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the headlines: four people have died after a light aircraft and a helicopter collide in mid air in buckinghamshire. the eu tells theresa may she has two weeks to put more money on the table if the eu is to agree to begin brexit trade talks before the end of the year. president mugabe makes his first public appearance since the military public appearance since the military seized control of the zimbabwean government. an update on the market numbers for you — here's how london's and frankfurt ended the day. and in the the united states this is how the dow and the nasdaq are getting on. a recovery in global equities last steam... this is the tesla senate. —— samy.
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the name was made using electric cars, this is an all electric truck. will it leave conventional boys struggling in its wake? tesla has high hopes for the zero emissions laurie, self driving technology will be included so one day convoys of trucks can travel close together. in theory, reducing running costs and improving safety. tesla also says it will be cheaper... but only 500 miles, existing lorries can do double bat on a single tank of diesel. they will be able to make it but whether they can make it to scale and the production timetables they have set out is in question. they have not been able to do it on any model so far. assuming the new laurie can be reduced in numbers, will hauliers want to buy it? a high
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degree of driver comfort... a new laurie, diesel —— zlatan and pogba. £200,000, way beyond what people can afford in the uk. —— lorry. £200,000, way beyond what people can afford in the uk. -- lorry. hidden in the back of the electric lorry was another secret. this can be the biggest production car on the banks, they think. it has been said that they think. it has been said that they are going to go too far, too fast. a family renting a home in london has been threatened with eviction — after complaints that their baby's crying was too noisy. attila and ildiko worth received the warning from their management company, after it said neighbours had complained "on a daily basis".
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the parents say it is horrible discrimination against families with children. it is stressful. we just moved in, the move was stressful enough. immediately after we said we have to move again. we moved here for a reason so move again. we moved here for a reason so we do not want to live anywhere else because it is pricey accommodation to be close to a good school. if we moved out, our son will not give him some cannot. a military dog who helped save the lives of british and afghan troops in afghanistan is to receive the animal equivalent of the victoria cross — the dickin medal. mali was seriously wounded in 2012, when he entered a building in kabulunderfire, to sniff out explosives and insurgents. despite his injuries he carried on, helping to secure the enemy stronghold. his new handler, corporal daniel hatley, says his dog is exceptionally brave. it's the animal equivalent of the victoria cross,
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and this year's dickin medal is being awarded to mali, the eight—year—old belgian malinois. in 2012, he was helping british troops in afghanistan when they came under attack. in searching for insurgents, mali came under direct fire. his job was to sniff out explosives, and he was even hoisted up outside the building several times to help find a safe exit. his handler during the operation is anonymous for security reasons. from operations that we'd been on previously, he had shown his... he'd really sort of shown his mettle and built a reputation amongst all the guys. by the time we launched onto this operation, we really felt that we had a guardian angel amongst us. the mission lasted seven and a half hours, and mali's contribution to its success is undeniable. the amount of noise, the dust, the smoke, you know, it must have overloaded his senses. he received blast injuries from two
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grenades that were thrown down the stairs at him, but again, he still carried on after that. the military uses around 500 dogs in a variety of roles from sniffing out explosives to hunting down insurgents. as for that medal, his current handler says mali thought it was an edible treat at first. but having made a full recovery, mali is now passing on his skills at the canine training squadron, which teaches dogs and their handlers about their roles in the military. the national archives think clearing through carter could help another stories. a treasured item is a frame
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carved from a first world war on the biscuit. archive, laughed, copper, shelves, we tend to put family stuff away and forget about it. what if amongst the objects there is something which told a bigger story about a family member and perhaps took us on a journey to something extraordinary? a home object is now in reading museum. it looks like an ordinary framed photograph, but the frame is a biscuit. reading used to be home to one of the most famous names in this kit making, huntley and palmer provided solid snacks to the soldiers, so solid that some soldiers, so solid that some soldiers carved them and sent them home as gifts. i suppose it was a keepsa ke
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home as gifts. i suppose it was a keepsake that mum liked and showed me of herfather, keepsake that mum liked and showed me of her father, who keepsake that mum liked and showed me of herfather, who had keepsake that mum liked and showed me of her father, who had sent it back to his mother to say how much he loved her. the picture, the scared this, the worry, the concern. —— how scared he was. it connects an 80 minute wait, he wanted to show his mother he was all right. you could end up here. records going back 1000 years. every day, hundreds of documents brought from 2.5 kilometres of shelving, all read as digital copies. a spy story from the first world war. this concerns the case of karl friedrich miller, the evidence against thin includes a number of letters. —— muller. in gold, that which is hidden by the secret or invisible ink. if you scan through the file and flick through a number of pages, you'll even find
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the lemon he used to write the letters. this relates to suffrage and women's rights. he is a woman who went by the alias of irony. she was willing to give a life in prison, forcibly fed in prison. from tomorrow, archives nationwide will be open and we can explore. who knows, the next big discovery could be yours. do not touch the biscuit. handwritten letters might have seen something consent to the history books for some of the new generation. a school at kidderminster has teamed up with two
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local care homes to launch an intergenerational pen pal scheme between residents. what do you think the exciting post might be? the pen pal letters ? the exciting post might be? the pen pal letters? the pupils are eager to see what their pen pals have to say. dear jazmine. see what their pen pals have to say. dearjazmine. thank see what their pen pals have to say. dear jazmine. thank you see what their pen pals have to say. dearjazmine. thank you for your lovely and well—written letter. dearjazmine. thank you for your lovely and well-written letter. most of the children have never received a letter before let alone written one. thanks to a scheme linking them toa one. thanks to a scheme linking them to a local care home, they are now old handset it. we believe the art of letter writing is forcibly encouraged children to write for a real progress beyond social media. we believe as a school we can engage with the local community, we're passionate about that. the considerable age gap between correspondence does not seem a problem. you get to listen to where
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they have been, what they have been doing. the cheeky stuff they have done. you get to ask the questions you really want and most of the time they enter them. this project is about so much more teaching a generation of children raised and e—mails how to write properly set out letters. pupils are now finding out letters. pupils are now finding out about their pen pals, where they lived, what they did, it is forging friendships across generation. this is from tilly, shall i read it to you? equally well received at the ca re you? equally well received at the care home, many have dementia and staff help to read the mail, draft the replies. rees asks, what was your favourite trip? weston—super—mare. your favourite trip? weston-super-mare. one lady could
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not believe that children wanted to know about her and her life. she started crying with happy tears. the thought that someone wanted to know about her. has anyone got a base their pen pal is visiting? finau, their pen pal is visiting? finau, the children finding out as much as they can about the pen pals. just before christmas, they will meet face—to—face. nice handwriting. scientists and engineers have been working on the development of human—like robots for years but the machines have always had a rather embarrassing problem — they fall over a lot. until now. this is the one of the latest creations of american engineering firm boston dynamics. the team behind the atlas robot hope that it'll eventually be agile enough to carry out search and rescue missions. as you can see, it's already capable of pulling off stunts that many human gymnasts would be proud of. perfectly landed. it could go to the
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gym for you. where skies are clear, temperatures dipping quickly. the faster not as widespread as last night. some areas of cloud around. we go from client to clear spells. a fair few showers across scotland, but of northern ireland and parts of england. a brisk breeze. clear skies, east anglia into south east england where we see the lowest temperatures. lowest in the countryside. for some of us going into saturday. cloud and some patchy rainfor into saturday. cloud and some patchy rain for wales, midlands. into saturday. cloud and some patchy rainforwales, midlands. into southern england. quite a cold feeling afternoon here. there showers, sunshine coming back, best of sunshine in scotland, very breezy. blustery showers in the far north and northern isles. widespread frost this sunday begins. the best
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of dissension in the east. fair amount of cloud around quite a bit of light rain. this is bbc news. the headlines: police and air accident accident investigators say they are trying to establish the cause of a mid—air collision involving a light air—craft and a helicopter that killed four people. 0ur priorities today remain was investigating the next of kin, finding out who they are, informing them and supporting them with specialist officers as we progress the investigation here on site. the eu tells theresa may she has two weeks to put more money on the table if the eu is to agree to begin brexit trade talks before the end of the year. in zimbabwe, president mugabe is seen in public for the first time since the military takeover. a family renting in west london have been threatened with eviction after complaints that their baby was crying — they were warned also in the next hour,
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