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The Brexit Secretary says the UK

is making compromises but EU leaders

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aren't being flexible in return.

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As the Prime Minister

meets her European counterparts,

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a call for them to take

a different approach.

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We have been, actually, offering

some quite creative compromises.

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We haven't always got that back.

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Criticism from Ireland,

which demands a written guarantee

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there won't be a physical border

with Northern Ireland.

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It's 18 months since the referendum,

it's ten years since people

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who wanted a referendum

started agitating for one.

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Sometimes it doesn't seem

like they thought all this through.

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What chance now that the Northern

Ireland border plus the other key

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issues will be resolved in time

for trade talks to start next month?

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Also tonight:

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A number of people are feared dead

after a light aircraft

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and a helicopter collide in midair.

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In Zimbabwe, President Mugabe

is seen in public for the first time

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since the military takeover.

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19-year-old Gaia Pope -

police release the man

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they were questioning

about her disappearance

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ten days ago.

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And a dog so brave,

he's been given a medal.

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The story of Mali, who fought

through bullets, explosives

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and injuries to save British troops.

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Coming up on Sportsday on BBC News:

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Australia retain the women's Ashes,

as England slip to a six-wicket

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defeat in the first Twenty20 match

of the series in Sydney.

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Good evening and welcome

to the BBC News at Six.

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The Brexit Secretary, David Davis,

says the UK has made compromises

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in the Brexit negotiations

and hasn't seen the same

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level of compromise back.

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He's urged the other EU countries

to be more flexible.

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But at a summit of EU Leaders

in Sweden, the President of the EU

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Council, Donald Tusk,

has insisted the UK has much more

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work to do if talks on trade

are to start next month.

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And the Irish Prime Minister,

Leo Varadkar, says without

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a guarantee of no physical border

with Northern Ireland,

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discussions on trade cannot begin.

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Our Political Editor Laura

Kuenssberg reports from Berlin.

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Here in Berlin, where the decisions

matter so much, there are in Dublin,

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this morning, and almost everywhere,

the government mission to persuade

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the rest of the EU to please move

on. The Prime Minister in Sweden had

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met there is more to do.

We are

agreed that progress has been made

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but there is more to be done. We

should move forward together towards

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the point where sufficient progress

can be declared.

But someone has to

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barge to get there. In the European

capital that speaks with the loudest

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void, the view is that Britain must

shift. The Brexit secretary does not

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think it is down to him.

We have

made quite a lot of compromises. One

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citizens' rights, we have made all

the running. We have not always got

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that back.

You have come to the

powerhouse of the European Union

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without an offer on what pretty much

everybody on the other side agrees

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is the biggest problem. EU

politician after EU politician has

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been crystal clear that they are not

going to move on in the way that you

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want to until the UK is willing to

make a promise, not to give a fig

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but to give a promise that you are

prepared to write a big cheque. --

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not to give a figure.

What is also

clear is that many of them do want

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to move on. They see it is very

important to them. Countries like

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Denmark, Holland, Italy and Spain,

countries like Poland can see the

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benefits in the future deal that we

are talking about, the deep and

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special relationship Prime Minister

refers to, a strong trading and

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security relationship. They all have

things to benefit from that. This is

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not a one-way street, not something

for nothing. This benefits

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everybody.

So who is holding out?

Germany and France holding things

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up?

To be clear, Germany and France,

the open secret of Europe, are the

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most powerful players on the

European continent, of course. And

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so what they believe is very

influential, sometimes decisively

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so. But it's the whole of Europe

decision, 27 countries.

Why not add

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me that at some point in the next

ten days, two weeks, you are going

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to have to say that the UK will put

a more generous financial offer on

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the table?

Nothing comes for nothing

in this world.

With David Davis

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playing bad cop in Germany, he left

Theresa May looking like an awkward

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Chief Constable in Sweden. Ireland,

clearly not satisfied over the issue

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of the cash or the border after

Brexit.

18 months since the

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referendum, ten years since people

started agitating for a referendum.

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Sometimes it does not seem they

thought all of this through.

Welcome

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to this press conference.

For now,

the EU is publicly and resolutely

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sticking together, demanding more

progress, with just a couple of

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weeks to make it, and suggesting

that Mr Davies' idea that they

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should come eyes was a joke.

I made

it very clear to the Prime Minister,

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Theresa May, that this progress

needs to happen at the beginning of

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December at the latest. I appreciate

David Davis' English sense of

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humour.

He probably does not like

his ideas being called a joke but he

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has to compete with Tory demands at

home, too. Ministers might have to

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back down over their hope of putting

the date of Brexit into law.

It is a

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good idea, because it is stating

something which is clear government

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policy, that we will leave on the

29th of March, 2019. How it is done

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and what form it is will be debated

in the house.

So you might have to

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budge?

No.

It sounds rather like it.

No. The whole bill will be debated

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through the house, the whole of it,

and parts of it will change as we go

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through. We will see where we go.

Which is harder, dealing with the

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Tory party or 27 other countries?

You only described about two thirds

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of my job. Look, this is the most

important negotiation and transition

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in our modern history, in peace

time, anyway. Of course it is

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difficult. People have passionate

views.

And which is harder?

I don't

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know the answer to that, it varies

day by day.

At home and away, this

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is no longer about pressing the

flesh, as the deadline looms. The

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talks are getting tougher. The

journey to the next phase of Brexit,

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a charm offensive haps a little

short on charm. -- perhaps short on

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charm.

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Our Europe Correspondent Adam

Fleming is in Brussels.

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This is first and foremost

a negotiation, but behind the tough

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talk and taking of positions,

what's your assessment

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of whether meaningful progress

is being made towards those

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potential trade talks next month?

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Well, you listen to Donald Tusk,

President of the European Council,

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who will chair the summit of EU

leaders in Brussels in December, and

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his answer is a little bit yes but

quite a lot know. He says on the one

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hand that the EU is prepared to move

to trade talks before Christmas.

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Behind-the-scenes, they have started

to prepare and brainstorm for those

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trade talks, the second phase, about

the future and a transition deal,

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the stuff the UK Government really

wants. But on the other hand he says

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he wants a lot more detail from the

UK on the issues they are discussing

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in this first phase, calculating a

way of working out the UK's

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financial obligations to the EU,

which they want detail of in writing

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from written. How does Britain hoped

to avoid that physical border on the

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island of Ireland. They want those

details in writing by the first week

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of December. It sounds like a

deadline, doesn't it?

Thank you.

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A number of people are feared dead

following a midair collision

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between a light aircraft

and a helicopter.

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Emergency services are attending

the scene near the village

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of Waddesdon in Buckinghamshire.

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Ben Ando reports.

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Just visible through the trees,

the unmistakable outline

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of a light aircraft's tail -

it's completely detached

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from the plane.

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Nearby, a wing.

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From their position,

investigators should be able to tell

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whether they came off in the midair

collision or in the impact

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with the ground.

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Scattered around, smaller items

of wreckage, and elsewhere,

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in the small clearing,

the blackened marks of what appeared

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to be the burned-out

remains of the helicopter.

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The crash happened

just after midday.

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The aircraft involved

in the crash had both taken off

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from Wycombe Air Park,

about 20 miles away.

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They appear to have collided

in the skies above Waddesdon Manor

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in Buckinghamshire, which is owned

by the National Trust.

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As darkness fell, the job

of identifying the pilots and any

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passengers is continuing,

while air accident investigators

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are preparing to begin their work

to establish what caused

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this tragic accident.

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The BBC thinks it knows the

registrations of the aircraft

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involved but we are not broadcasting

them until next of kin have been

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informed. In terms of exactly how

this happened, air accident

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investigators will be looking at

possible mechanical failure, or

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pilot error. We know that the skies

were bright and clear at around

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midday. Waddesdon Manor is said to

be spectacular from the air, but

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pilots are taught almost in their

first lesson that the ideas are

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their most important instrument and

they should use them for keeping an

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eye on out to check they are not

close to any other aircraft.

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The Zimbabwean leader

Robert Mugabe has been seen

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in public for the first time

since the military

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takeover on Wednesday.

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He's reportedly been under house

arrest but today he attended

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a university graduation ceremony

in the capital, Harare.

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Earlier, the military said talks

with Mr Mugabe were continuing

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and there had been significant

progress in the operation

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targeting what it called

the criminals surrounding him.

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Shingai Nyoka reports from Zimbabwe.

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The report contains flash

photography.

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President Mugabe shuffled down

the red carpet towards his first

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public engagement in over a week.

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The 93-year-old leader remains

defiant, despite facing the biggest

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challenge to his decades-long rule.

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Many hadn't expected him

to show up to a relatively

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insignificant engagement.

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By virtue of the authority vested

in me, I declare this congregation

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of the university duly constituted

as a graduation ceremony.

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Nothing on the surface suggests

that this is a crisis,

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and there is no heightened

military presence here.

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And President Mugabe,

in his first public appearance,

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is looking relaxed.

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But then again, this

is no ordinary takeover.

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Following guns and explosions

on Tuesday night, many thought

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it was the end for the long-time

leader, but the violence

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has been replaced by

an almost surreal normal.

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Zimbabweans are new to this

and don't know how to react.

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There are negotiations over

whether he should step down,

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but President Mugabe doesn't seem

to be losing any sleep.

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There is no deal yet,

no exit package that

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President Mugabe and the military

could agree on.

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Sources suggest that he wants

to continue as a figurehead

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until the party's congress in

December.

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The catalyst of this

crisis, Grace Mugabe,

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has not been seen for days.

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Many suggest that she's

confined to their private

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residence in the capital.

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It's her ambitions to take over

as Vice President that set off these

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events and led to the sacking

of the Vice President

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Emmerson Mnangagwa.

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The Army is there to

protect the constitution

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and the republic and everything.

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We, the war veterans,

are there to change things.

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Veterans of Zimbabwe's liberation

war say a mass rally will be held

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on Saturday to pressure

the leader to go.

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The tables that Mugabe turned

on so many of his wartime comrades

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are now being turned against him.

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The party have already put in motion

a series of meetings

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to consider his expulsion.

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It's been suggested

that the military offered

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to sweeten the deal -

"leave now and face no retribution".

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It's not clear how long he will hold

out before the curtain

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closes on his career.

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Shingai Nyoka, BBC News, Harare.

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Police in Dorset are questioning

a man about the disappearance

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of 19-year-old Gaia Pope,

who was last seen in

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Swanage ten days ago.

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The 49-year-old was arrested

yesterday on suspicion of murder.

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The man has now been released.

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Jon Donnison reports.

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The beautiful Dorset coast -

now the focus of an ugly search.

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More than 50 officers

from the police, Fire Service

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and coastguard combing the area

above and below the cliffs,

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just outside Swanage.

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But it's ten days since

Gaia Pope was last seen.

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The search moved to this

clifftop area after police

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found women's clothes -

similar, they say, to what Gaia

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was wearing when she was last seen.

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It was shortly after that discovery

that officers arrested

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49-year-old Paul Elsey.

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This evening, he's been released

under investigation.

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Paul Elsey lives in one of these

flats in this complex

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of Morrison Road in Swanage.

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His 71-year-old mother

and 19-year-old nephew were arrested

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earlier this week but have also

been released

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while the investigation continues.

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This CCTV footage shows Gaia running

up Morrison Road

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just before she disappeared.

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Earlier, she'd bought an ice cream

at a petrol station outside Swanage.

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And her family want

the search to intensify.

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Whatever you're doing,

if you're planning on being

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in this area over the weekend,

please do get in touch

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via the Find Gaia Facebook group,

come and pick up some flyers,

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and get out there looking for her.

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A week and a half on,

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police now at least

have a focus for that search.

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But after a day scouring these

hills, no further breakthrough.

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Jon Donnison, BBC News, Swanage.

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BBC News has learned that

thousands of people who claim

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the main sickness benefit,

employment and support allowance,

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have had their benefits wrongly

calculated and have not been paid

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the full amount

they are entitled to.

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It's understood the Department

for Work and Pensions owes up

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to £500 million in back payments.

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Ministers say they are aware

of the problem and have already

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started making the repayments.

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Our social affairs correspondent

Michael Buchanan has the story.

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In many of Britain's

former mining communities,

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welfare has replaced work.

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Horden in County Durham has

high levels of benefit dependency,

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much of it triggered by ill health.

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Old manufacturing jobs

maim the body -

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lack of opportunities maim the mind.

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Peter Cartwright has any

number of health problems,

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from osteoarthritis to depression.

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He used to get incapacity benefit

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but is now on employment

and support allowance.

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He's astonished the Government

have been underpaying the benefit.

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It's not as if you can go

and get loads of luxuries

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when you're on this benefit.

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You have enough to get through,

and if people are getting

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underpaid for it, I mean,

that means they're not

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getting through, they're having

to make the choice

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of either food or heating.

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A disproportionately high number

of people here get ESA,

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and some are now in for a windfall

after an extraordinary error.

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Between 2012 and 2015,

the Government miscalculated.

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They underpaid the benefits

due to people moving off

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incapacity benefit and onto ESA.

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We've been told officials

estimate that claimants

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are owed £500 million.

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The error could affect

around 75,000 people.

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Based on those figures,

the average repayment

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will be close to £7,000 per person.

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There will be people

who will be angry about it,

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but I think a lot of people

will just see it as a bit

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of a windfall and be grateful

that they're getting that.

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I think they would just see

it as a welcome break

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from the austerity that we go

through on a daily basis.

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The benefits system is absolutely

crucial in communities like this.

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It is, in many ways,

a backbone of the local economy.

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And in recent years it has

become harder to get a benefit

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and harder to live on benefits.

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And so the least that people expect

is that when they do qualify,

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the Government pays them

everything they're actually due.

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Backwards and forwards...

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Employment support allowance,

which tests fitness for work,

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is paid to about 2.5 million people.

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Brought into cut the benefits bill,

it hasn't - but has created

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stress for many claimants.

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The Labour MP Frank Field has

charted the benefit's many problems.

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This latest failure, he says,

is of historic proportions.

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I am gobsmacked at the size and

the nature and the extent of people

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that are being wrongly impoverished.

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Horden's Welfare Park

affectionately commemorates

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the village's old mining heritage.

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But the present matters more

than the past,

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and for many that means

adequate benefit payments.

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Ministerial promises

to correct this error,

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to repay everyone in full,

must be kept.

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Michael Buchanan, BBC

News, County Durham.

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The time is nearly 20 past six.

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Our top story this evening.

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As Theresa May meets

the other EU leaders,

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the Brexit Secretary insists

the UK is making compromises.

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And still to come...

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# Who will buy this wonderful

morning? #

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The cast of EastEnders break

into song for Children in Need.

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Coming up on Sportsday on BBC News,

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England head coach Eddie Jones

turns up the heat on his Australian

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counterpart, Michael Cheika,

as the two sides meet in tomorrow's

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Autumn International at Twickenham.

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A military dog who helped save the

lives of British and Afghan troops

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in Afghanistan is to receive

the animal equivalent

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of the Victoria Cross -

the Dickin Medal.

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Mali was seriously wounded in 2012

when he entered a building in Kabul

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under fire to sniff out

explosives and insurgents.

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Despite his injuries,

he carried on,

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helping to secure

the enemy stronghold.

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His new handler,

Corporal Daniel Hatley,

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says his dog

is exceptionally brave.

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Chi Chi Izundu reports.

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It's the animal equivalent

of the Victoria Cross,

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and this year's Dickin Medal

is being awarded to Mali,

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the eight-year-old Belgian Malinois.

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In 2012, he was helping

British troops in Afghanistan

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when they came under attack.

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In searching for insurgents,

Mali came under direct fire.

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His job was to sniff out explosives,

and he was even hoisted up outside

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the building several times

to help find a safe exit.

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His handler during the operation

is anonymous for security reasons.

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From operations that we'd been

on previously, he had shown his...

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he'd really sort of shown his mettle

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and built a reputation

amongst all the guys.

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By the time we'd launched

onto this operation,

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we really felt that we had

a guardian angel amongst us.

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The mission lasted seven and

a half hours,

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and Mali's contribution

to its success is undeniable.

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The amount of noise, the dust,

the smoke, you know,

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it must have overloaded his senses.

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He received blast injuries

from two grenades that were

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thrown down the stairs at him,

but again,

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he still carried on after that.

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The military uses around 500 dogs

in a variety of roles

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from sniffing out explosives

to hunting down insurgents.

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As for that medal, his current

handler says Mali thought

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it was an edible treat at first.

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But having made a full recovery,

Mali is now passing on his skills

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at the Canine Training Squadron,

which teaches dogs

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and their handlers about

their roles in the military.

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Now, Mali has had quite the day

today, with lots of press, showing

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off his medal, which will be

presented to him later in the

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ceremony, which is due to start at

seven. It will not be this specific

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one, and it will go to is home in

Leicester, where it will sit on

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display. It is quite special, it

comes on the 100th birthday of the

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PDSA pet charity, which presents the

medal to dogs like Mali. He will get

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a miniature replica to sit on his

collar, which he will get to proudly

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display when he goes back to

training, which is training other

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animals to be as brave as him.

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More than a million credit-card

users who are struggling

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to repay their debts have

had their credit limit

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increased in the last year

without being asked,

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according to the charity

Citizens Advice.

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It's calling on the Chancellor

to ban unsolicited increases

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in the Budget next week.

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Simon Gompertz has more.

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We're paying by credit card more,

which means borrowing more.

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And it's partly

because of credit limits

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going up without us asking.

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Plenty of these

Manchester shoppers say

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it's happened to them.

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By at least another

couple of thousand.

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And it's quite dangerous,

I just had the limit raised

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without any reference

to me whatsoever.

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It's too tempting to spend

the money, and then you pay

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back stupid money each month.

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So I've lowered the limit now.

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I think we did spend

the money, though, didn't we?

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Yeah, well, we did,

that's the problem.

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Citizens Advice estimate of 6

million people who have had credit

0:23:100:23:14

limits put up in the last

without their consent

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includes 1.4 million

who are struggling financially.

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On average, the limit's

gone up by nearly £1500.

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But for one in ten,

it is by £3000 or more.

0:23:230:23:26

There is change on the way.

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Under a new voluntary code,

you will be able to opt

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out of the increases.

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And if interest or charges swallow

up most of your repayments

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for more than a year,

you won't get them anyway.

0:23:340:23:38

The worry is that that won't be

enough to stop some people racking

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up too much debt, too quickly.

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Any voluntary agreement is a step

in the right direction.

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But we see such damage caused

by credit card debt,

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particularly to those who can

least afford to pay,

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that we'd like to see

the Chancellor bring in an outright

0:23:510:23:54

ban on unsolicited credit

card limit increases.

0:23:540:23:57

Banks say they are committed

to responsible lending -

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to live up to that they will need to

make sure higher credit limits

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don't lead people into more

expensive debt.

0:24:020:24:04

Simon Gompertz, BBC News.

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Cricket, and Australia have

retained the women's Ashes.

0:24:070:24:10

They beat England

by six wickets in

0:24:100:24:12

the first Twenty20 match in Sydney.

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Even if England win the final two

matches, they can only draw

0:24:150:24:18

the series, meaning

the hosts retain the trophy.

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And finally, Pudsey's back -

in case you hadn't noticed.

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He'll be joined tonight by stars

from across the BBC

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for tonight's

Children in Need appeal.

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Celebrities will be joining members

of the public to raise money

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for the 2,400 projects

the charity supports across the UK.

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They'll be hoping to beat last

year's record of £60 million.

0:24:380:24:41

Our entertainment correspondent

Lizo Mzimba is outside

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the BBC's Elstree Studios.

0:24:430:24:51

I am actually inside the studio,

this is where it is all going to be

0:24:510:24:55

happening in just over an hour's

time, tonight's fundraising

0:24:550:24:59

spectacular. All week, people across

the UK have been raising money,

0:24:590:25:03

tonight it will be the turn of some

of the nation's favourite

0:25:030:25:07

celebrities to show how they are

supporting Children in Need.

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# Who will buy... #

0:25:120:25:13

The West End comes to the East End.

0:25:130:25:15

# Who will buy this

wonderful morning? #

0:25:150:25:17

Walford's finest will be

performing songs from Oliver

0:25:170:25:18

and other classic musicals.

0:25:180:25:21

# And put it in a box for me? #

0:25:210:25:24

Who is the celebrity Weakest Link?

0:25:240:25:27

Anne Robinson will help viewers

find out

0:25:270:25:30

as she hosts a special edition

of the famous quiz show.

0:25:300:25:34

I thought you'd advertised yourself

as a genius millionaire playboy.

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Yeah, in the past, yes.

0:25:370:25:40

A group of charity workers

get a once-in-a-lifetime offer -

0:25:400:25:45

to work with Poldark star

Aidan Turner.

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While there'll be a live

performance of the official

0:25:490:25:53

Children in Need single

from Katie Melua - Fields Of Gold,

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chosen because it was one of

Sir Terry Wogan's favourite songs.

0:25:560:26:00

# Among the fields of barley... #

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It's not just celebrities -

people across the country

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have also been doing their bit

to help raise cash.

0:26:080:26:12

In Colchester, cheered on by Pudsey,

0:26:120:26:18

this team was trying to set

a pump-trolley world record.

0:26:180:26:21

It was a step challenge

for this group from the Midlands.

0:26:210:26:26

And in Wakefield,

0:26:260:26:27

schoolteachers volunteered

to be doused with ice-cold water.

0:26:270:26:33

As always,

the millions raised tonight

0:26:330:26:36

will go to helping children

and young people across the country.

0:26:360:26:39

Lizo Mzimba, BBC News.

0:26:390:26:47

Good for them, why can't I made

Poldark, that is what I want to

0:26:470:26:50

know!

I will fight you for it!

0:26:500:26:56

I would not like to have been and

collecting for charity this morning,

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it was cold, minus four degrees, but

lifting the frost to some sunshine,

0:27:020:27:06

a beautiful afternoon across England

and Wales, but some sharp showers,

0:27:060:27:11

some heavy, with thunder across much

of Scotland. A beautiful picture,

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but a miserable affair, widespread

showers accompanied by 50 mph winds.

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Those showers will continue through

the evening, in actual fact, and

0:27:220:27:25

then further south some clearer

skies to the south-east,

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temperatures falling away, but then

more cloud nudges into the

0:27:290:27:33

south-west, not as cold tomorrow as

of this morning, and that is because

0:27:330:27:37

we will see some nuisance cloud and

the light patchy rain moving through

0:27:370:27:42

Wales, the south-west, masking the

sunshine into the afternoon across

0:27:420:27:46

southern England. It could be a

pretty drab day, and that could make

0:27:460:27:49

it feel much colder, nine or 10

degrees, but with a spot of rain not

0:27:490:27:55

very pleasant, really. Northern

England, but Jock Northern Ireland

0:27:550:27:59

and Scotland, a better day, more in

the way of sunshine. A blustery

0:27:590:28:04

wind, excuse me, into the Northern

Isles and the far north of Scotland.

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That is where we are going to save

those to Bridge is falling away as

0:28:080:28:11

well through the night time period,

so clear skies in Scotland and much

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of the eastern half of the country

generally, quite a chilly nights to

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come. At the same time, we keep the

cloud to the south-west, so it looks

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like a slightly milder start to

Sunday, but a cold start on Sunday

0:28:250:28:30

morning, frost is likely, that is

where the best of the sunshine will

0:28:300:28:34

be on Monday, central and eastern

areas will be cold and sunny, in the

0:28:340:28:38

far south-west we keep the cloud,

spots of rain.

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