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Tonight at Six: The cost of living

goes up as inflation jumps

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to its highest for nearly six years.

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With Christmas round the corner -

and food prices rising -

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there'll be a squeeze

on household budgets.

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People are finding it very

difficult to make ends meet.

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I think they should bring the prices

down for food, but they're not.

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Every time you go, it's going up

and up and up all the time.

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We'll be asking what this

means for interest rates.

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Also tonight:

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The suspected arson attack

in Manchester that left

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three children dead -

their mother and another child

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are fighting for their lives

in hospital.

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Warnings of icy conditions after

the coldest night of the winter -

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hundreds of schools are still shut.

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The gift of an organ

that could save a life -

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now the government wants to persuade

more people to become donors.

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It's 40 years since Star Wars

first hit the screens -

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we're on the red carpet

for the latest sequel.

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And coming up in Sportsday on BBC

News, former heavyweight boxing

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world champion Tyson Fury is free

to resume his career

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after accepting a doping violation.

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Good evening and welcome

to the BBC News at Six.

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Rising food costs, bigger

electricity bills and higher air

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fares have all helped push inflation

to its highest level

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for almost six years.

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The Consumer Prices Index -

the measure the government uses -

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hit 3.1% last month.

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With the latest data showing that

wages are growing at a slower pace,

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it means a squeeze on household

budgets, just when those Christmas

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shopping bills are coming in.

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Here's our Economics

Correspondent, Andy Verity.

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At this baker on the outskirts of

Barnsley, it's not just the bread

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rolls on the rise. Ingredients like

butter and flour have shot up in the

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last year and a half so it's hard to

do everything it can to make sure

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its costs are covered.

One of the

things we have done with our

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suppliers, we have decided to take a

radical approach which is pay all of

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our suppliers early and demand

better terms from them because we

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are paying them early and that's

helped mitigate some of the costs.

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If you are looking to warm yourself

up in the cold weather, it's not

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getting any cheaper. The price of

food was up 4.4% in the year to

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November. Hot drinks up 5.6% and

electricity costs 11.4% more than it

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did last year. On high streets like

this one in Glasgow, your wages

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won't buy as much as they did last

year. That renewed squeeze on living

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standards is starting to pinch.

Very

difficult to make ends meet,

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especially coming up to Christmas.

Everything is going up. Money,

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electricity, gas, everything is

going up so we need someone to do

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something about it.

If you are

getting a few things, by the time

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you get to the cash desk you say how

did it come to that, you know.

The

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pressure on prices comes partly from

the weakness of the pound since the

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Brexit vote which means it takes

more pounds to buy the same imported

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goods, and partly from a recent

surge in the price of oil. The

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interest rate setters at the Bank of

England know it is above target but

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that doesn't mean there will be an

interest rate rise any time soon.

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The confident prediction is that

inflation will come down next year

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and in the city they are betting the

next interest rate rise won't come

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until the summer of next year.

The

Bank of England is navigating a

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pretty tricky course as it's trying

to work out how the economy will

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fare through the Brexit process so

it's being ultra-cautious and for

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that reason it is unlikely they will

make another rate move so soon after

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the November on so nothing until

further into 2018 and probably one

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rate rise in 2018, and one in 2019.

The hope is down the line the

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inflationary effect of higher oil

prices will fade. Inflation is now

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hitting its peak. If your wages by

less than they did last Christmas,

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that is no more than a crumb of

comfort.

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With me now is our Economics

Editor, Kamal Ahmed.

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We heard the shopper saying prices

keep going up, have we reached a

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peak?

The Bank of England certainly

believes next year the rate of

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growth in prices will start to come

down. Why do they say that? The

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currency effect, the falling value

of the pound since the referendum

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pushes through the economy quite

quickly so by next year the effects

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of that on prices will start

dissipating. Also as Andy spoke

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about, there are some upward

pressures on inflation - the oil

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price, there's a lot of cold weather

around at the moment so demand is

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going up, and also global growth. We

are in an era now in Europe, Asia

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and America when growth is pretty

quick and that means demand goes up

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and that can push up inflation. But

the Bank of England certainly

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believes as the currency effect

comes out of the economy, that means

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the growth rate of inflation will

come down and actually it does

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suggest interest rate rises are

still a long way off.

Thank you.

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Police say a mother and her

three-year-old girl are fighting

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for their lives in hospital

following a suspected arson attack

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on a home in Worsley, Manchester,

in which three children died.

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Three people remain in custody,

held on suspicion of murder.

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Danny Savage is outside

Swinton Police Station.

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Danny.

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In the last hour police have given

an update on this ongoing murder

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investigation. They say some of

those arrested over the last 24

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hours have been released but others

remain in custody. I think the

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saddest fact of the day if you like

is the mother of the three children

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who died, herself seriously ill in

hospital, still has no idea her son

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and two daughters are dead.

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A home police believe was

deliberately set alight early

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yesterday morning.

We have collected

CCTV from the area and now believe

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this to be a targeted attack on this

house. We have a full team of

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detectives and specially trained

officers working on this case.

The

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victims were 14-year-old Demi

Pearson who died at the scene, her

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eight-year-old brother Brandon and

seven-year-old sister Lacie died

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later in hospital. The head of their

school says it was a senseless loss

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of precious life. Their 35-year-old

mother Michelle Pearson still

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doesn't know her children are dead.

A fourth sibling, three-year-old

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Lia, is still critical. Back at the

scene a family friend told me how

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difficult it is for people living

here. What were they like?

Nice,

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they were all good people. I think

it's a shock, it will affect the

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community for a long time. I've

cried loads of times when I think

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about it or drive past in the car.

Last night a man and woman were

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filmed being arrested, three people

remain in custody on suspicion of

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murder. Police officers are at work

at other addresses as well as at the

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house where the Pearson is lived.

It's emerged extra security had been

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fitted to the family home including

a special letterbox guard after

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previous incidents, so painstaking

work is under way to try to

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establish how the fire was started.

Details on trouble here before

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yesterday are sketchy though, police

won't comment on previous contact

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with the family because those events

will be looked at by the Independent

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Police Complaints Commission. Danny

Savage, BBC News, Walkden in

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Manchester.

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Last night was the coldest

this winter and if you live

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in Shropshire you'll have known

all about it - it was down

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to minus 13 Celsius in one place.

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The freeze has led to fresh

disruption for travellers

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and hundreds of schools are closed

for a second day running.

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From Shawbury in Shropshire,

Sima Kotecha sent this report.

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A bed of snow with freezing

conditions. Across parts of Midlands

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it's not been easy - icy roads,

school closures, but for the

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children another day off school.

We

have been sledging, building a

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snowmans.

In Shropshire more than

200 schools were closed and in

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Gloucestershire and Herefordshire

almost 100 remain closed.

It is

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difficult trying to find things for

them to do and keep them occupied.

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When you have childcare issues and

you are working full-time, obviously

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it would be disruptive to you

because the schools are closing on a

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day-to-day basis and you're not

knowing until the last minute.

It is

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bitterly cold here, the temperature

is around minus four Celsius and

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there's no sign of this snow melting

any time soon. As night falls, the

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temperatures are expected to plunge

even further. In the West Midlands

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it was a similar story, more schools

closed and open. Some councils have

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been criticised for advising them

not to reopen even though many roads

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have been cleared.

The initial

advice last Friday was for all

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schools to close, we have changed

that advice to save the decision

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should be made locally depending on

whether you can get school transport

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to the school and whether it is safe

to do so in consideration of the

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roads and other conditions.

Yes or

no answer, do you think it's a

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necessity to close all schools?

It's

not a necessity to close all

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schools, some will need to close.

More than 200 homes in the region

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were without power this morning.

Tomorrow will present its own

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challenges. With rain coming in from

the west, some of the snow will turn

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to ice making pathways even more

slippery.

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The Met Office has issued a yellow

warning for ice from today until 11

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o'clock tomorrow morning with the

worst affected areas expected to be

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in Scotland and the north of

England. In Shropshire the

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conditions seem to be improving,

more roads have cleared today, the

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grifters have been out and more

schools are scheduled to reopen

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tomorrow. -- the gritters.

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We know organ transplants can

save lives and we know

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that there aren't enough organ

donors out there.

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The government wants to change that

by re-writing the rules so that

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we'll all be considered as potential

donors unless we opt out -

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it's called 'presumed consent'.

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The number of donors

is rising but not fast

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enough to meet the need.

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Ten years ago there were

just under 800 donors.

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This year that figure has

risen to over 1,400.

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But there are still 6,500

people currently waiting

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for a transplant in the UK.

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Our health correspondent

Dominic Hughes has met one patient

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who knows just how vital an increase

in donors is.

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Just hanging the tubes up here.

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Keeping going, but going nowhere.

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Very honestly, I don't

have a life, that is what I do

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at the moment, 24-hours a day.

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This is how Odette stays alive

while she waits for a pancreas

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and kidney transplant.

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Every night, hooked up

to a dialysis machine.

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Nearly two litres of fluid

repeatedly pumped in

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and out of her body.

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There's days that it actually feels

as if I've swallowed

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a demon and obviously,

on those days, I just can't sleep,

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I double over sometimes in pain.

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Good boy.

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Odette is marking time.

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On four occasions she's been called

to hospital for a transplant,

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each time the organ wasn't suitable.

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The emptiness is just very,

very, very, very big.

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It's just like...

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There's nothing that anybody can do

about it, I understand that.

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And there is nobody

to blame, basically.

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So it's just like - what do you do?

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She's one of 6,500 people

waiting for a transplant

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of one kind of another,

around 450 of them die each year.

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Transplant teams know

they need more organs,

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so the Government in England wants

to assume we are all

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willing to donate.

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An approach already adopted

in Wales two years ago,

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with Scotland also planning

to follow suit.

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But already the way teams identify

donors and how they approach

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grieving families has been

transformed, that's seen

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the number of operations

increase by more than 50%.

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The story of transplants in the UK

over the past decade has

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been one of success -

more people are having operations

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and more people are willing

to donate their organs.

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But there are those who worry that

if we move to a system

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of presumed consent,

well, that could actually do

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more harm than good.

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It's a quick-fix for politicians.

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You pass a law, automatically

everyone is presumed to be a donor

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and you've got more organs,

but in real-life it

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doesn't happen that way.

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A lot of people who would

potentially become organ donors

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object to it so strongly

that they join the opt-out register.

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So far in Wales more

than 200,000 people,

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6% of the population,

have chosen to opt out

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of organ donation.

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But after their own death, a donor

offers a stranger a new life.

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And just over a fortnight ago,

in Manchester, that

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stranger was Odette.

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After being so sick for such a long

time and to wake up and you're OK

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and that's all gone,

it's just like

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magically disappeared.

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I can see it in you,

from the last time we spoke,

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you seem very different in yourself?

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I feel different, I feel

totally different.

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Extremely grateful.

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Actually feeling as if you're alive.

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It's just overwhelming.

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Odette de Sa ending that

report by Dominic Hughes.

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Time is quarter past six.

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Our top story this evening:

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Rising food prices and higher air

fares help push inflation up

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to its highest level for six years.

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And coming up: the new Star Wars

film, the Last Jedi -

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we're at the star-studded Premier

tonight in London.

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Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News:

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Who's responsible for 'Milkgate'?

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The managers of Manchester United

and Manchester City have their says

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on the melee after last

Sunday's Premier League derby match.

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Yesterday, we brought you some

shocking stories about the kind

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of behaviour young women and some

men have to put up with at work.

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It came from a survey

commissioned by the BBC,

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one of the largest ever conducted

on sexual harassment.

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Today we're looking

at the experiences of older

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women, those over 55.

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It turns out they're half as likely

to report inappropriate

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behaviour as younger women.

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In her second report,

Lucy Manning has been

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to Whitley Bay, in Northumbria,

where she's been hearing

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from an older generation.

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# Waking into the light #.

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Into the light - the groping,

the harassment and the assaults

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faced by women at work.

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# Waking into the light #.

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In Whitley Bay they sing,

but the mostly retired choir members

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are also starting to talk -

some for the first time.

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He started to put his hand

on my knee and then it went

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further and further up.

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Every time I went into work,

when he was there,

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I was terrified to go in.

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Did I misunderstand?

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But I knew he'd touched my bottom

and then he'd stroke

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the side of my breast.

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He thought he had nothing better

to do than to slap me hard

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on the bottom, and it stung.

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My husband doesn't even know.

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Mine didn't, no.

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No.

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The BBC's poll on sexual harassment

reveals the older generation

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are only half as likely to have

reported harassment

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as younger people.

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Just 16% of those now aged 55

or over have reported an incident,

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compared to 30% of those aged 18-34.

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Can you put your hands up

if you didn't report to your boss

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or to someone senior the sexual

harassment or the sexual assault

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that happened to you?

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My boss was actually in the room.

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Can I just say, it was my boss.

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So why didn't you report it?

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Because I thought

I might lose my job.

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I loved my job.

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Yeah, same with me.

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I could have lost my job.

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This was the man I worked for, I had

to stay on the right side of him.

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But nobody would have

believed me either.

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There was no idea about reporting

it and there was no

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idea about taking it

into a formal complaints procedure.

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Older people are now more likely

to reconsider behaviour

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they witnessed in their careers.

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More than 40% of over 55s would now

describe incidents they saw

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as sexual harassment.

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We didn't have the vocabulary.

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I would now be saying -

hang on a minute, I think that's

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some kind of assault.

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But I would never have said it

20 years ago, never,

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because I didn't think it was.

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No.

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I thought it was just the way

you were if you were a woman.

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We're of a generation where women

were only just beginning to be

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encouraged to speak out.

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Overall, the poll found most people

were optimistic recent events

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will lead to change.

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Nearly 70% think the revelations

will cause sustained

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improvements in behaviour.

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What do you think about all these

stories about sexual harassment,

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sexual assault in the workplace that

have come out now?

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There are some brave women who have

started the ball rolling.

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It will always continue.

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Men will always feel that

they're superior to women.

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And you don't think that the massive

publicity that we've had recently

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will in anyway change that?

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I don't think so.

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Oh, I think it will.

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I think it's hopeful.

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It's been changing for a while now.

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It will never stop.

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They can't put the lid

back on the box now.

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I'm sure it's educating men.

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I was just going to say

that, Annie, absolutely.

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Do you think it's something that

all women of your generation had

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to put up with, when you speak

to friends and relatives?

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Oh, yeah.

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When you talk to just

about everybody.

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There were lots of people

in the choir who didn't want to come

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into a public forum who've said

things to me - oh, that

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happened to me, but I don't

want to discuss it with anyone.

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This is the generation who had

to put up with harassment at work,

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who can't believe it's

still happening today.

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Lucy Manning, BBC News, Whitley Bay.

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A woman's been jailed for four years

after her dangerous dog attacked 12

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children in a playground.

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Claire Neal's Staffordshire bull

terrier escaped from her home before

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it carried out the attack in Blyth,

Northumberland.

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Peter Harris is outside

Newcastle Crown Court.

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Sounds awful, Peter, give us the

details?

Well, the judge described

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it as a "truly terrible situation"

as the dog chased those children

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through the playground. Some of them

went up on to the climbing frames to

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try and escape. Others were dragged

along the floor and bitten before

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the dog could be brought under

control. The injuries were nasty

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skin graphs and stitches for some,

bearing in mind one of the victims

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was only six years old. It turned

out in court Claire Neal should

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never have had the dog in the first

place. Just a month before a court

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had made an order that she should

hand the dog over to be destroyed

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because of previous attacks. She

failed to comply with that order,

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leading to these attacks just a few

weeks later. The judge in jailing

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her told her "it's not the dog's

fault, it's your fault."

Peter,

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thank you very much.

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A woman has died following a massive

gas explosion that destroyed her

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house in Leicestershire.

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It happened in Birstall,

near Leicester.

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The home of Janet Jasper,

who was understood to be in her late

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70s, was reduced to rubble

by the blast and other houses

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nearby were badly damaged.

0:21:340:21:36

An investigation is under way

to find out what happened.

0:21:360:21:41

Police are appealing for witnesses

and any dash-cam footage

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as they investigate the death

of a woman who was struck

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in a suspected multiple hit

and run in South London.

0:21:470:21:50

The 29-year-old victim was struck

by a lorry on a pedestrian crossing

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before she is thought to have been

struck by another

0:21:540:21:56

lorry and two cars.

0:21:560:21:58

None of the drivers

stopped after the incident

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in Tulse Hill yesterday.

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In a couple of days' time, it

will be six months since the horror

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of the Grenfell Tower fire.

0:22:130:22:15

This week we're hearing from some

of those affected by the disaster -

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whether they're survivors or one

of the many people who are helping

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the community on its long

and challenging process of recovery.

0:22:210:22:23

Tonight, it's the turn

of David Bailey, who manages child

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and adolescent mental health

services in the area.

0:22:250:22:28

People in the early

days were presenting

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with very disturbed sleep.

0:22:290:22:35

That they had images and thoughts

in their head that they didn't want

0:22:350:22:39

and people were feeling quite numb

and just quite overwhelmed by

0:22:390:22:42

the whole scale of what they'd seen.

0:22:420:22:46

We're dealing all the time

with children who have

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experienced bereavements,

who have experienced escaping

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from the building on that night.

0:22:510:22:59

People are trying I think to get

on with their lives,

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but are constantly reminded

of what happened on that, and that

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I think is really difficult.

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It's not just that you see

the tower, it's that you actually

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feel something when you're close

to the tower.

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It's hideous to look at because of

what it reminds you of.

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So it's hard for people who,

you know, haven't been in the area

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to know what it feels like to walk

down the road and to look up

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and to see the tower,

or to be in a playground and to look

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up and to see the tower.

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It's hard for people...

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I understand that it's hard

for people who aren't in this area

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to understand the impact it has

on a daily basis to the residents.

0:23:430:23:46

This is there all the time and we're

constantly looking at it

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and we're constantly dealing

with the impact of it.

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We are going to be actively

going out, knocking on doors,

0:23:510:23:54

going into schools.

0:23:540:23:57

We want people to know that whenever

they need that help and support,

0:23:570:24:01

they can get access to it.

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Whenever they need us, we'll be

there is the message that we want

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them to very clearly hear.

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That was David Bailey,

who manages the local Child and

0:24:180:24:20

Adolescent Mental Health Services

in the area.

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Hard to believe, but it was 40 years

ago that the first Star Wars

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film hit the cinemas,

spawning one of the most successful

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film franchises in history.

0:24:280:24:29

The latest instalment -

the eighth film - is called

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The Last Jedi and it

has its European premiere

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in London tonight.

0:24:330:24:34

Lizo Mzimba's on the

red carpet for us.

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Lizo. Yes, I'm here on the red

carpet joined by a familiar face to

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Star Wars fans, one of the stars,

perhaps the star of the Star Wars

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saga. Mark Hamill who plays Luke

Skywalker. What is it like for you

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emotionally returning to the

franchise that did so much for you?

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Well, it was surreal. We had no

idea. We had a beginning, middle and

0:24:590:25:04

end.

I thought if they are going to do

0:25:040:25:07

further Star Wars films they

wouldn't need us, they had new

0:25:070:25:10

characters. I can assure you my part

in The Last Jedi is twice as big as

0:25:100:25:17

it was inth force awakens.

Star Wars

is an important movie to fans. How

0:25:170:25:22

important is the way it has expanded

its recipation of all kinds to the

0:25:220:25:26

cinema audience?

Well, the films

were originally made for children.

0:25:260:25:32

We never expected it to be embraced

by the adult world. I guess we hit

0:25:320:25:38

that sweet spot it's for children of

all ages, but it's basically

0:25:380:25:42

escapism. People need that when

reality is too harsh. Whether they

0:25:420:25:51

go to Hogworts Middle Earth or the

Land of Oz it's comforting to go to

0:25:510:25:58

a galaxy far away, I guess.

I thought it more of a fairytale

0:25:580:26:02

than science fiction. We had a

Princess, farm boy and a wizard.

0:26:020:26:07

It's a continuation of all of that.

Thank you for your time from the

0:26:070:26:11

premier of Star Warser, here at the

Royal Albert Hall, back to you.

0:26:110:26:15

Thank you very much.

0:26:150:26:16

Time for a look at the weather.

0:26:160:26:18

Here's Darren Bett.

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Here's Darren Bett.

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Not as cold tonight as it was last

night by any means. There has been a

0:26:200:26:24

little bit of a thaw for some areas.

Still very tricky conditions out and

0:26:240:26:28

about on the roads and there is

still the chance of some icy

0:26:280:26:32

stretches too with the greatest risk

of disruption coming across Scotland

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and northern England. There has been

ice around the Glasgow area because

0:26:360:26:39

coming into the cold air we have

seen all this cloud spilling its way

0:26:390:26:43

eastwards. It is bringing with it

wet weather, too. There is a good

0:26:430:26:46

chance that wet weather will fall on

frozen surfaces bringing the risk of

0:26:460:26:51

ice for the next few hours.

Everything is moving eastwards. Wet

0:26:510:26:58

weather will gather in the west. In

between the cloud will break up and

0:26:580:27:02

those temperatures could be low

enough to bring the risk of icy

0:27:020:27:05

patches later in the night as well.

Tomorrow, we will find the

0:27:050:27:10

thickening cloud, strengthening

winds and outbreaks of rain pushing

0:27:100:27:13

eastwards across all areas. The rain

could be heavy at times. It cheers

0:27:130:27:16

up more in the afternoon. More

sunshine following on and some

0:27:160:27:19

showers. Those showers turning

increasingly wintry in Scotland and

0:27:190:27:24

Northern Ireland. Temperatures five

degrees at best. Further south you

0:27:240:27:26

could get nine or ten for a while in

southern England and south Wales.

0:27:260:27:30

Keep an eye on this snow. Snot just

across Scotland and Northern

0:27:300:27:33

Ireland, we may get snow at lower

levels briefly tomorrow evening in

0:27:330:27:37

Wales, Midland and northern England,

to top things up and keep that ice

0:27:370:27:40

risk going. As we head into

Thursday, we are left with sunshine

0:27:400:27:44

and showers. The showers will be

wintry, snow more likely over the

0:27:440:27:49

hills and particularly in Scotland

where the winds are lighter. We will

0:27:490:27:53

have stronger, blustery winds and

temperatures beginning to fall away.

0:27:530:27:56

Three in the central belt, seven in

southern England and south Wales.

0:27:560:28:01

More wintry showers around coastal

areas as we head into Friday. The

0:28:010:28:04

wind direction changing. More colder

air on the way. Not as cold as it

0:28:040:28:10

has been recently. Darren, thank you

very much.

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Before we go, just time to tell

you about a special report

0:28:150:28:17

coming up at 10.00pm.

0:28:170:28:18

Fergal Keane will have a special

report on a new humanitarian crisis

0:28:180:28:21

unfolding in the Democratic Republic

of Congo in Central Africa.

0:28:210:28:27

We lost our children,

they were killed.

0:28:270:28:32

Such suffering isn't the natural

condition of these people,

0:28:320:28:34

it's man-made.

0:28:340:28:44

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