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this is bbc news. the headlines at four. theresa may promises a £20 billion a year real—terms increase to the nhs in england by 2023. labour says it's not enough. we're making the nhs our priority, we're putting this significant amount of extra money into it. we need to make sure that money is spent wisely. we're saying you could go further and if the government made the taxation changes we are prepared to make you could be giving even more to the nhs. so, labour will be spending more on the nhs than the tories. hundreds of migrants who've been the focus of a european dispute over immigration arrive in spain more than a week after being rescued. the conservative mp sir christopher chope, who blocked legislation to outlaw upskirting, now says he does support moves to criminalise it. also germany are about to take on mexico in the 2018 world cup, as the holders hope to be the first country since brazil to win back—to—back tournaments. and brazil, the favourites to win the competition this time round,
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take on switzerland in their first game of the tournament. scouring the depths of loch ness. scientists use new technology to discover what lurks beneath the surface. in my childhood i was known as the boy whose mother has run off with an englishman... and indian writer and publisher anuradha roy speaks to gavin esler at hay festival. that's in half an hour here on bbc news. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. theresa may says the nhs in england will get an extra £20 billion a year in real—terms funding by 2023. in a bbc interview today the prime minister said some of the money would come from savings made when britain stops paying into the eu budget.
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she also suggested the rest would have to come from higher taxation. labour say the government was relying on a "hypothetical" windfall. 0ur health correspondent dominic hughes reports. as the pressure on the nhs has grown, so too have calls for more money for the health service. finally, after weeks of tough talks in whitehall, the prime minister has revealed the nhs budget will grow — paid for partly by the so—called "brexit dividend", but also possibly higher taxes. at the moment, as a member of the european union, every year we send significant amounts of money — we spend significant amounts of money — on our subscription, if you like, to the eu. when we leave, we won't be doing that. so the question is timing, isn't it? it's right that we use that money to spend on our priorities. and the nhs is our number one priority. absolutely. the new plan for nhs england covers the next five years. it will involve average annual increases of 3.4% in real terms. the budget for day—to—day running costs is around
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£115 billion this year. under the plan, there will be £20 billion more by 2023. but the independent institute for fiscal studies says the public finances will not benefit from any brexit dividend, and labour argues the increase falls short of what is needed. they told us they're going to pay for it from a brexit dividend. we don't really know what that means, because we don't know what the deal is going to be and what the overall effect on the economy is going to be. and, actually, whether brexit is going to end up costing us a great deal of money, or whether we can strike the sort of deal that would actually do us some good. and across the nhs there's a feeling this settlement is onlyjust enough to keep pace with rising demand. it does fall short of the independent assessment that we've had done, which suggests we need 4% a year. this is only going to be 3.4%. so, it is a good step forward, but we're still going to have to make hard choices at the end of the day. scotland, wales and northern ireland
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will also get extra funds, but the devolved administrations will decide how they're spent. this announcement leaves some big questions unanswered, not least the funding of social care, which has such a profound impact on the health service. without those details, there are no guarantees even this extra money will significantly ease the long—term pressures on the nhs. dominic hughes, bbc news. let's talk to siva anandaciva, chief analyst at the king's fund. thank you very much forjoining us this afternoon. how much difference is this money going to make? 50, this afternoon. how much difference is this money going to make? so, i think it is as abstention amount of funding that is being given to the nhs, the 3.4% increase each year, so it will make some difference. but u nfortu nately we it will make some difference. but unfortunately we think at the king's fund that this is less than what is needed to really see services for patients maintained and improved. so we think it is unlikely that you
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will see a genuine transformation in how long patients are waiting for ca re how long patients are waiting for care and how that care is delivered. so, some impact but not enough. what are the hard choices that will have to be made, then, if it is not in line with the 4% of which you have argued for? so, if you look at the pressures at the moment, you've got the possible deal losing £i.7 million per year, a&e departments which have not met national standards since 2015 and you've got patients waiting ever longer for hip and knee operations and buildings which need maintenance of. there is a whole host of issues which need additionalfunding. but a whole host of issues which need additional funding. but the level of funding which has been proposed will not be enough to do all of this. so, those are the tough choices that will have to be made. what about efficiency measures, rethinking approaches to giving out prescriptions which might be easily obtainable over the counter for instance? that is something which the nhs is already looking at, weather there are certain types of
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medicines which are not as effective and potentially should not be offered on the nhs. but realistically these are not huge sums of money which are going to be w011 so sums of money which are going to be won so it is only through additional funding to the nhs that we will see core services like a&e waiting times and hip and knee operations, if investment in community care, general practice, rather than just cutting costs on prescriptions. what work have you done on the appetite, the support from the public, in greater taxation if it is targeted towards the nhs? so, actually it has been surprising, when we have polled the public there has been a widespread response across different groups of support showing that people are willing to put their hands in their pockets and pay more in increased taxes to support the nhs. approach —— approaching two thirds of people in the most recent poll we did. so theresa may might
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not find too much resistance if that is the way she did it?|j not find too much resistance if that is the way she did it? i think it would be one of the sources for her to go to and i think the public can see the pressure which the services are under, how difficult it is to get and appoint them, how long they are waiting in a&e and they are willing to fund the service to find more doctors and nurses to meet those standards that we would expect. approaching the point with the advances in medicine and the costly treatments which are possible, are we approaching the point that we now need to think about providing a basic level of service that's still three at the point of receipt but anything more, you're going to have to pay into a private healthcare policy which of course has been not what a lot of people have wanted here? so, we've looked at how other health systems in other countries fund their healthcare. and what we have found is really rather than tinkering with how the funding is raised, we should look at the level of funding. raising money for a health service trooped central taxation and then they health service which is free at
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they health service which is free at the point of use is a really efficient way of organising healthcare. there are fewer transaction costs, less money moving its way around the system. so rather than tinkering with the fundamental principles of the nhs, which is funded through central taxation and free at the point of use, we would rather see the focus on how much funding is going in and making sure that funding is spent wisely. siva anandaciva, chief analyst at the the king's fund, thank you very much. a rescue ship which picked up hundreds of migrants off the coast of libya and sparked a diplomatic row has arrived in spain. the aquarius was initially turned away by italy and malta and it has now docked in the spanish port of valencia. 0ur europe correspondent damian grammaticas reports sunrise, and the private rescue ship the aquarius and its convoy were finally nearing a welcoming port. spain, and valencia, coming into sight. a european country, prepared to take them in. the 630 people who were on the aquarius have been at sea since they were picked up off the coast of libya over a week ago. behind them, a journey of more than 1000 miles,
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halfway across the mediterranean, after italy and malta refused them entry. the aquarius had reignited a european—wide debate about migration. by welcoming the ship, spain hopes to change the terms of the argument. by taking in this ship, spain's new socialist government wants to demonstrate what a new type of migration policy for europe can look like. 0ne it says where it's both possible to control your borders and respect human rights. that's why it's going to give every person on these ships a hearing for their asylum applications. we thank the spanish government for welcoming people in need, at times when many others are rejecting them or turning them away. this is what we need in these times, an expression of solidarity, an expression of support an expression of humanity.,
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more than 1,000 red cross volunteers were waiting on the quayside, along with doctors and immigration officials. spain will give them permits to stay for 45 days, free medical treatment and the opportunity to make their asylum claims. italy, meanwhile, says it is closing its ports to private rescue boats. but doctors without borders, who operate the aquarius, say saving lives will come first. europe's arguments about migration are taking centre stage once more, and the divisions are deeper than ever. damian grammaticas, bbc news, valencia. (pres) the conservative mp at the centre of the upskirting the conservative mp at the centre of the upskirting controversy says he does support moves to criminalise it. in an interview with the bournemouth echo, sir christopher chope said he backs measures to make upskirting illegal, butjust not using the parliamentary procedure of a private members bill. let's listen back to the moment he blocked it. you can hear the deputy speaker and liberal democrat mp vera hobhouse discussing the bill, and then just make out
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mr chope shouting "object". 0ther mps then cry "shame" . voyeurim 0ffences bill, second reading. object. objection taken, second reading. second reading, what date? 6th july. 6thjuly. earlier i spoke to our political correspondent jessica parker about this — she started by telling me about sir christopher's latest comments. well, the outline is that he is saying he is not against criminalising upskirting which is this practice of taking a photograph underneath somebody‘s clothes without their consent. what he objects to as you were just saying is this process of private members' bills. there are a number of mps who object to private members' bill because they think they lack scrutiny because they often happen on a friday and a lot of mps have gone home and it is quite empty in the house of commons.
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so they object to the lack of scrutiny. but he is also saying that he thinks the government has been hijacking time which is rightfully that of backbenchers so this is about who controls the house of commons, the government cannotjust bring in what it wants on a nod, we do not quite live in the putin era yet, he said. the government has said it was given its backing to this bill, if in fact it was very popular on a cross—party basis. labour mps said they were supporting it as did mps from other parties, who were clearly quite cross after sir christopher chope shouted object in the house of commons on friday. so, what would an mp like sir christopher chope who objects to private members' bills, for legislation to be brought forward, if not by that route, what would it be? well, he says, my recommendation to the government is to ensure the fastest, fairest and surest passage to the statute book for a bill to outlaw upskirting, which i wholeheartedly support. he wants the government to introduce its own legislation without delay, but not via a private members' bill. one would think that sir christopher chope never brings forward a private members' bill himself? but he does and he even acknowledges this! he says, i support the bills before
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the house, four of the 26 bills which fell at the same time were my own. so some people might see contradiction in that position. but sometimes people bring these bills to raise an issue which they want to raise in parliament, for example. and we are likely to see this upskirting bill coming back again? yes. and the important thing to point out is that the government are supporting this bill so it has got a lot of backing behind it, including from theresa may herself. sajid javid has revealed he was a victim of a moped mugging before he became home secretary. he told a newspaper his phone was snatched outside london's euston station. mrjavid, who is now in charge of britain's policing, said the theft left him "angry and upset". he says he's looking at how to give officers more powers to chase moped thieves. campaigners are calling for medicinal cannabis to be made legally available in the uk, after the home secretary intervened to help a 12—year—old boy suffering from epilepsy. sajid javid granted
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billy caldwell the right to use cannabis oil, after he was admitted to hospital with extreme seizures. billy's mother says he has responded well overnight to treatment, and she is now asking for a meeting with mrjavid to try to help other children. simonjones reports. a family's fight that they hope will benefit notjust billy caldwell, but others like him. on monday, they flew back into britain with cannabis oil they'd bought in canada to treat his epilepsy, but it contained an ingredient banned here. the drug, which they say has kept his seizures under control for almost a year, was confiscated. days later, he was back in hospital. the home secretary has now intervened, allowing billy to use the oil, but his mother has this message for sajid javid. i'm not going anywhere until this is put in place and this medicine is made accessible to all these other children who desperately need it. i'm asking sajid to please... i want to request a meeting with him in london as soon as possible, preferably tomorrow.
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i want to sit down with him in a dignified and democratic way. sajid javid, though, has not announced a change in the law. he said... but those who have been helping to care for billy caldwell believe mrjavid needs to go further. from here it is a ripple effect. this means to me that there's hope, for notjust billy, which is why this campaign is so important, because it's for all the families who need it. the family of six—year—old alfie dingley have appealed to the prime minister for the same access to cannabis treatment for his epilepsy, saying it would be cruel to delay it any further. some experts point out that the use of marijuana for medical conditions isn't always straightforward, and more trials are needed. billy has been granted a special 20—day licence for cannabis oil. what happens after that, and to others, is unclear.
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simon jones, bbc news. the headlines on bbc news. the prime minister promises a £20 billion a year real—terms increase to the nhs in england by 2023. labour says it's not enough, and would more than match what the government is spending. the hundreds of migrants rescued off the libyan coast have now arrived in spain. their plight has sparked a row between european union member states over who should accept them. the conservative mp sir christopher chope, who blocked legislation to outlaw upskirting now says he does support moves to criminalise it. sport now, and for a full round—up, from the bbc sport centre. good afternoon to you and we are starting at the world cup and just one result so far today, a stunning
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freekick was all that separated serbia from costa rica as james ba rford serbia from costa rica as james barford reports. serbia from costa rica as james ba rford reports. these serbia from costa rica as james barford reports. these two teams had never played each other before today. 0nly never played each other before today. only a world cup could bring such nations together in this way. and what a stage on which to play. in the same group as brazil and switzerland, surely taking your chances has never been more important, an only site came the costa rica. this was a match that featured many a familiar face, dusan tadic feeling the full force of a world cup encounter. but it was enough to shake serbia from their slumber. someone manchester united are understood to be tracking is milenkovic and you can see why. eventually one of those familiar faces found a way through. from 25 yards, captain aleksandar kolarov, formerly of manchester city, doing what he does best. three direct free
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kicks already scored at this world cup, equalling the total from four yea rs cup, equalling the total from four years ago, not even keylor navas could stop that. and there is a match taking place at the moment. germany versus mexico. it started at four o'clock and we can look at the live pictures from bbc1 now... and it is the defending champions germany taking on mexico. 0—0 at the moment. just over 20 minutes gone in the first half. meanwhile england are due to arrive in volgograd shortly for tomorrow's opening game against tunisia. the team bus has left the hotel in repino earlier today. the starting lineup was announced yesterday but it remains under wraps for the time being. if it is as expected it will mean nine of the starting xi have not played ata of the starting xi have not played at a world cup before and that would include defender harry maguire. no doubt about it we're going into the
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game and trying to get three points, we're not going there to be happy to come away with a draw. we want the three points. its massive. the first game in any group stage is big, it's the biggest tournament in football, you can't lose your first game. three points would make it a lot more easy to qualify. fernando alonso has won the 2a hours of le mans, having previously won the monaco grand prix and now he only needs to win the indianapolis 500 to com plete needs to win the indianapolis 500 to complete the famous hat—trick in motor racing. despite starting from tenth on the grid, jorge lorenzo claimed back—to—back moto gp victories by winning his home race ahead of marc marquez. cal crutchlow finish fourth, despite crushing encoder fired. finish fourth, despite crushing encoderfired. roger federer finish fourth, despite crushing encoder fired. roger federer has marked his return to the top of the world rankings by beating milos
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raonic to win the mercedes cup in stuttgart. federer had not played since the miami 0pen stuttgart. federer had not played since the miami open in march after choosing to mr clay—court season altogether. his straight sets win in germany gives him a 98 tour title. meanwhile british number one johanna konta is currently playing ashleigh barty in the nottingham open final. the australian number one won the first set with johanna konta taking the first two games of the second. if she wins it she will return to the world's top 20. england number eight billy vunipola is returning to london from south africa today after fracturing his right arm again during the test yesterday. he only returned to action in april after four months out with the original break. it is just one four months out with the original break. it isjust one more four months out with the original break. it is just one more thing for coach, and jones to worry about. after the match in south africa he had an ill tapered exchange with bbc reporter chrisjones, who asked him if selection was an issue. we have
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110w if selection was an issue. we have now got 25 players sitting at home who are not available for selection. these are the best players we've got and i'm happy to work with these players. the coaching staff is doing a greatjob. players. the coaching staff is doing a great job. you've also got a very large player pool, bigger than any other team in world rugby so i'm not sure if other countries would take that unavailability as an excuse? are not using it as an excuse, i said there is 25 players unavailable andi said there is 25 players unavailable and i am working with the players i've got. and for you personally buddy ade, it is the first time you have been under this kind of pressure with england — how confident are you that you can turn it around? 100% confident, confident are you that you can turn it around? 10096 confident, as you are regressive. i just it around? 10096 confident, as you are regressive. ijust asked you a question, eddie. your question is very aggressive. that's not the plan. moving on to cape town, how can you pick these boys up? we've just got to plan well and try to fix the errors and get on with it, there is no magic solution here, chris chester meanwhile scotland have lost to the united states for the first
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time. blair kinghorn had put the scots ahead and they scored a try in added time but missed the conversion that would have won it for them. that is the sport for now. let's get more now on our main story. the government is being urged to clarify plans to invest an additional £20 billion in the nhs in england each year by 2023. the prime minister suggested the rise would, in part, be funded by a so—called "brexit dividend". the plan would see the health service's budget rising by an average of 3.4% a year, which is still less than the 3.7% average increase the nhs has had since 19118. during the thatcher and major years, the annual average real growth rate was 3.3%. that rose to 6% under tony blair and gordon brown. for the conservative, lib dem coalition government, it dropped to 1.1%. and the figure since david cameron and theresa may
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have been in charge has gone up to 2.3%. 0ur political correspondent jonathan blake is here. it has gone up and down quite a bit but how much detail is there on where this 20 billion would come from? very little. the prime minister has said that in part it would be funded by what she calls the brexit dividend, the money that the brexit dividend, the money that the uk spends on the eu, paying into the uk spends on the eu, paying into the eu budget as a member. that money she says would be able to be spent elsewhere after we leave the european union. straightaway economists piling in today's saying hang on, the brexit dividend doesn't really exist, because the government has already accounted for a lot of the money that it spends on membership of the eu. and also if you look at the broader picture, the amount of money the government will have available to it in the short—term least as a result of brexit is a smaller polar not bigger, because of falling tax
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reve nu es bigger, because of falling tax revenues and slow economic growth and other factors. so, revenues and slow economic growth and otherfactors. so, very little detailfrom the prime minister. but she has said that the brexit dividend, arguments about that aside, would not be enough so we will have to contribute more as a country. and what she means by that is that taxes will have to go up. we do not know where exactly people are going to feel the pinch, we don't know which taxes and we don't know by how much. also she hasn't ruled out borrowing more. borrowing to fund day—to—day spending on public services is something the conservative party rolled out in its ma nifesto conservative party rolled out in its manifesto at the last election so thatis manifesto at the last election so that is politically difficult for her to do as well. we will get decisions and details from the chancellor and the prime minister much further down the line. and what about labour? they have said that they would much what the government is saying in terms of an increase on nhs health spending. and they would go further. we have heard from the shadow health secretary, john ashworth, today, saying that they would stick to their plan of reversing cuts to corporation tax and that they would find an increase
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in nhs spending with that. but they're also criticising the government's idea of the so—called brexit dividend, saying that it was a hypothetical situation and that the government is misleading people by using that. how much is this announcement now down to being a bit ofa announcement now down to being a bit of a swinger ahead of a difficult week regarding bills in the commons? well, this has been in negotiation for a long time, weeks and months, between the chancellor, philip hammond, nhs leaders, who work arguing forup to hammond, nhs leaders, who work arguing for up to 4% to address the funding shortages in the nhs and to improve it. the treasury wanted to keep the figure is much lower, around 2%. so it is somewhere in the middle. and the prime minister was clearly keen to make an announcement. she said a couple of months ago that there would be a long—term funding plan for the nhs.
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but it has fallen, whether by accident or design, this weekend ahead of a very, very important and potentially difficult week for the prime minister and the government in the house of commons. the eu withdrawal bill is going back to the house of lords and will come back to the house of commons this week. and there are key amendments there which supporters of brexit are keen to see got rid of but conservative mps who wa nt close got rid of but conservative mps who want close ties to the eu are keen to see included in the bill, which will allow parliament to have more ofa will allow parliament to have more of a say in the event of the government not reaching a deal with brussels. so, is this a way of keeping the brexiteers onside, throwing them some red meat ahead of that? we will see. experts now fear it may not be possible to save the world—famous glasgow school of art, following the huge fire which devastated the site on friday. fire crews spent a second night at the scene, tackling the final pockets of the blaze. it's the second fire there in four years. catriona renton has been
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at the scene and has been speaking to the emergency services there. well, you'll see that there's still very much a lot of activity happening here, still fighting, in firefighting mode, as the fire service say, and i'm joined by the chief officer, alasdair hay. alasdair, tell us what exactly is happening now, is it still burning in there? good morning, first of all i would like to echo the words of the first minister yesterday. this is heartbreaking to see such devastation of such an iconic building. we're still very much in a firefighting phase at this moment in time. we've extinguished the main fire, however there are still pockets. what our crews are doing in a technical term, they're turning over and they're dampening downjust to make sure there is no possibility of the fire flaring up and affecting any other properties within the vicinity. we've heard all these suggestions that it might not be restorable this time, what do you feel about that, are we anywhere near to being able to say that? we're still in the very early stages of tackling this incident. we've established a fire
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investigation team and the full facts and circumstances, they will work on that as we go through this week. but i really want to at this stage emphasise this has been a very difficult fire, the firefighters have been as always outstanding, supported by their colleagues within control but also i think i need to shout out to our partners police scotland, scottish ambulance service, the salvation army and in fact the people and the businesses of glasgow who have offered up their support to us. and it is really heartfelt from them and appreciated by our firefighters. obviously there are concerns for the structural safety of the building — is it likely to have anything demolished sooner rather than later, is there anything particularly unsafe at the moment? this is a heartbreaking incident. if we can take any solace from it, there has been no injuries. and what we want to absolutely avoid at this stage is for anybody to get injured. so we're being very cautious, we're working with our partners
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in glasgow city council building control, we've got structural engineers advising us as we continue with the firefighting phase of this operation. chief officer, thank you very much for talking to us. the operations are still ongoing here, the investigation is ongoing now. and it will be several weeks probably before the building is safe enough for forensic investigators to be able to get in and around that building to find out exactly what happened here on friday night. scientists are scouring the depths of scotland's loch ness, using some new technology to discover what lurks below. they're using environmental dna sampling, a tool to find tiny fragments of scales, skin and even fur left behind by animals to gain a better understanding of native species in the lake. rylee carlson explains. for hundreds of years, tales of loch ness have captured imaginations, and notjust because of its beauty. instead, people flock here hoping to find proof of a monster lurking beneath the water. now, scientists are hoping modern improvements modern environmental dna technology can help unravel the mystery.
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we're going to be taking some water samples at a variety of depths using this device here. neil gemmell is with the university of 0tago in new zealand. while analysing those water samples he will be hunting for unknown dna. from half a litre of water we can get a very, very good catalogue of life within the loch. and we thought this would be a great place to showcase that technology, because of course there is this hook of, there may be something unknown to science lurking in those waters. but professor gemmell isn't the first to try. in this 1986 search, scientists tried using ultrasound but came up empty—handed. and just two years ago, a robotic submarine search turned up an old film prop of the beast, but nothing else. even those dedicated to nessie know the odds are slim.

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