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search be t got your back. This

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is the Times evening briefing on

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Friday the tenth of May. New

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figures show that the Uk economy

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is out of recession. The Office

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for National Statistics found that the

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economy grew no point six percent

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between January and March the fastest

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rate for two years. Paul Johnson

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is the head of the Institute

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for Fiscal Studies. He told Times

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Radio it's good news, but with

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caveats this is only one quarter

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and this is the first estimate.

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The also, National Statistics is rather

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pruned. Changing his as to puts a

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bit later all this is a very

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odd thing to measure comes off the

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back of a long period of very

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poor growth and indeed stagnation. But yeah

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so maybe we can definitely take this

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is good news which is nice or

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hey, they believed us. A cast Armor

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has outlined his plan to use counterterrorism

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powers to tackle the gangs organizing small

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by crossings across the channel. He says

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he will use seventy five billion pounds

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race from scrapping the Rwanda scheme to

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create a new Border Security Command Times.

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Radio Senior political Correspondent Patrick

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Mcguire says the Tories thing,

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the plan is just a

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rebrand of existing government schemes

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they essentially say kissed almost.

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Plans for a Small Boats

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Command which would be a

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a new government agency bringing

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in a M I, Five

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agents, a counter terrorism place,

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and other government staff funded

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labor say by the abolition.

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Of. The A Rwanda schemes seventy

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five million pounds that. They. Say

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would Raise A is no different from

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what the government is doing already. The

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Un General Assembly: A sense of. This

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evening and whether to buy com Stein

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is a full member it still needs

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to pass through security count who were

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it's expected to be vetoed by the

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United States but would give Palestinian some

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additional rights and privileges. John Bolton, former

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Us Ambassador to the You and Scaife

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this morning to Times Radio This whole

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thing is a total joke. There is

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no state of Palestine If the U

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N considers. Palestine. Quote

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Unquote State: the United States will cut

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off all contributions to that organization and

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I hope people take that into account.

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Teenagers will be invited to sign up

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for a week long military boot camp

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this summer so they can learn what

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it's like to serve in the army.

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Lord Lancaster of Can and Head of

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the Army Reserve, said he would be

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a taste a session for youngsters aged

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eighteen and above as part of plans

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to change people's attitudes towards the armed

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Forces. Fair Me Griffin, the Times Executive.

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Editor says there's no obligation for those

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taking part. a was keen as it's

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and points I thought maybe attendants alone

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would mean you have to sign up

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afterwards. Basically would benefit those in particular

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who don't already have any connection to

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the military. The Netherlands Eurovision entry used

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Klein is under investigation by the European

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Broadcasting Union chew to an unexplained incident

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and will not be rehearsing again and

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some further notice. It's not yet clear

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if the twenty six year old will

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be performing and Eurovision song from contests.

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Grand Final in no mood tomorrow.

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Protests have taken place against Israel's

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participation in the event and all

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they politics are usually banned from

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the contests. This year the war

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between Israel and Hamas has overshadowed

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the event. a dream. Bradley's in

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Sweden covering the events. Told Times

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radio said the atmosphere doesn't feel

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like Eurovision. It's a very strange

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I must say I mean a

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real remember Liverpool last year which

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had a party atmosphere and full

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of joy of everybody injuring. Themselves

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I don't think that's the case here as

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it's and sin underneath, but it's not the

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same it Liverpool and you can tell that

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a slight weird atmosphere at the Fear of

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