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The rising tide of knife crime in Britain -

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and why police say they can't deal with it on their own.

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Paula had a call from her daughter stating her 15-year-old grandson has

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been stabbed. Caller is hysterical. On patrol in Birmingham -

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the knife is this country's number one murder weapon -

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and they're wielded by children. We need to step right back,

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and that's eight year olds, nine year olds, and guide them

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in a better direction We'll be looking at efforts

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to change attitudes to knife crime. It's three weeks since

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the Grenfell Tower disaster - just 14 households have been

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found satisfactory accommodation. A damning report on how police

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treated a disabled refugee before he was murdered -

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racial bias may have played a part. A vision of the future -

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Volvo becomes the first major car maker to say it will phase out

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petrol and diesel -only A tough match and a thrilling

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end takes Joanna Konta We'll have all the latest from a big

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day for the British players Join me for Wimbledon

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Sportsday at 6:30. Good evening and welcome

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to the BBC News at Six. Knife crime is now one

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of the greatest challenges facing In fact, the knife is Britain's

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number one murder weapon. The figures are all the more

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shocking because increasingly both victims and perpetrators are young -

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children and teenagers. Last year nearly 32,500 knife crimes

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were committed in England and Wales. That figure was up 14%

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on the previous year. Senior police officers say

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there needs to be a change Our Home Affairs correspondent,

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June Kelly, has been on police patrol in Birmingham and met some

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of those working A summer evening in Birmingham

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and the Force Response teams from West Midlands Police

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are dealing with dozens Caller has had a call

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from her daughter stating the 15-year-old grandson

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has been stabbed. He doesn't live in this

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road, he was found here. The teenager is helped

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into the ambulance by his mate. No sign of the attacker and no

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information from the victim. Are you doing anything productive

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at that particular job? And once again there is no

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corporation from this second victim. Unfortunately he didn't

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want to provide a statement or provide us an account or tell us

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where the incident had occurred. So there is very little

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we could actually do or investigate. But we can still record

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the matter as a crime. In the West Midlands just

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like the rest of the country, Do you understand the reasons why

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you're being searched? Lives lost, victims

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scarred and maimed. And more people found

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to be carrying blades. The teenage grime artist

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from Birmingham had fans He was murdered weeks

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after his 18th birthday. A row over a girl spiralled

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into a fight and then his rival pulled a knife and plunged it

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into his heart. Seven hours later, Depzman,

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real name Joshua Ribera, was dead. Now his mum Alison goes into schools

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and uses her son's name, fame and death to drive home

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the consequences of carrying knives. We're not showing these children's

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faces because they have been permanently excluded

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from mainstream schools. Every single time his heart stopped,

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he fought back and fought back But on the morning of the 21st

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of September at 5:58am, We were given unique

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access to this class, part of City of Birmingham School

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which looks after excluded children. At the entrance there is a scanner

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to stop any weapons coming in. Why do you think someone

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is going to carry a knife And today the pupils are also

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hearing from Constable Rob Pedley. He's in different schools every week

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as part of a campaign by West Midlands Police

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to try to turn teenagers away If you go to your kitchen drawer

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at home, take out one of the sharp knives,

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you are carrying the country's Staff here have enlisted Rob

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and Alison because every day they are battling

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to keep his children While we cannot show their faces,

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we were able to record their words. They know about knives being used

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as initiation into gangs. When you take a beating, they only

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have to stab you in the arm. Nathan spent most of his teens

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in and out of young And has served jail

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terms for knife crime. He has tried to turn his life around

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and now as well as being a rapper, How are you going

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to break that cycle? People who have been through things,

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people who have gone to prison, real people who have been

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in situations are the best people to help reform

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people and give people, tell people about their experiences

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and definitely workshops and help promote more awareness

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about these things. And showing, you know what I mean,

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looking at the consequences of why these things,

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what can happen. And as the mother of a murdered

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son, Alison is calling for a different approach to stop

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so many ruined lives. Looking at them as being scum

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of society is not working. We need to step right

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back to nine-year-olds, eight-year-olds, and guide them

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in a better direction. It is going to be a big

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old blue light, then. Around the country,

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police are trying to crack And it will take a change

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of mindset and culture As you said police believe they are

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dealing with the crime but also a whole culture. Yes and last week the

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most senior police officer, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner

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Cressida Dick said it would be about changing attitudes and behaviour and

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to do that they need the help of individuals and organisations. So

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the work of someone like Alison in that piece is so vital because as a

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bereaved mother she can drive home the consequences of carrying knives.

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Of course all young people are under peer pressure but some teenagers in

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some parts of society when they leave home will pick up a knife in

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the same way as they pick up their mobile phone and that is the mindset

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all anti-knife campaigners are trying to change and challenge.

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Thank you very much. Just days after calls for him

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to step down the chairman of the Grenfell Tower public inquiry

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has promised to listen It comes as the government has sent

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a task forced to run key parts of the council.

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Our Special correspondent Lucy Manning reports.

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The missing posters have been here for three weeks.

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They flutter a painful reminder, because time has

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Now the police search through the 15 tonnes

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of debris on each floor, still trying to find all the Grenfell

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Karim Musilly was at the meeting the police and coroner

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He went over to comfort some young children,

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I want that to stick and stay with the family.

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We may never know if my uncle is ever going to be

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The family is just broken, you know, and...

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This is something that can never be fixed and they want to

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be able to bury their loved ones, pray for their loved ones, you know,

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say goodbye in any way, shape or form, and it sounds like always

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- all we are going to have is the brief on his flat,

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The police now say they have recovered all the

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remains from the building that were visible,

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and 87 recoveries, as they

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put it, have been made, but they stressed because of the catastrophic

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damage done that doesn't mean 87 people, and they still can't say how

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Meanwhile, survivors struggle carrying bags of donated

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Three weeks and you will have housing, was

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This survivor didn't want to be identified, scared of being

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I didn't take them up on the offer, they were very expensive to rent and

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although they have promised that they were going to pay for a whole

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year, I didn't have to pay for a year,

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but after that I said, you

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know, put it in writing, and they said the legal documents are not

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People would prefer to stay in their emergency temporary

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accommodation within hotels, and make one move into permanent

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accommodation, so there have actually only been

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You would like to move the children away

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With the residents feeling scared and let down, the

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government has now sent in an external task force to run some

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parts of the council, including housing.

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Hearing the harrowing account of survivors has been the most

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humbling and moving experience of my life.

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The families that I've met have been through unimaginable pain.

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Today at the interest a six-year-old was named and Sheila Smith described

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as a truly beautiful person. Lucy Manning, BBC News.

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The public sector pay cap was the subject of some fierce

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exchanges in the House of Commons today.

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Theresa May suggested she won't back the lifting of the current one

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Labour accused the Prime Minister of 'recklessly exploiting

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the goodwill' of teachers, nurses and other

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We need to balance the need to be fair to public sector

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To protect jobs in the public sector, and to be fair

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Instead of offering platitudes, offer some real help and real

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support for those in work, young people, who deserves

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better and deserve to be given more optimism,

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So the argument is over what the country can afford.

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Well, there are some new figures out today.

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According to the office for national statistics UK productivity has

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dropped back to below what it was before

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Essentially, productivity is a measure of how much

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wealth is created by every worker in Britain.

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Let's talk to our economics editor Kamal Ahmed.

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What you make of these figures and how do they feed into this argument

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about pay? Well there are disappointing, productivity has

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fallen for the first three months of the year. That puts the UK again at

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a disadvantage to the main competitors, productivity is far

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better in America, Germany, and France. A stark illustration of that

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in productivity if we look at the amount of value that workers

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produce, for the amount of time it takes the UK worker to produce ?1 in

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value from their work, a German worker produces ?1.36, so the German

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economy is far more efficient, there is much more business investment in

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making their businesses operate better. Productivity is important

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because if we have good productivity figures it tends to feed through

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into good wages. Looking at the wages, the history UK, we know that

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people are struggling. If we look at wage growth from February to April

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this year just 1.7%, in stark contrast to that figure, 2.8%, for

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the past 16 years that. So wage growth being depressed by the

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productivity problem. And if you have poor productivity is bad for

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economic growth, bad for tax receipts for the government and that

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means the government has less income to spend on public services, those

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services they were arguing about today in Westminster.

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A disabled refugee who was beaten to death and set alight

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by his neighbour in Bristol four years ago - was repeatedly failed

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That's the conclusion of the Independent Police

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Complaints Commission, who say officers ignored

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The commission said there was evidence that "racial bias"

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at the force affected the officers response.

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the sisters of Bijan Ebrahimi have some more answers.

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They've been told their vulnerable younger brother was repeatedly

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failed by police in the years before he was murdered - treated

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Reading that report, it was devastating.

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They say the list of failings has shocked them.

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It was so hard to see Bijan all these years been suffering,

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He always thought that he's in a country that the police

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Don't you dare take pictures of me, all right...

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Today's report says Bijan didn't just fear for his life in the days

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before he was murdered by this neighbour, Lee James...

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But that he'd called police repeatedly from a number

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of addresses over several years, asking for help.

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But time and time again, he was ignored.

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What part of be quite do you not understand?

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Today's report runs to hundreds of pages, and it says this whole

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case has laid bare what it calls the disrespect, the prejudice

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and even contempt with which some officers and staff treated

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Bijan Ebrahimi in the days before he was murdered here.

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Last year, PC Kevin Duffy and community support officer

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Andrew Passmore were jailed after being convicted

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PCs Leanne Winter and Helen Harris were cleared by the jury,

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but were later sacked by a misconduct hearing.

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Bijan's family have raised questions about racism within the force.

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There are some hallmarks of discrimination that could be

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There are overwhelming elements of evidence that indicate

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this was discrimination against a very vulnerable man.

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Avon and Somerset Police say this case has already

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We accept that we failed Bijan Ebrahimi at his time

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of greatest need, and throughout that time he was respectful

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and he had confidence and trust in us, the police,

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and we let him down, and for that, we are sorry.

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In this city, known for its tolerance, tonight

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many questions remain, and four years after the murder

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of Bijan Ebrahimi, there is still another major report

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The rising tide of knife crime in Britain -

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officers say there needs to be a change in attitudes

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And still to come, Wimbledon on Wednesday has had the sunshine and a

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very successful British centre court.

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All the action from day three of Wimbledon, and there's

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a new leader at the Tour de France, a familiar face too,

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because the defending champion - Chris Froome -

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has taken the leader's yellow jersey on stage five.

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It was one of the key issues in the recent election -

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the cost of going to University and the debts students pile up.

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Now a new study from the respected Institute for Fiscal Studies has

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Those from the poorest backgrounds will owe up to

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And three-quarters of them will never clear it.

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However, the Government says that those from poorer backgrounds

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are now going to university at a record rate -

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Here's our education editor Branwen Jeffreys.

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A sunny afternoon on campus, but in the background,

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Many students want tuition fees scrapped.

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I was the first year to experience the 9K debts.

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It means that many students will leave higher education

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with a lifetime of debt that they will never

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People I know have struggled to work and to continue

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Some of them have even been forced to drop out.

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We don't just need engineers, linguists, computer programmers

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We also need people who generate culture,

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people who think about society, imagine the new societies

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?9,000 a year tuition fees, 6.1% interest from September;

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a threshold frozen at ?21,000 in earnings to start to repay,

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with up to ?57,000 in total debt for poorer students.

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They now have loans for living costs, not grants.

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The money from tuition fees has allowed universities to expand.

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And despite the tuition fee increases, growing numbers of young

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people are applying to study for a degree.

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Well, today's report shows just how much the burden of debt has

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increased for the poorest students, and for the first time in many

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years, there's a different kind of political debate

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Still, ministers say this is about sharing the cost fairly.

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Between the individual student, who goes on in most circumstances

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to have much higher lifetime earnings, and the general taxpayer,

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who in many cases won't have had a chance to go to university

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Close to the university, the leafy Regent's Park

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Estate, people are working hard, paying taxes.

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People who get good jobs, solicitors, barristers and all that,

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yeah, they can afford to pay it back.

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But a lot of people leave college with good grades and find it very

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The 3000 level was affordable to normal human beings,

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ie not the rich, but 9000 is a little bit too

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If they get the rewards at the end of it, then

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obviously it's worth it, isn't it?

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It's worth, I suppose, getting into debt.

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I suppose there's two ways of looking at it.

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There are indeed, and with more poor students dropping out,

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The Italian government has made the latest offer to help

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the terminally ill baby Charlie Gard.

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But the Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, says that for legal

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reasons it is impossible for him to be transferred to the Vatican's

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Charlie Gard's parents have already lost their legal battle,

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both here and in the European Court, to keep him alive against

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the advice of doctors at the Great Ormond Street

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A man has been found guilty of killing two former

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52-year-old Robert Trigg was convicted of the murder

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of Susan Nicholson in 2011, and the manslaughter

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He had denied the charges, claiming they had died in their sleep.

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Volvo will become the first major car manufacturer to ensure that

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all models will be powered by either electric or hybrid

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So-called 'alternative fuel vehicles' are currently the fasting

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growing sector in the car market, although they still only make up

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Here's our transport correspondent Richard Westcott.

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The shapes have changed a bit over the years, but thank goodness when

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it comes to the Brown Allegro, but all these things have one thing in

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common, an internal combustion engine, burning petrol or diesel.

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We've relied on it for 100 years, but is that about a change? Volvo

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cars is taking a bold step forward, heralding the end of an era for the

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pure internal combustion engine. Volvo says all its new models will

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be partly electric. Ambitious plans, but experts say it won't be quick.

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Diesel and petrol will have a long life, yet a lot of people will

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choose to adopt hybrids before they go all electric and during that time

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back trees will improve, which will increase the range of miles you can

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do, and prices will drop, which will make them more tenable for people to

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buy. It will be quite a while before we see all electric cars as all cars

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on the road. In fact, sales of alternative engines remain small. In

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June last year, more than 8300 electric and hybrid vehicles were

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registered in the UK. That increased to nearly 11,000 this year, but it

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is still dwarfed by the quarter of a million petrol and diesel cars

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people bought. This street sums up one of the big reasons that plug-in

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cars haven't sold in any great numbers. Many of us live in houses

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like this, we don't have garages, we live in flats, you often can't even

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park near your house, so how are you supposed to charge your electric

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car? Then there's the problem of topping

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up mid-journey. Certainly some of the country is

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better than others. Newcastle in the north-east, there's quite a lot of

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charging infrastructure. Wales is very poor. To get to where we are,

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where we need to be, lots of different parties will have do come

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together and put in charging points. Workplaces, businesses will need to

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put it in for their staff, supermarkets, anyone with a public

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car park available. Electric cars are getting cheaper with a better

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range. It will be still some years yet before the internal combustion

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engine drives off for good. Richard Westcott, BBC News.

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After injury retirements left the centre court crowd

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shortchanged yesterday, Wimbledon promised

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Sunshine, and the number 1 seed in the men's draw and the number 6

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Quick tour, take in the band, hydrate with a friend... A healthy

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snack. OK, not so healthy. You are here for the traditional, but also

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the unusual. Two British players, woman and man, contender and

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defender, both on Centre. Here was a match of true intensity. Johanna

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Konta at the top of the screen, the Croatian Donna Vekic at the other

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end and the ball flying. Konte took the first set and took the

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tie-break. The trouble was, in the second set Konte could not hold her

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serve does that she was broken again here and the set went to Vekic 6-3.

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The match had altered course, alarmingly. Flying ants on course,

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Vekic dealt with that opponent, but the tennis was relentless. This

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match stretched on past three hours. Look at this point, in the 17th game

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of the third set. Someone had to win, and quantum broke decisively.

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-- Konte broke decisively. 10-8 in the final set, how it feels to give

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everything and women, and to give everything and lose.

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Well, compose yourself and prepare for more. Now it was Andy Murray. He

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knew his second-round opponent well, good friends with Dustin Brown and

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new to expect the unexpected. That can mean really good tennis.

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But all the players took towels filled with ice to deal with high

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temperatures on court, a diet of iced barbs is helping Murray get the

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tournament and he had the greater consistency in the first set, taking

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it 6-3. Back and forth it went in the second set, the difference

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between the two players was that often Dustin Brown made the

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mistakes. The set went to Murray, 6-2, moving pretty well.

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Moving better and better. I can tell you Andy Murray raced through the

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third set and won 6-2 to complete victory in the match. He was on

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court for one hour and 36 minutes. He can really enjoy his ice bath.

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All rows in a comfortable win for Andy Murray against Dustin Brown.

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Also victories for Aljaz Bedene and Heather Watson, both through to

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round three. Barely a cloud on the British horizon tonight, and Rafa

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Nadal just coming onto Centre Court. Thank you very much.

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Barely a cloud he said. Yes, some had some sunscreen has been as

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important as stories and green today. It has been a scorcher.

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We peaked at around 29, tomorrow a similar story and those temperatures

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set fair for the remainder of this week's play. Today, just under 30

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degrees in the south-east corner. Look where we saw some cloud,

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disappointing, cold and grey for the far north-east. Through the night

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like, those temperatures we have had through the day and not falling very

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far at all. Mid-to high teens quite widely. It will be an uncomfortable

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night if you're trying to get a decent night's sleep and some sharp

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showers rolling through Northern Ireland, western Scotland and moving

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up through the Channel coast as well. Some of them possibly heavy

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thundery and still lingering through the early morning rush hour, close

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to the M4 corridor. A warm start for many. There will be some sunshine in

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East Anglia, and into Wales. Clouding over a little into the

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North of England. For Northern Ireland, already though showers

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easing away. They will be sitting across much of western Scotland. So

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yes, some showers first thing in the morning but it is important to

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emphasise that tomorrow is going to largely be dry, hot and sunny for

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many of us. But as those temperatures start to climb into the

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afternoon, there is a chance of one or two home-grown but isolated

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showers. These really could be quite heavy if you catch one or two of

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them. Hopefully they will stay fairly isolated. Look at the highs,

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30 in the south-east. Mid-to high 20s across England and Wales, even

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21 degrees, not bad, for Scotland, in comparison to what you have had

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so far this week. A great story continues into Friday, clouding over

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into the far north-west with signs of rain to come for the weekend.

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Thank you. 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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