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The NHS is the victim of a major cyber attack.

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At least 25 hospitals trusts and GP surgeries

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Routine operations at some hospitals are being cancelled,

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patients sent home and ambulances diverted.

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The gentleman inside the door said that all the computers had gone down

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and we are not sure whether the doctors can see you for whatever

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reason, if it is x-rays, breakages, what have you, they are going to

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send you home. The cyber attack is a form of

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ransomware in which hospitals are being asked to pay money

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in order to restore The NHS is vulnerable because

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typically it has not invested enough in computer security, they use old

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computers, old systems, if they don't keep them wobbly patch, they

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will keep getting hit by attacks like this. -- if they don't keep

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them properly patched. The NHS has declared this

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a major national incident and there are now reports

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of companies coming under similar We'll bring you more

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on this developing story. Jeremy Corbyn warns against a bomb

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first, talk later foreign policy of deserting what she calls

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the "proud and patriotic" The schoolboy who died

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after an allergic reaction. A coroner says staff

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could have saved his life. And Donald Trump's Twitter

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tirade against his He warns James Comey not

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to talk to the media. Coming up on BBC News, one win away,

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can Chelsea secure a second Premier League title in three seasons with

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victory over West Brom this evening. Good evening and welcome

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to the BBC News at Six. The NHS is the victim

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of a major cyber attack. Since mid afternoon,

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computer systems in at least 25 hospital trusts and GP

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surgeries up and down England In those affected, routine

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operations are being cancelled, patients are being sent home

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and ambulances are being diverted. Patients are being asked to stay

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away unless their condition

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is life threatening. The cyber attack is a form

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of ransomware in which an IT system is hacked into and will only be

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restored on payment of a ransom. Hospital staff have been venting

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their frustration on social media, saying they have no access

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to patient records, blood tests, The scale of the cyber attack

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on the NHS is unprecedented. It's been declared a major national

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incident disrupting hospitals and trusts from Dumfries

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and Carlisle, Blackpool and York, to some of the big teaching

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hospitals in London, and services in

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the south of England. Our first report tonight

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from our health editor Hugh Pym. A major incident has been declared

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by NHS leaders in England and hospitals like this one in

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Colchester have been experiencing serious computer problems after a

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cyber attack. This is what some patients told us: the gentleman just

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inside the door said that all the computers have gone down, and they

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are not sure whether the doctors can see you forward have a reason. If it

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is x-rays, breakages, what have you, they will send you home. VOICEOVER:

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It has happened before, this hospital trust covering North

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Lincolnshire and gore, IT systems were closed for three days as the

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result of a cyber attack last autumn. Hundreds of operations and

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patient appointments were postponed, people were told to get to eight and

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the only if it was really necessary, there were warnings that NHS IT was

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honourable. And today staff looking in at other hospitals found this on

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their screens, with a message saying, your files are encrypted, if

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you want to recover them, you need to pay up. -- Northern Lincolnshire

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and Goole. -- A Ransomware, a hidden programme used by criminal

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hackers was being used. The NHS is vulnerable, typically it has not

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invested enough in computer security, using old computers and

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systems and if they don't keep them properly patched they will keep

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getting hit by attacks like this. In a statement, NHS digital,

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responsible for IT, has said: one doctor at this hospital in

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Mansfield told us how it was affecting services today: I had a

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meeting today, a patient with severe back pain, could potentially

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paralyse her. And we had to divert her to another hospital, Queens

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medical Centre. It is getting a bit difficult for us. We have a lot of

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patience here. It takes an awful lot of time for us to process the

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information on a paper system. Some hospitals warned local people they

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were experiencing significant IT and telephone problems. Some GP

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practices have also reported significant problems.

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STUDIO: Let's speak to our correspondents at some

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Helena Lee is at Barts in London

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To you first Helena, what's happening there?

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They have activated what they call a major incident plan for the welfare

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and safety of their patients. All routine appointments have been

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cancelled, Haitians have been told to use other NHS services if they

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can, and any ambulances arriving here have been diverted to

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neighbouring hospitals. We've just spoken to one

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patient who's waited months for a major heart operation,

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he was all prepared for the operation but it was cancelled

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at the last minute. Colchester general, treating more

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than half a million people every year, the potential here, as

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elsewhere, for destruction, was huge, having been inside and spoken

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to staff and patients, it seems to be measured and calm, one member of

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staff has said, tough but manageable. One of the patients, in

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the report, a few moans and groans but most people have been

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understanding when they were told they would be sent home. A couple of

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other patients say that they are yet to be convinced on this claim that

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patient's data has not in some way been compromised. This hospital

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works very closely with a hospital 19 miles up the road in its rich,

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sharing a Chief Executive, it is a sign of the patchwork nature of this

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at this one was affected by the other one was not. Broomfield

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Hospital, Chelmsford, was hit, and the list in Stevenage, and in

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Norfolk, but others unaffected, Adam Brook scum of the biggest hospital

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in this region, was unaffected. -- Adam Brook 's. -- Addenbrooke's

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Hospital. Let's talk to our technology

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correspondent, Rory Cellan Jones. What more can you tell us about this

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cyber attack and the ransomeware The most dangerous and most

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important weapon in the hands of cybercriminals, we have seen attacks

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over the last couple of years over the years including previous attacks

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on NHS hospitals, this is by far the biggest we have seen, and the NHS is

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stressing that it was not specifically targeted, this is a

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wider attack, and I'm seeing evidence of that, one researcher

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saying that 36 bells and detections, so far, Russia, Ukraine and Taiwan

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leading, this is huge, reports from many places across the world, in

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Spain in particular. -- 36,000 detections. We will bring you more

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on that story as it develops later in the programme.

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Jeremy Corbyn says the war on terror isn't working and Britain

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In a speech outlining his foreign policy, he said he wasn't a pacifist

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and could see circumstances in which he would involve Britain

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in a war but he warned against what he called a "bomb

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Mr Corbyn accused Theresa May of pandering to Donald Trump,

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who he said was making the world a more dangerous place.

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Here's our Deputy Political Editor John Pienaar.

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VOICEOVER: He is used to it now, all the attention, and not always

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friendly, though he still tries to be. Don't push each other, OK.

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Labour's campaign is so much about Jeremy Corbyn, his character, his

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ideas, he has held here for 30 years, though some in his party

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which he had not, like defence, and the Labour leader today was holding

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to his oldest and deepest convictions, writing of years of

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Britain's way of war against terror. The war on terror has not succeeded,

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it has driven these interventions and it has not increased security at

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home, in fact, many would say, just the opposite. This, Britain's

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leader, on-site and alongside with Donald Trump, not Jeremy Corbyn's

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answer, more talking, less fighting, yes, and a lot less cosy and is with

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Washington if Jeremy Corbyn wins. We deserve better than simply

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outsourcing defence and prosperity to the whims of Donald Trump's White

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House, no more handholding with Donald Trump. A Labour government

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will conduct a robust and independent foreign policy. The

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message, when facing terrorism, to rely on peace and diplomacy, but

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what about Britain's nuclear deterrent? And Jeremy Corbyn's

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lifelong opposition to nuclear defence, or potential Prime Minister

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that has become a nagging question, a live election issue, and he knew

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it. -- for a potential Prime Minister. I am often asked if I

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would order the use of nuclear weapons, it is an ordinary question

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when you think about it, would you order the indiscriminate killing of

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millions of people? Would you risk such contamination of the planet

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that no life could exist across large parts of the world? If

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circumstances arose where there was a real option, it would represent a

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complete and cataclysmic failure, it would mean world leaders have

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already triggered a spiral of catastrophe. That sounded like a no,

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he wanted nuclear defence reconsidered as well. We cannot

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decide what a review would decide otherwise we would not have a

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review. Would you say to -- what you say to supporters British military

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power, it is not clear when you would sent forces into battle,

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including strikes against Islamic State Western Mark McGrath I doubt

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many if any would have questioned the legitimacy ultimately of the

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Second World War because of the catastrophe of the rise of the

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Nazis. -- against Islamic State? British air strikes on so-called

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Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, which Jeremy Corbyn has opposed, he

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is glad now that he has joined the marches against the Iraq invasion,

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which drove down support for Labour in government, he wanted British

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raids against IS reviewed. Examine what they are doing straightaway,

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and their presence, but above all, that fits into the whole point I am

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saying, I would do everything I possibly could in order to reignite

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the peace process. Some, not all Labour supporters, agree, others,

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very far from it. A Labour Party led by Jeremy Corbyn that would simply

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chuck away at ability to defend ourselves is crazy and not the way I

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want so. You see defence policy sucking in billions of pounds on

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Trident, at a time when a conventional defence Force has seen

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cut after cut after cut. Approval for the leaders line here, today,

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but Labour needs converts, lots of them. -- leader's line.

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Well Theresa May was campaigning in the north-east today,

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in an attempt to win over Labour voters.

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She accused Jeremy Corbyn of deserting what she called

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"proud and patriotic" working class people.

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And as Mr Corbyn was outlying Labour's foreign policy plans,

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Mrs May didn't rule out a future parliamentary vote

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on joining American military strikes against Syria.

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Here's our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg.

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What the Tories might expect, a raw reception in much of the Northeast

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England. The Tories will ruin our environment. Can the Conservatives

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win around here, no! Definitely not! No chance! A very small selection of

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people canvassing for the Tories, we have a huge following for the

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Labour. Inside, Theresa May believes she can swell these polite ranks of

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her supporters, trying to stir up national pride, with talk of

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security, and defence, while slamming her Labour opponents, who

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have been in charge round here for a long time. Proud and patriotic

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working class people, in towns and cities across Britain, have not

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deserted the Labour Party, we respect the parents and grandparents

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taught their children and grandchildren that Labour was a

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party that share their values and stood up for their community. But

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across the country today, traditional Labour supporters are

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increasingly looking at what Jeremy Corbyn believes in, and are

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appalled. Beyond the attack lines, on safety and security, what might

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she do if she stays in charge? You have thought a lot about Patrick

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isn't today, would you think it patriotic to join the United States

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in more strikes against Syria, or will you rule out having a

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parliamentary vote on that? We are, as you know, the United Kingdom is

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part of the coalition that is operating in Syria and Iraq, with

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the United States, but with other countries as well, when I look at

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the decisions we will be taking in terms of defence and foreign policy,

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there is one thing that will drive the decisions, that those decisions

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will be taken in the British national interest. Not quite a no

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will stop and she really take the Tories beyond small pockets of the

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north-east? Look at the side of the bus to see how they hope. -- not

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quite a no. Her name in giant letters, you almost need a

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magnifying glass for the party. We will deliver for Britain. She may be

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well ahead in the polls, the Tory manifesto is not even published yet,

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how far can she really reach? I was Labour if you year ago, when I first

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started voting, but my views are changing, working life and what is

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happening in this world, in this country, my views are changing.

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INAUDIBLE QUESTION I haven't. You will be voting

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Conservative the first time? Yes, strong opinions on "Brexit", that

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has changed my mind, that is where I want to see the country go,

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stand-alone, move forward that way. Getting on the road in the

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north-east is part of a deliberate strategy, not just in trying to win,

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but in trying to pump up the majority. I've used virtually every

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form of transport you can think of in this election campaign, except

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horses. However she travels and whatever the polls say today,

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shifting huge numbers of votes in Labour territory is a hard sell.

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Theresa May has already been to more than 20 Labour seats, including some

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here in the north-east which should traditionally be safe as houses. The

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Tories say that she is selling a positive message, every day they are

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trying to display contrast between her and Jeremy Corbyn, brutally

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trying to strip away the Labour vote. I'm the only one more

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important than the Prime Minister! LAUGHTER

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Convention suggest whole chunks of the North of England, Scotland and

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Wales are not safe for the Conservatives but Theresa May wants

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to 's persuade you that the country's future is only safe with

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her. -- wants to persuade you that the country's future is only safe

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with her. STUDIO: The Liberal Democrats

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have confirmed they The party would allow licensed

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shops to sell the drug People would also be able to grow

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cannabis at home and smoke The NHS is being hit

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by a major cyber attack - as computers go down,

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patients are being sent home And still to come -

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Donald Trump takes to Twitter again, this time to take on his former FBI

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director James Comey. And in sport on BBC News,

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can Lewis Hamilton reinvigorate his Formula 1 title challenge

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at the Spanish Grand Prix? He's fastest after second

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practice in Barcelona. A coroner has concluded that

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a teenager who died from an allergic reaction to his school lunch

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could possibly have been saved if staff had given him the adrenalin

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injection he needed. 14-year-old Nasar Ahmed,

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who had severe asthma and a wide range of food allergies,

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collapsed at a school Our correspondent Sarah Campbell has

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been at the inquest today. Nasar Ahmed love maths and science

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and wanted to be a politician. He also suffered a severe asthma and

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food allergies. His family have heard in detail how he came to die

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after having an extreme allergic reaction to an ingredient in a curry

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he had for lunch while at school. A couple of hours after Nasar had

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eaten, he told staff here that he couldn't breathe. There was

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confusion as to what might be wrong and his personal medical box was

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found. It contained an adrenaline injector pen, or EpiPen, but there

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were no instructions as to how or when to use it. So nobody did. The

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coroner concluded that if the EpiPen had been used promptly and Nasar had

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been administered adrenaline, there was a possibility but not a

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probability that this would have changed the outcome. Nasar died four

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days later in hospital. His family said the school let them and their

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sundown. They failed in their care of duty for my son, they failed to

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give the right injection. If they gave the EpiPen injection at that

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time, five minutes before the ambulance came, it would have saved

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his life. The school issued a statement today are saying following

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Nasar's death, we have reviewed safety procedures and are providing

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more training for staff across the board. The coroner will be writing

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several reports including to Nasar's School in an effort to prevent

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future deaths. She will also suggest to the Chief Medical Officer that if

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more EpiPens were available and more widely understood, lives could be

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saved. Sarah Campbell, BBC News, east London.

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Donald Trump has warned his former FBI director James Comey

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against leaking stories to the press, saying

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on Twitter that he'd "better hope there are no tapes"

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Mr Comey, who had been leading an inquiry into alleged Russian

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meddling in the US election, was sacked by the president

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Our North America Editor Jon Sopel is at the White House.

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Jon, Donald Trump is unbowed by his critics and making a clear

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It's hard to read it any other way, Fiona. If you read the text of that,

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James Comey had better not have any tapes, that sounds like a threat. It

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also sounds like Donald Trump has been taping conversations that have

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been taking place in the White House in the Oval Office. That has strong

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echoes of another president, Richard Nixon, who was brought down by those

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tapes. I am not sure that is the territory where Donald Trump wants

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to be. He is about to give a briefing, or his spokesman is about

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to give a briefing. He is bound to be asked, are you taping

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conversations with people who come to visit? Other things Donald Trump

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had to did this morning, and we have come to expect the unexpected, he

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said about the briefings, as a very active president with lots of things

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happening, it is not usable for my surrogates to stand at the podium

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with perfect accuracy. In other words, maybe what we are telling you

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is not strictly true. Then he goes on "But let's cancel the briefings,

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maybe, and we will just give you written statements in future". This

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all comes as Donald Trump has had some good news today on a trade deal

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with China. But all of that is getting completely lost in the

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threat that has been issued to his former head of the FBI. Jon Sopel at

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the White House, thank you. In the run-up to the general

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election, we've been asking you about the subjects that you care

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about and want covered. A lot of you have got in touch

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about business rates - the tax based on how much a business

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property is worth. Some independent shops in England

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are facing big increases after their property values

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were revalued by the government. Elaine Dunkley has been to Southwold

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in Suffolk to find out more. Business rates are a massive issue

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for small businesses. I'm Rebecca Bishop and I'm the owner

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of Two Magpies Bakery in Southwold. Nobody was foreseeing the massive

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increases that we were suddenly It is a really important

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issue because it's not just my business I'm thinking of,

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it's all the other Rebecca's bakery is classed

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as a small business. Her rates have been capped

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until April next year, but after that, she says she doesn't

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know what will happen. It will become just another nail

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in the coffin for businesses that are fighting, some

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of them, to survive. A lot of small independents,

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we're almost looking at a species wipe-out of whole areas that

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are just being overtaken Part of the problem is that property

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prices have gone up in the town. The locals say that's driven

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by holiday lets, second homes But we're looking

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forward to the summer. I'm the owner of Mills

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Sons family butchers. Charlie could be facing rates

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of up to ?17,000 a year. If we can't make a profit,

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we won't be able to stay. So we shall have to look

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at other alternatives. Southwold has become

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an expensive place to stay. Maybe it's a little too expensive

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for independent shops. For the butcher and the baker

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and the other small businesses, this is a big election issue,

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a vote decider. I would be looking to vote

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for a government that is giving support to the notion of diversity

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on the high street, valuing independent businesses

:23:52.:23:54.

and what they bring to our society And if you want to find out

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or indeed find out how to contact us with an issue you want exploring,

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then our website is Let's return to our main story

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and the cyber attack on the NHS. This has been breaking since this

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afternoon and we are finding out more about who is involved in which

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hospitals have been affected. Updaters on what you know so far? It

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seems that it is about 25 organisations in England. That is

:24:48.:24:51.

trusts and some in Scotland. That is the extent of it that we know about.

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But it seems as if there could be more to come and it is a national

:24:57.:24:59.

incident being monitored at the highest levels of the NHS in

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England. They have put out a statement reassuring patients that

:25:04.:25:06.

if they need the NHS and it is an emergency, they should go to A and

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normal service is available. But they are asking people, if they

:25:12.:25:15.

don't need to be at A, to be elsewhere. We have had reports of

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trauma cases heading for one hospital and being switched to

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another. The message is that urgent care is still available at the NHS.

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What about nonurgent care, patients who have operations scheduled, GP

:25:28.:25:30.

appointments? What should they do? We have heard from patients going

:25:31.:25:35.

into this afternoon being sent away because their routine outpatient

:25:36.:25:38.

appointment couldn't happen or a test. It seems likely there will be

:25:39.:25:41.

disruption for several days and that routine surgery will be put off

:25:42.:25:45.

while they try to get to the bottom of the IT problem. The last time it

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happened in Lincolnshire at the end of last year, it was two or three

:25:49.:25:52.

days before things got back to normal. We are hearing from GPs that

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there are serious issues for them. They are having difficulty providing

:25:58.:26:01.

patient care. They are able to talk to patients and advise them, by

:26:02.:26:07.

getting hold of records has been impossible. So possibly a lot of

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disruption to GP appointments running well into next week. Hugh,

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thank you. The Highlands of Scotland were the

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case to be today for sunshine and warmth, whereas elsewhere across the

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UK, there was a good deal of crowd, some outbreaks of rain and a bit of

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sunshine. Here is the satellite and radar picture, which was quite

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messy. A lot of cloud and rain moving away from the north-west of

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England, heading towards Northern Ireland. We will see rain pushing

:26:38.:26:42.

into the south of Wales. Parts of Scotland are also quite wet. But

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other parts of England are largely dry. It is not a cold night. By nine

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in the morning, it is dry and bright and breezy across the south of the

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UK. Most places will be dry. There will be a shower or two, but the

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cloud will break and allow sunshine through. In the north of Wales, more

:27:05.:27:08.

cloud and outbreaks of rain, as you will find in the south-west of

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England. Northern Ireland will also see outbreaks of rain. Still pretty

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great along the eastern side of Scotland. And we will keep it rather

:27:18.:27:28.

grey as well. Looks like the south-east will be largely dry in

:27:29.:27:31.

the afternoon. Temperatures are quite warm. Through the evening, we

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start to see a band of rain work from west to east. Shouldn't last

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too long in any given location and by dawn on Sunday, it will clear

:27:42.:27:46.

into the North Sea. Some of it may linger for a time in the north-east

:27:47.:27:49.

of Scotland, but even that clears away and then it is a bright and

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breezy day on Sunday. There will be lengthy spells of sunshine, but

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there will be a few showers as well. Most of those will be in the

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north-west, but some will crop up in the Midlands as well. And a slightly

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fresher feel to things. The NHS is being hit by a major

:28:05.:28:16.

cyber attack as computers go down, patients are being sent home and

:28:17.:28:17.

ambulances are being diverted. 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

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the BBC's news teams where you are.

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