Have a great

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weekend. That's it from me. That's all from the BBC News at Six,

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so it's goodbye from me and on BBC One we now join the BBC's

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news teams where you are.

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