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The Government says no cuts to foreign aid,

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but stops short of promising to keep pensions rising as they do now.

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As Theresa May campaigned in Berkshire, her Chancellor

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suggested a possible softening of the Government's

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All Chancellors would prefer to have more flexibility in how

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they manage the economy, and how they manage the overall tax

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burden down, than to have their hands constrained.

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On day three of campaigning, we'll bring you all the latest.

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The Paris gunman - he had been jailed for firing

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How the NHS trust under investigation for the deaths

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of babies was warned it needed to improve ten years ago.

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A warning about teenage boys and their computers,

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as the police reveal the average cyber hacker is just 17.

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And the day Hull turned blue in the buff.

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A new exhibition for this year's city of culture.

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It's a big cup weekend in England and Scotland.

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We'll look ahead to all four semi-finals,

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starting with Chelsea's bid for the double.

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Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

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On day three of the campaign trail the Prime Minister

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and the Chancellor have given their first hints

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of what will and what won't be in the Conservative manifesto.

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Theresa May says she'll keep the current spending on foreign aid,

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despite pressure from within her own party to cut it.

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But she would not commit to keep the so-called

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triple lock on pensions, which guarantees they rise

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by inflation, average earnings or 2.5% each year,

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And the Chancellor, Philip Hammond, has hinted that he would like to end

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the party's promise not to increase taxes.

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Our first report tonight is from our deputy political

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Trust me, I'm a politician. No leader stays popular forever but

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Theresa May clearly feels that she is well liked enough for now to make

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promises that some might like but others Wilmot. She looks confident,

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and the message is one we have heard before and will again. What drives

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me, the passion that I have in politics, is to make the United

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Kingdom a country that works for everyone, not just the privileged

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few. That meant sticking to Britain's target spending on foreign

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aid, which some right-wingers want cut. We need to look at how it is

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spent and make sure we are able to spend the money in the most

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effective way. What about the other costly pledge, keeping up the value

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of pensions? Today, you are telling the country you are a leader people

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can trust. Can pensioners trust you to go on raising their state

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pensions and year by year, just as your party and your government does

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now? What I would say to pensioners is, look what the Conservatives in

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government have done. Pensioners today are ?1250 a year better off as

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a result of action that has been taken. We were clear about the need

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to make sure we support people in old age and that is what we have

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done. That was not a yes, but here in Berkshire, and a lot of places,

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plenty of people like the idea of looking after pensioners. They have

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worked and paid National Insurance and taxes, so I think they deserve

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it as much as anyone else. If you can't look after the elderly, what

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can you do. If it can be done, stop it for them, they don't need it.

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Many of them put it straight in the bank. Theresa May may be about to

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upset an awful lot of voters. Even thinking about dropping the Tory

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promise to pensioners takes a leader very confident about this election,

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especially now she is protecting overseas spending at the same time.

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A big lead in the polls comes in handy if you are about to annoy

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pensioners. A big majority in the Commons, even more so. That deserves

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a hug, Jeremy Corbyn campaigning his way, to small crowds and big ones.

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No talk of saving on benefits here. The Corbyn way sounds like this.

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Theresa May seems incapable of answering any question about the

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protection of the triple lock on the state pension. Well, I give you that

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commitment now. Labour will maintain the triple lock. Standing by the

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triple lock, pensions up every year by inflation or average earnings, or

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2.5%. Sorry, I am not quite sure where I am going. Nor does anyone

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know for sure. The campaign has barely started. The Lib Dems look

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perky, sure that this election will be better than last time. We are the

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only clear opposition to the Conservatives, opposing a hard

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Brexit, exit from the single market, and being an effective opposition on

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every level. And on they go. Pollsters and pundits might think

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they know how this ends but there are 48 days until polling day.

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The Chancellor, Philip Hammond, has said he would prefer the Government

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Speaking to the BBC, he hinted that he would

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like the Conservative's 2015 manifesto promise not

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to raise income tax, VAT or national insurance

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He was talking to our economics editor Kamal Ahmed in Washington.

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It was the solemn pledge tweeted to the voter by David Cameron

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no increases in tax, VAT or national insurance.

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Will it be repeated before this election?

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Today the Chancellor, visiting Washington for a meeting

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of leading industrialised nations, hinted maybe not.

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I came into politics not to see taxes rising but to see

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the burden of taxation falling as our economy grows,

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and that remains my very clear political ambition.

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But you do not support specific tax pledges not to raise income tax,

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national insurance and VAT, because it would tie your hands?

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All Chancellors would prefer to have more flexibility in how they manage

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the economy and how they manage the overall tax burden down

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than to have their hands constrained.

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The problem with pledges - they tend to come unstuck.

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Here is the Chancellor on Budget day, announcing an increase

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to national insurance payments for the self-employed.

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There then followed a screeching U-turn after critics pointed out

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Mr Hammond had broken that 2015 pledge.

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The Chancellor is here in Washington

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but, frankly, his mind is on matters rather more domestic.

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In his interview with me, I think he went as far

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as he feels able to, given that the manifesto

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He is no fan of constraining promises, particularly on tax.

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He used one word over and over again - "flexibility".

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Mr Hammond has opened up a flank, and Labour attacked.

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I think he's recognising that he's got problems with the economy,

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he's got problems in the budgeting that he's done, and as a result

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of that there will be tax rises under a Conservative government

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As always, the big test in any election - the economy -

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and today's poor retail sales figures suggested that the increase

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in inflation is starting to bite and consumers

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Some might say you've called this election to get a mandate

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We've called the election because it will strengthen the Prime Minister's

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hand in the negotiations to get the right Brexit deal for Britain.

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it has been remarkably resilient over the last nine months.

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Just this week, the IMF revised up

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its forecast for Britain's economy this year to 2%.

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The cancer will return from his US trip at the weekend,

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where the promises the parties make two voters will be key.

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As far as Mr Hammond is concerned,

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the fewer, it would seem, the better.

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Let's speak to our deputy political editor, John Pienaar,

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Commitments in some areas by Theresa May and also

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How risky is this for the Prime Minister?

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Well, she is certainly risking upsetting a lot of the people who

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are most likely to turn out and vote on polling day, British pensioners.

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You could call it confidence, or economic necessity, if that promise

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is not in the Conservative manifesto. The truth is it would

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probably be quite a lot of both. On overseas aid, she is confident

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enough to take on some in her party and in Fleet Street who believe that

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more aid money should be spent closer to home. As for Jeremy

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Corbyn, his conviction is about public spending and protecting

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services and benefits. They are deep and they are sincere and they will

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be supported by many of his core supporters, loyal supporters. His

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trouble is that Theresa May has a lead on leadership and trust, and

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this election is so much about that. We have never had an election like

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this, except maybe for all the others.

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The French authorities have revealed that the man who shot and killed

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a police officer in Paris last night had attacked the police previously.

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Karim Cheurfi, who was 39, had been jailed in 2001 for firing

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But tonight the French authorities say he'd

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This latest attack comes as France prepares to go to the polls this

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weekend in the country's Presidential elections,

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and the issue of security has been seized on by the candidates,

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as Lucy Williamson reports from Paris.

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In this election, not everyone fighting for

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Last night, a lone attacker with an automatic weapon brought chaos

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His target - French police, patrolling a country on the cusp

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of an election after two years on high alert.

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This mobile phone footage shows the moment he killed a policeman

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and injured two others, before being shot dead

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The policeman he killed was identified today

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as Xavier Jugele, dead for doing his duty,

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The group calling itself Islamic State has claimed responsibility.

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The gunman named as 39-year-old Frenchman Karim Cheurfi.

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He had already served years in prison for attacking the police.

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Officers today searched his family house east of Paris.

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Three of those living there are now being questioned.

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Neighbours told us they didn't see the family very often.

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One man said he read about the attack in this morning's

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paper and discovered that Karim Cheurfi had been

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Today, another house, another neighbourhood rebranded

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as part of the story of France's terrorist attacks.

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With thousands of people from ordinary areas listed

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as potential threats, the Security Services here

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This election was always seen as a target for terrorism.

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50,000 security forces have been brought in to secure the vote.

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The leading candidates have promised thousands more police

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And when it comes to being tough on terrorism, it's sometimes hard

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TRANSLATION: We want to take back control of our borders

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TRANSLATION: I'll raise the level of protection

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on our borders by re-negotiating the Schengen treaty.

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TRANSLATION: Preachers of hatred must be expelled

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TRANSLATION: No Imam in any mosque will be able to preach

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The liberal newcomer, Emmanuel Macron, said

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TRANSLATION: At heart, it's our democracy that's

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I say don't give in to fear, division or intimidation.

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France is locked in a debate over how to stop attacks like this.

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Even harder perhaps to stop them influencing its democratic

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The health trust facing an investigation into the avoidable

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deaths of babies was told by regulators a decade

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ago that its maternity services needed to improve.

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The Health Care Commission told the Shrewsbury and Telford trust

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that its monitoring of babies' heart rates during labour wasn't good

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enough and that its training of staff was inadequate.

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Our social affairs correspondent Michael Buchanan reports.

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I had to give her medication at certain times, make

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I was more of a nurse and a carer than a mum.

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Abbey was born in 2004 with brain injuries,

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including severe epilepsy and cerebral palsy.

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Staff at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital failed to promptly

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deliver her, despite foetal heart traces

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The errors led to Abbey dying aged just 17 months.

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Her heart rate went down, down and down.

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Obviously they tried to move me to see if they could find a trace.

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If they would have done their job and got me into theatre

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when she was dropping, as in her heart rate dropping,

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Following Abbey's death in 2007, the BBC's Panorama programme learned

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the NHS regulator wrote to the Trust urging them to improve

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The Healthcare Commission said they should keep a record of foetal

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heart monitor traces, staff training needed updating

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and learning from clinical incidents had to improve.

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Two days ago, we asked the Trust to lay out

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the actions they'd taken following the Healthcare

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They failed to provide evidence that any changes had, in fact, been made.

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Instead, they say that every baby's death is investigated to ensure that

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lessons are learned and again, repeated their unreserved

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We were prepared to have a child, to change our lives completely. And

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that didn't happen. Staff at the Trust failed

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to properly monitor his heart rate His heart-broken parents

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are astonished the Trust was told a decade ago

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to improve its maternity care. It makes me angry, but it

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makes me sad as well, to think of all the people that have

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lost their children because they just haven't done

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anything, they haven't acted. This memory bear is Katie and Matt's

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lasting link to Kai. Years after the Trust

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was told to improve care, their son is one of several babies

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who need not have died. Michael Buchanan,

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BBC News, Shropshire. across the for this goal of the

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season against Celtic. But Ugo Ehiogu Will Bruin and

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Theresa May says there'll be no cuts to foreign aid but stops short

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of promising to keep pensions rising as they do now.

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And still to come, tributes to the former England

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who collapsed and died yesterday at the age of 44.

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Coming up on Sportsday in the next 15 minutes on BBC News, we'll have

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the latest from the Crucible, including the battle of two former

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champions, as Ronnie O'Sullivan looks to reach the third round

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A court has heard how a teenage computer hacker unleashed

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nearly two million cyber attacks on websites around the world using

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Adam Mudd, who is now 20, admitted creating the program

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The case comes as a new report by the National Crime Agency reveals

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It's been looking at ways to stop young people

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as our correspondent Angus Crawford reports.

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IN GERMAN: Die Website, titaniumstresser.net.

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The Titanium Stresser, a cyber weapon

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designed to shut down websites unless their owners paid a ransom.

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It bombarded targets with data, using DDOS,

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or distributed denial of service, attacks,

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and it was created by Adam Mudd when he was just 16.

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Internationally, this tool caused a considerable amount of damage...

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making hundreds of thousands of pounds.

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But after a massive attack in the US,

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the software was traced to his home in Hertfordshire.

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1.7 million DDOSs, making nearly $400,000 -

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that is like an industrial scale for the purposes of cybercrime.

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But are there other Adam Mudds out there,

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An online investigator shows us forums where they meet.

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Look, here, young people are openly discussing

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How young are the youngest people on here?

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I've seen youngsters from the age of 12, 13, 14.

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We find a user who says he's 15 and is happy to talk.

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I just asked him, by text, what age he started,

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The average age of cybercrime suspects is just 17,

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and police are so concerned they've launched this video.

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And they've helped put together this tech competition.

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Here, teenagers learn how to hack

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and stay on the right side of the law.

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you'll probably find the bad side a bit more interesting,

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It does seem quite easy, like hints of what we got to do.

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You've got in? We've just got in.

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There can be a fine line between hacker and criminal.

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After today, they should all know the difference.

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Len McCluskey, leader of Britain's biggest trade union, Unite,

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has been re-elected as its general secretary

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from his more moderate rival, Gerard Coyne,

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who was suspended from his post yesterday pending an investigation.

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But only 12% of Unite's million plus members voted.

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German police have arrested a man suspected of setting off the bombs

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that hit the Borussia Dortmund football team's bus last week.

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There had been initial fears it was a terror attack.

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But prosecutors now believe the man hoped to send the club's share price

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plummeting in the hope of making a profit on investments

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Tributes from players and managers have been paid to the former England

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and Aston Villa defender Ugo Ehiogu, who's died at the age of 44.

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He collapsed yesterday while coaching at

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Tottenham's training ground and died of cardiac arrest in hospital,

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as sports correspondent Joe Wilson reports.

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the time has just gone quarter past six, our top story this evening. Ugo

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Ehiogu was a rock, a central defender as strong and imposing as

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any in football. Now, at the age of 44, he has died. His passing was

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that most poignantly at Aston Villa, where he played for nearly a, a

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central defender as strong and imposing as any in football. Now, at

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the age of 44, he has died. His passing was that most poignantly at

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Aston Villa, where he played for nearly a decade. Well, all shocked

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and we are all shocked and devastated by the news that somebody

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so young who making his way was making his way as a talented coach

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he was an he was an football world will be shocked and saddened. Ugo

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Ehiogu was making his name as a coach with Tottenham. He barely

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looks like he had aged since his bling days. He suffered cardiac

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arrest at Tottenham's training ground yesterday. One man stood

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alongside him through his career, Gareth Southgate, defensive partners

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at Aston Villa and then and Middlesbrough, Southgate is now the

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England. All of the football world will be shocked and saddened. Ugo

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Ehiogu was making his name as a coach with Tottenham. He barely

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looked like he had aged since his bling days. He suffered cardiac

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arrest at Tottenham's training ground yesterday. One man stood

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alongside him through his career, Gareth Southgate, defensive partners

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at Aston Villa and then and Middlesbrough, Southgate is now the

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England manager. Southgate paid this tribute to Ehiogu :

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for football, the death of a dedicated for football, the death of

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a dedicated professional It was a rather unusual

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sight on the streets thousands of naked

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people painted blue. Now they're getting the chance

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to see the results for the first time in a new art exhibition to mark

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Hull as this year's City of Culture. The photographs were taken around

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the city's landmarks with people posing for the artist

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Spencer Tunick. Our arts correspondent

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Colin Paterson reports from Hull. What makes 3,200 people

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strip off their clothes Laura Dykes, support worker,

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Hull resident and I really wanted to be on a piece art

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work in the art gallery, I wanted him to come

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to the art gallery, and me It was July last year,

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when people came from as far as Japan and Australia to take

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part in artist Spencer Tunick's latest photographic extravaganza,

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Sea of Hull, featuring four I was trying to bring the sea back

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into Hull over paved and Cheek by jowl by buttock,

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from a distance, it looked With so many people from Hull

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taking part, it led to more I bumped into somebody from work,

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which was a bit awkward. Everyone was there

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to do the same thing. Once everyone was in the same

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situation and they got their kit How did the conversation go

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when you bumped into It was very much eye to eye

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and everything was kept above All the participants have been

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invited to this evening's launch to find out which parts

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of them have made the final photos. You would think there

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might be some kind of You had to ask strangers

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help you do the But because everybody

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was in the same situation, it was just - I will always

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look back on it fondly. The day Hull turned blue, now making

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a lot of people happy. the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge

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as you haven't heard them before. Last week, Harry Styles

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went straight to number one with his debut single,

:24:30.:24:31.

Sign Of The Times. Or will Ed Sheeran

:24:32.:24:33.

retain that top spot? He had 13 weeks at number one

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with Shape Of You before Harry came along

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and spoiled his Easter. The Royal couple helped Greg James

:24:44.:24:45.

kick off the official chart to talk about their

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mental-health campaign. Prince William also revealed

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that he had previously texted in to Radio 1

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under an assumed name. Time for a look at the weather,

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here's Helen Willetts. Michael Buchanan,

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BBC News, Shropshire. The weather is going to get much

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colder and will give us a shock to the system. What is the difference

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today? A cold weather front. We're heading to May and talking about

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snow already. Tonight, just frost we are talking about. Low-level frost

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in the north. In the south, we should keep temperatures a little

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higher. It is sunshine amounts that is troubling this weekend. Sunny in

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the north, although cold, and we should see more sunshine then we

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have in the South as well, across the south-west in particular. We

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have the remnants of a weather giving us a headache, so hopefully

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it will be dry and bright with increasing amounts of sunshine.

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Another cloudy day in Northern Ireland but for Scotland more

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sunshine. Just wintry showers over the hills at this stage. But it will

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get colder. Not necessarily too much colder tomorrow night. But again,

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Sunday morning will have a touch of ground frost. It promises well for

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the marathon. Not great for spectators but the runners will

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appreciate the cooler weather. If the cloud breaks, it will get warm

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into the afternoon. And there is more sunshine on offer on Sunday but

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again, the North will see the onset of increasing wind and rain later

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on, with low-pressure approaching. For most of us, high pressure this

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weekend will give dry weather. Here comes the shock. As the low-pressure

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moves away, we get a blast of Arctic air. Temperatures significantly

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lower than average, accentuated by the cold northerly wind. Wintry

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showers will be widespread. Hale, thunderstorms, sleet and snow, even

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in southern areas, and at lower levels we could see a dusting of

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snow. Just to reiterate, not this weekend, which looks cooler, but

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there should be dry weather with sunny spells. Not bad for running.

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That's all from the BBC News At Six, so it's goodbye from me,

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and on BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams where you are.

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