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trading with the EU and the rest of the world after Brexit -

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Buying and selling across borders - the Brexit Secretary says keeping

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trade as simple as possible will work for the EU as well.

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BMW do not want to have to have a customs border

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that is going to slow down their sales and add

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But a top EU official calls the plan a fantasy.

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Also tonight: Millions face a more expensive commute next year.

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So many of us are not getting pay rises that can manage that.

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My pay rise is maximum 1%, so that makes us worse off when they

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The death toll in Sierra Leone rises after yesterday's mudslide.

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Now health experts fear a spread of cholera and typhoid.

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Even by the reckoning of the head of this

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mortuary, who has been doing this for decades, it's absolutely

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India, the world's most populous democracy, marks 70

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And I'm in the city of Amritsar looking at the country's potential

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and the problems that are holding it back.

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And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: they're

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without Philippe Coutiniho, Daniel Sturridge and Adam Lallana,

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but Liverpool battle on against Hoffenheim

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in their Champions' League qualifier tonight.

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Good Evening and welcome to the BBC's News at Six.

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The Government has set out its plans for trading with the EU and the rest

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Ministers want to avoid a sudden and drastic change for business

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so they're calling for a temporary relationship with the EU

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while a more permanent arrangement is developed.

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Their ultimate goal is to have a system of trade

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with the EU that is as close as possible to what we have now.

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But the EU parliament's chief negotiator described

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Our business editor Simon Jack reports.

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Nearly 20% of all goods traded with the EU come through here.

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Businesses fear any blockages to trading arteries like this

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would have serious consequences for them and the rest of the UK.

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For logistics firms, like this one in Kent, time is money.

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Our business runs on just in time basis, moving goods

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If we ended up having shipments having to do customs clearances

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in bound and outbound that would be damaging in terms of the amount

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of time we would spend at Dover going in and out of the country

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and that would almost grind our business to a halt.

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There may be 21 miles of sea between here and France but in trade

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terms there is no barrier thanks to our membership

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It's a club of EU countries in which individual

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Goods move freely and with minimal check-up.

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But there is still an external border between the EU and the rest

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of the world at which goods are checked and in some cases tariffs

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So, what happens when we are outside the club?

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Today the Government said it wanted to leave,

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it wanted a new deal but in the period before that could happen,

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One is the ongoing, easy customs arrangement that allows sale of

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goods into the European Union but also from them to us,

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The interim period, it'll take time to get

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structures in place, will be a bit like the customs union now.

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This is an ambitious document, by technically

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leaving the customs union, by leaving border arrangements

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unchanged for a couple of years, you'll get

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minimised disruption, while at the same time forging

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new arrangements with people around the world before

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we eventually end up with an almost frictionless

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arrangement with our old friends in the EU.

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Which is why many think there's one long recipe

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One EU official described parts of the proposal as "fantasy" while

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Brussels top negotiator said there were more

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important things to settle first like citizens rights

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No-one wants friction at the borders, especially the ones

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The Government will release more details

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There are so many issues to unpick, some politicians wonder

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whether the Government has its priorities right.

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This seems to be all about the problems in the

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Conservative Party and really not about addressing the situation faced

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by the British public and the needs of the economy and jobs.

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Well, why don't we just stay in the customs union?

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If they want to have something, that, you know, if it looks like a

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duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck,

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We're leaving but nothing will change at

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the border for now, that at least is what the Government is hoping for.

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Let's get the reaction from Brussels -

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We know exactly what the UK Government wants. But what do the

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EU's priorities? George, the EU's first priority is protecting its

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timetable, hence that tweet from the chief negotiator saying it's make

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progress on the issues of Ireland, the UK's financial obligations and

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citizens' rights first, before moving on to the next phase of talks

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which is about the future relationship. Although it will be

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intriguing to see if this British paper published today kick-starts a

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discussion amongst the other EU countries about what that future

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relationship might look like. I imagine that was one of the

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intentions of the British Government today in publishing that paper. The

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EU's other priority is protecting the EU itself and in this case that

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means stopping the UK becoming some kind of back door for imports of

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cheaper or lower quality goods into the EU. So that will guide their

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thinking on this issue of customs. The fact is officials here in this

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city have been crying out for more details about the British

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Government's vision of Brexit and the details, so they're actually

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very happy this paper published today is the first in a deluge of

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documents heading this way from London.

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Thank you. Millions of rail passengers

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will see the biggest rise They're going up by 3.6%

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in January, because of a rise The increases will affect season

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tickets, so called "anytime" tickets Unions have called it a kick

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in the teeth for passengers. Our transport correspondent,

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Richard Westcott, has the story. Rebecca's commute from Taunton

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to Bristol costs ?3,500 a year and it's due to go up by ?130 next

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year as most commuters There is this gradual erosion

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of your actual real wealth that's happening to an awful lot of people

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where you will find that your salary may have gone up but everything else

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is going up so much faster and so much more that year

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on year we're all actually, It's not the train companies that

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set around half of our rail fares, it's actually the Government

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and they've been putting the fares up for years

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because they want to change who pays It's all part of a plan to shift

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the financial burden away from taxpayers,

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most of whom don't commute Fares used to account for about half

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the cost of running our trains. Across Britain, people

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are facing tough choices. If it goes up, I probably won't even

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be able to afford to go to work. I will have to get the car to work

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because it's cheaper I work in the public sector,

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my pay rise is maximum 1% so that makes us worse off when they put

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fares up like that. I wouldn't mind the rise if you got

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a better quality carriage They're pretty tatty

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these things now. Campaigners have criticised the use

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of the RPI rate of inflation which is usually higher but the rail

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firms say they face Railway companies costs are going up

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in line with that inflation as well so they have to cover those costs

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in order to be able to provide the services

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that we want as passengers. Ministers argue that the money

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is needed to pay for a ?40 billion A lot of it is still Victorian

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and it's struggling to cope Critics claim fares have outstripped

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wages for years and say it's The Government could still change

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its mind in the Autumn Budget. The public inquiry into

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the Grenfell Tower fire - which left more than 80 people dead

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- is officially under way today. It will examine how the blaze

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started and the actions But broader social questions

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will not be considered. This has led to criticism

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from the local MP, residents and campaigners, as our special

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correspondent, Hanging from near

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the top of the tower. There are still remains to be found,

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bodies to be identified. And still, so many

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questions to be answered. Questions the public inquiry

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says it will look at. The inquiry now says it will examine

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the cause and spread of the fire, the design and construction

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of the tower block, including safety regulations,

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and the response of the Fire Brigade to the blaze and central and local

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government's response after it. But it won't look at social housing

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policy, or the relationship between residents and the council,

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and the tenant Karim is still waiting

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for the remains of his uncle to be We thought that it's

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covering pretty much what we want it to cover,

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in terms of, you know, the cause and spread of the fire,

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the response with the local authorities and the residents,

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before and after. Do you think the inquiry

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could be broader? I think it should be

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more broader and be more detailed in terms

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of that, yeah, definitely. You would like it to

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look at social housing? But he still can't say he has

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confidence in the inquiry. I mean I have more confidence

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in a criminal investigation While Sir Martin Moore Bick, the

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head of the inquiry won't examine policy on social housing,

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the Government says ministers will. There is a listening exercise

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we have to do in Government about wider social housing policy

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and that is precisely what I will be doing over

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the coming weeks and months. As residents marched in silence last

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night to remember the tragedy, many still feel the inquiry

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doesn't go far enough. The Prime Minister said no stone

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would be unturned and this We need to make sure social

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housing is considered. This is what we felt was going

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to happen at the beginning of this consultation process and this

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is what has happened. The inquiry's had a difficult

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start with the judge He needs the confidence

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of the survivors, the bereaved, as a whitewash, and after today's

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announcement, he still doesn't have The Grenfell inquiry

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will hold its first hearing next month and hopes to have an initial

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report on the cause and spread One survivor said,

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"We just want the truth." The family of each person killed

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in the Manchester Arena terror attack in May

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is to receive a ?250,000. That includes ?70,000 which has

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already been given to the next of kin of the 22 people who died

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in the bombing. The money is from the We Love

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Manchester Emergency Fund which has so far raised ?18 million

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from public donations. A cyclist, accused of killing

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a woman by crashing into her in a London street,

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began shouting at her as she lay Charlie Alliston, who was 18

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at the time, was allegedly going 18mph before knocking down

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Kim Briggs in an east London street. Mrs Briggs suffered brain injuries

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and died in hospital days later. A desperate dig for survivors

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is under way in Sierra Leone's capital, after mudslides and floods

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claimed the lives Their homes on the outskirts

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of Freetown were engulfed after part of a mountain

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collapsed yesterday morning. As our correspondent

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Umaru Fofana reports, the authorities are planning mass

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burials because the On the day after, emergency services

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are still overstretched. Inside the central

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mortuary of the main They are lying on the floor in the

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open because there is no more space. Nearly 100 bodies were brought

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in on Tuesday morning, bringing the total number to nearly

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400, some of them limbless. The head of the mortuary

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says they are completely overstretched and that is not all,

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as they were trying to sort corpses out, more corpses are being brought

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in from different parts of the city. Even the rescue effort

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here is challenged. People are believed to still be

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alive underneath this spot. Even if they are, it'll be a miracle

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to find them breathing. Government and development

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partners have now set up a response centre,

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registering those left behind by the But the testimonies from people

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who have been badly hit by this disaster are in

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no short supply. TRANSLATION: I first saw the body

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of my sister and called on people to help me and

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we laid on the floor. Then I started hearing other

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people nearby crying. Monday's mudslide and flash flood

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have shaken this country. Even for a country that has known

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a bloody civil war and destabilising Ebola outbreak,

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this is unbearable. That report from Umaru

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Fofana our correspondent Ministers set out their plans

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for trade after Brexit. A top EU official

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calls it a fantasy. Sailing to the North Pole,

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it's never been done, but explorer Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News:

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It's all about the pink balls as England prepare for the first ever

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day-night Test Match. They play the West Indies at Edgbaston on Friday.

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Play will go on until 9pm in the evening.

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India's Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has led his nation

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in marking the 70th anniversary of the country's

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The division of colonial India into two states -

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India and Pakistan - in 1947 was followed by sectarian

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violence between Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs.

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The Partition led to the movement of around 12 million people in one

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of the largest migrations ever seen.

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Many Muslims fled east and west out of Hindu-dominated India.

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Similarly, millions of Hindus and Sikhs headed the other way.

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Reeta Chakrabarti is live at the golden temple in Amritsar.

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This is the holiest site of the Sikh religion,

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and it stands in the state of Punjab, which was terribly

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affected in the horrors of Partition 70 years ago.

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While India celebrates the anniversary of its independence,

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it has a lot to reflect on, in its past and in its present.

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It has a huge and young population and a growing economy. But there's

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also been a rise in religious violence, directed especially at

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Muslims. as our South Asia correspondent,

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Justin Rowlatt, This is a day of

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celebration for India. The Indian Prime Minister,

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Narendra Modi, talked of the country's successes -

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its growing economy, its efforts to tackle corruption

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and his vision for a secure, developed nation with equal

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opportunities for all. He made a point of speaking out

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against hate crimes. TRANSLATION: In the name

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of religions some people in this This is the land of Gandhi

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and violence in the name of faith He is talking about India's tiny

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minority of Hindu extremists, Modi is a Hindu Nationalist

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and tensions have been growing between the country's Hindu majority

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and its large Muslim minority. At the centre of the controversy

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is the slaughter of cows for meat. But the cow is a sacred animal

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in Hinduism regarded TRANSLATION: If I find someone

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killing my mother cow, I don't need the police

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or the authorities. He's so passionate about protecting

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the cow he and his supporters They've been told they've got no

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permission to stop vehicles, Stopping these lorries to see

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if they're carrying any cows. TRANSLATION: I have information

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that they are smuggling cows Cow vigilantes have been

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increasingly active across the country since Modi took

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power and there have been murders. Avoiding communal conflict

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is crucial for India. This new bridge is just

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one of scores of major The country's doing well -

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the fastest growing large There is a lot for India

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to celebrate today but the prime minister knows keeping this country

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growing depends on keeping This city Amritsar is right

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on the border with Pakistan, and as India celebrates its 70 years

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of Independence, it is just starting to address publicly its brutal

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and bloody beginning, when the country was effectively cut

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in two by Partition. As I've been finding out,

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it was a difficult start for India and for its first prime minister,

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Jawaharlal Nehru. One of a tiny number of transport

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links between neighbours. This train operates just twice

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a week, taking Indians over the border and bringing Pakistanis

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here to the outskirts of Amritsar. But it's a journey very few make,

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because of decades of mistrust between the two countries,

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which started with the Amritsar is becoming

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a centre of remembrance. This week, India is launching

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the first ever Partition museum here, recording the acts of violence

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and bravery of that time. People actually haven't spoken much

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about Partition in the past, The reason being that

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I think that generation when they came across,

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A, they were traumatised, and B, because they were so busy

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setting up their own lives, As the newly independent

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state of India was born, its first Prime Minister,

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Jawaharlal Nehru, was full At the stroke of the midnight hour,

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when the world sleeps, India His vision was of a democratic,

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secular state in which poverty and She lived through the horrors

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and only narrowly escaped with her life, hidden with a fruit

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truck and disguised in a burkha. Now 87, she's been recording her

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memories for her grandson Rishi and reflecting on modern India

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and Nehru's India. TRANSLATION: All the dreams

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that he showed us, they've We thought that after independence,

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all sorts of things would happen. We are still better off

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but there are many poor people. There is still so much

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poverty in India. There has been major economic growth

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in India by Nehru's vision of a more One thing endures, the political

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mistrust between India and Pakistan, a hostility that some born many

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years after Partition We might just worship different

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gods but that doesn't But he's never been to Pakistan,

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which is less than 20 miles away. The border between the two countries

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is real and psychological. Partition is both history

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and ever present. It is very difficult for Indians to

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go to Pakistan and vice versa. There are very few transport links and

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almost no-one makes the journey. We were broadcasting in Pakistan

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yesterday and made the crossing from Lahore, just 30 miles from here to

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Amritsar. Very few people made the acrossing with us, that's because of

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a long standing hostility between the states of India and Pakistan.

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Its peoples may feel friendship, but the states themselves, 70 years

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after Partition, they feel as far apart as ever. George, back to you.

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The British explorer Pen Hadow and his team have set

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off for the North Pole in two 50-foot yachts.

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His team say the melting of sea ice in the region is making the voyage

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Hadow left Nome in Alaska earlier today.

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He'll sail along the Baring Strait into the Central Arctic Ocean.

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After that his team will use satellites to plot the best

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They are attempting to reach the geographic North Pole

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and the expedition should take about six weeks.

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Our science correspondent, Rebecca Morelle, reports.

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Setting off into uncharted Arctic waters, a pair of yachts

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attempting a first - sailing all the way

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A crew of ten and the dog have just departed from Alaska,

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led by British explorer, Pen Hadow, they have a 3,500

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For the first time in human history, possibly for the first

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time in 130,000 years, it is now possible to sail

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It's rapid warming that's made this expedition even possible.

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This shows how sea ice has melted over time.

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The smaller the circle, the less ice that year.

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There's still data to come for 2017, but already it doesn't look good.

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Since the 1970s, it's estimated that half of the volume

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It means that once inaccessible waters are opening up

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and researchers say this could lead to significant changes, especially

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At Reading University, scientists say that instead

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of having to sail around the frozen pole, ships will have

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At the moment, we're seeing a few experimental

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In the future, as the ice continues to melt, the possibility of having

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more commercial ships travelling through the region

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Ships may be able to go right over the pole

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The team do not know how far north they'll get.

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But this expedition into the unknown may be the start

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Let's hear about climate change of a different kind.

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We could do with changing our weather that's for sure! A day of

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sunshine and showers across the north of the UK. We've had some of

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these clouds in the sky, moving across the skyline in Aberdeenshire,

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for example. Some of those have been pretty heavy as well. Not just

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across the north-east of Scotland. We've seen a number of showers

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working across into Northern Ireland as well, with thunder storms up over

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the Antrim hills. That's the lion's share of the activity today. We've

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all seen decent spells of sunshine, the best of this across England and

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Wales. Overnight tonight, the showers that are still with us will

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continue to fade away. We'll have clear skies and light winds. A

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combination that will lead to some fairly low temperatures for an

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August night, not in the towns and cities. Temperatures holding up into

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double figures. In rural Scotland, we could get down to five degrees by

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the end of the night. Looking at Wednesday's weather charts, it's an

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east-west split. A ridge of high pressure to start in the east. An

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area of low pressure that will bring wet and yndy weather -- windy

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weather into the west. That gets into Northern Ireland quickly.

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Scotland, England and Wales having a decent morning with some sunshine.

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But you can see the rain will continue to make inroads by the

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afternoon. Turning wet and windy across western Scotland later in the

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day. The winds picking up to give gale-force gusts around the coasts

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and coasts here. The wet weather continues in Northern Ireland.

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Things brighten up towards the end of the day. The rain is slow to

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reach the Eastern side of Wales. For the bulk of England, the rain

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arriving very late on, a decent day with fine spells of sunshine. A bit

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breezier than it was today. It's through the nighttime that rain band

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crosses Wales and England. Turning heavy for a time as well. It could

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be quite slow to clear Eastern areas of England through Thursday morning.

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Eventually it will. We get sunshine following in. In fact Thursday's

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weather looks similar to today really. We'll have further showers,

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particular across the north and west sm. Of those could be heavy with

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thunder. Warm in the sunshine with highs of 24. By Friday, we start to

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get a North Westerly wind. That brings plenty of showers across

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north-western areas of the UK. Some of those heavy with hail and

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thunder. Generally fewer showers towards the south and east through

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Friday and indeed into the weekend as well.

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That's how the weather's shaping up. Ministers set out their plans for

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trade after Brexit. They want a system as close as possible to what

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we have now. But a top EU official has called it a fantasy.

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It's goodbye from me, and on BBC One, we now join

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