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' £61 ' e41i “hm £61 million per year. asjust over £41 million per year. every day they do not claim the prize, they could be missing out on interest payments of $60,000. so if you suddenly became richer than eltonjohn you suddenly became richer than elton john and madonna you suddenly became richer than eltonjohn and madonna combined with adele, what would you do with all the money? probably buy a couple of houses, travel the world just enjoy life. to be honest it is a bit eccentric but i would buy a 747 jet. haveit eccentric but i would buy a 747 jet. have it renovated and convert it into a home. mega millions winners have up to a year to claim their prize, they just need have up to a year to claim their prize, theyjust need to make sure they do not lose that winning ticket. time for a look at the weather. here's nick miller. well this settled autumn weather is about to become to an abrupt end as it is turning much colder by the end
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of the week. we had some strong wind around and still a bit of rain in the north west of scotland. a lot of clout in the west of scotland into northern ireland. but also some sunshine in southern england and drew the midlands into the east of scotland. temperatures up to 17 degrees. enter tonight we keep this weather pattern with our coming in from the atlantic. maybe some drizzle around and patchy rain. there is no frost, maybe the odd patch of missed going into tomorrow morning and then more of the same for many tomorrow. maybe a bit more clout. but the rain is gathering in north—west scotland, turning heavier and more persistent once again. this is the developing weather front which moves south sweeping away that
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mild air still with us for tomorrow. not a huge amount of rain, that is not the issue as it moves south. but the arctic air is going to be the issue going into friday, it will feel much colder. many of us will be dry with some sunshine. and some snow to the higher ground across parts of scotland and the north york moors. higher up you temperatures have dipped significantly. feeling colder in the wind and we keep that into the start of the weekend. again many places dry. maybe some rumbles of thunder. the wind direction is a wintry direction, a strong wind and that has an effect on the ceiling of the weather. not getting into double figures for most of us. and factoring in that wind it feels even colder. so to sum up, a much colder
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field to the weather friday into the weekend. a lot of sunshine around, wintry over the hills in the northern part of the uk and frost possible overnight. but on the plus side we do not always get to go to the arctic above the arctic is bringing the weather to us! a reminder of our main story this lunchtime. a warning that the uk border may not be ready to cope with a uk expert and criminal gangs could take advantage. good afternoon, it's 1.30pm and here's your latest sports news. england cricket coach trevor bayliss has criticised the one—day side's attitude, after they suffered their heaviest defeat ever in their final match against sri lanka.
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england had already won the series, but bayliss says theyjust weren't on their game. i thought their performers in the field, their attitude was nowhere nearup to field, their attitude was nowhere near up to scratch for a number one team. we have got some hard work to do going forward. 0ne team. we have got some hard work to do going forward. one thing leads to another. some dropped catches as well. fielding can give you confidence for the rest of your game. it is one part of the game we do together. i think that showed, it passed over into our bowling and batting performance. cristiano ronaldo was given a warm welcome back to old trafford, as his sidejuventus took on manchester united in the champions league. he didn't score but did have a hand in the only goal which sealed victory forjuventus, his cross setting up paulo dybala. united travel to italy for the return fixture in two weeks' time. manchester city pep guardiola said his side played the best football of his time in charge as they beat shakhtar donetsk three nil.
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bernardo silva added the gloss on the performance, coming on as a substitute to score. his manager had said before the game that his side were not ready to win the champions league. after two defeats, tottenham take on the dutch champions psv eindhoven tonight. but spurs will still be without midfielder dele alli, who has a hamstring injury — he's missed the last four games. psv have also lost their opening two group games. while liverpool are in a slightly better position, second in their group, with three points, they're at home to 1991 champions red star belgrade. the serbians are back in the main draw for the first time in 26 years, but won't have any fans with them due to a ban, prompting liverpool's manager to rally his support. we need to be ready to fight for each little square metre of space with all we have. for that, we need
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oui’ with all we have. for that, we need our crowd. that is very, very important. we learned last year that atmosphere can make a difference. that is what we have to make sure again. usain bolt could still sign to be a professional footballer in australia — despite the fact the club he's playing for can't afford him. he's been on trial with the central coast mariners but they said it was unlikely bolt would sign with them, without a "financial contribution from a third party." now the australian football association says its working with the club "in regards to funding". the rugby football union say they're prepared to consider appointing a premiership coach with no international experience, to succeed eddiejones as england boss. jones is set to leave in 2021 but he could quit next year, if england underperform at the world cup in the autumn. the search for his replacement has already begun and director of professional rugby nigel melville says they are looking at all the options, overseas and in the premiership, which may mean going for someone who's yet to coach at international level. that's all the sport for now.
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you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. albee back at 2pm. see you then. let's ta ke albee back at 2pm. see you then. let's take a look at a few other stories here this afternoon. we all want to look and feel our best, but more and more people in the uk are putting their health at risk by turning to black market websites to buy treatments, only to find they are fake. counterfeit medicine worth £2 million was seized in the uk during one week this month, as part of a crackdown on unregulated sales. jayne mccubbin reports. police, can you come to the front door, please. the pot was white and it had like a printed label on it and it said "slimming pills". no label of dosage or any of that.
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no guidance? nothing, nothing at all. i don't remember caring whatsoever what was in them. i was only interested in would it make me thin? alexia represents a growing number of people who have turned to the internet to buy illicit medication, a trade which is being targeted in this early morning raid. we have been given exclusive access by the medicines and health care products regulatory agency. officers are searching this property after finding illegal pills being sold on the dark web. these are non—genuine products. if there are people buying them online and if there are people taking them, then they are putting their health at risk. it is as simple as that. today one man is arrested but during one week of action this month, mhra officers seized over 1 million pills, inspected 22 postal hubs, seizing over 700 parcels, shutting down over 120 websites. i'm going to show you roughly what we found in his bedroom. these are all unlicensed medicines.
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these are all ready to go. these are all loose. what are they? it could be anything. in a warehouse outside london, the nhra show us crate upon crate of seized pills. some have no active ingredients, some far too much, others licensed for sale overseas but not here because of health risks. what are people buying? they buy all sorts of things but i suppose primarily it is what we call lifestyle products. diet pills, erectile dysfunction. and there are some really convincing adverts and they're for things like this, like diet pills? yes, and there is always advice to women about miracle cures to lose weight or do anything. if it is too good to be true, that is exactly what it will be. and the health risk are real as alexia found out after spending years on slimming pills without knowing anything of their content. i was definitely very hooked on them. i would faint quite a lot, i had problems with heart rate, but i have also had problems
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with my bowel. back on the raid officers have traced the pill business back to a lock—up. we found a number of the sealed bags and this bag does contain a couple of thousand. the vast majority of these are slimming and anti—anxiety pills with a value of several hundred thousand pounds. all sold without prescription and without the buyer knowing anything of their real contents or their real impact. people who are ordering these things have got no idea what these medicines contain, whether they contain the active ingredient that support the medical condition, whether it could worsen their medical condition. but what we do know is they are paying for it. and these criminals have got total disregard for public safety and health. they are only interested in one thing, which is making money. jayne mccubbin, bbc news. it is wednesday and that means prime
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minister's questions. that is a lot going on in westminster. that is go to norman smith. he can assess the day's events as they stand. hello, norman. iam day's events as they stand. hello, norman. i am today not going to mention brexit at all. no backstop, no implementation period, no transition period, instead we will talk about some of the other issues that cropped up at pmq ‘s. i am joined by caroline lucas and donovan and ronald. we were hoping to have a conservative mp. caroline lucas, let's talk about saudi arabia. we've got more words from the prime ministerfrom arabia. we've got more words from the prime minister from theresa may. she says she was going to talk to the crown prince. no visas for those
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implicated in the alleged murder.m that enough? that is nowhere near enough. what on earth does the saudi regime have to do before the government to consider serious action against them? with not only had these appalling murder ofjamal khashoggi, but we've had a humanitarian crisis and war crimes being committed in yemen. the bottom line is, they've got to stop selling arms to saudi arabia. that is no way around this. she was talking about a few fees as he around there, that is not going to cut it. if we are serious about using power against saudi arabia we should be saying, this is the red line and they must not cross it. jonathan reynolds, does it come down to arms sales? not cross it. jonathan reynolds, does it come down to arms sales7m shouldn't do. it should come down to the rule of law. i am a former memberof the the rule of law. i am a former member of the arms control committee. when the prime minister
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says we have the strictest arms export controls in the world, it is i'io export controls in the world, it is no good having those rules are coming toa no good having those rules are coming to a situation like this and refusing to do them because of political considerations or export considerations. when i was on that committee, i was part of a team that voted for, under the rules we have, though sales to be soft wealth that is an independent investigation. if we're not going to do that, does pretend we have strict rules because we don't apply them. we live in the real world and have to deal with a lot of regimes we don't like, a of jobs depend on the arms industry, is that a price worth paying to make a statement over saudi arabia? that a price worth paying to make a statement over saudi arabia ?m that a price worth paying to make a statement over saudi arabia? is not a straightforward as that. we benefit from... if countries are not willing to, it is a threat to us. i ama willing to, it is a threat to us. i am a supporter of the domestic defence industry, i don't want to
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buy in the fences from other countries, i wanted done by skilled workers in the north—west. if we're going to have clear rules about what the limitations of that and how we're going to respect the rule of law, we can't turn a blind eye to those rules and pretend we are applying them when we're not. we make any difference if we decided to end arms sales? the french arms industry will benefit. that might be the case but i don't think that should be and i give it a game is doing what is right. we want to live ina doing what is right. we want to live in a rules —based system. the excuse that maybe somebody else will break the rules so we will break them ourselves, doesn't stack up. we want to be able to hold our head up high in the international community and that means doing what the right thing is. it is huge amount of support in the country for saying the right thing now would be to hold those arms sales. we also had one of your colleagues raising the issue of the front page of the daily
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telegraph which sites a businessman who is gagged by a member of staff from making allegations from speaking out. through a nondisclosure agreement. now, do you think the government should take action in any way to curb or limit the use of nondisclosure agreements? that is a lot to be concerned about. there is huge interest in this story today and it does appear that is something that can be misused by wealthy people to be able to pervert the course ofjustice in their favour. to my mind, as soon as anybody tries to get these things in this and keep it quiet, it becomes a national story in itself. it is right that was raised, i think —— i hope the government to look at it. this place, the house of commons, we've got some issues to address as well in terms of these issues and we shouldn't shy away from it, but this isa shouldn't shy away from it, but this is a specific issue. notjust in relation to these issues, quite a
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few cases of nondisclosure agreement of things particularly relationships between banks and clients, it is only anywhere that is a lot of public concern. caroline lucas, how do you take action? if someone is willing to take many for their silence how'd you get around that? you stop the organisations in questions from being able to strike that kind of agreement. the problem is it isn't the fact that perhaps it makes something go quiet around that issue, that person has accepted the payoff for, you don't get the cumulative set of evidence against a person or organisation, which means it gets much harder to tackle those issues later on down the line. the government should look at taking action on this issue. we had a house of commons commission meeting this afternoon following the bullying
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report the other week. how far is this place is still not facing up to the allegations of bullying and harassment of staff? we've got a major problem here. i sat on the steering group the leader of the house convened. i pushed for the whole process to be independent. i lost that battle because others still said when it came to deciding a sanction against the mp who had done wrong it should be mps to make that decision. you cannot have mps marking each other's homework, it stinks, people will not stand for that. i hope the report will make people sit up and listen to this report because that serious stuff in there. thanks very much for your time. smell the air, that is brexit 3n! that is what life used to be
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alive when we discuss things before the world of brexit. i'm not sure i can remember such a time, norman. i knew certainly can't. thank you for stop norman smith at westminster. we will have all the latest business news coming up in the next few minutes but we have one more story to bring you pay for that. police in kent say they're treating the disappearance of a 46—year—old woman as a potential murder. sarah wellgreen, who has five children, was last seen near her home in new ash green two weeks ago. 0ur correspondent peter whittlesea has been following the case and joins me now from new ash green. you are at a certain centre, explain more. the village pavilion here has been turned into a coordination centre for the search. these people have just come back from searching woodland nearby for three hours. i fickou can see the map on the ground, that shows the five square
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miles that has been searched already. —— i think you can. at two o'clock they will be another team, a shift change and more searchers will go shift change and more searchers will 9° up shift change and more searchers will go up out looking to see if they can find sarah wellgreen. the police have told these volunteers to take pictures of any evidence they think, the police will come and see if it is crucial evidence. to give a background on this, she went missing on the 9th of october. she hasn't been seen since. the police say the only thing she left behind was her black iphone. they are saying today this was a potential murder enquiry and they are asking anyone who saw her on the 9th of october to contact them immediately. they are telling any president in the new ash green area to give them a cam footage because that could be vital in this investigation. thank you for now.
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the latest on that continuing police investigation for the missing 46—year—old woman. hurricane willa has made landfall on mexico's pacific coast, with maximum winds of nearly 200 kilometres an hour. forecasters have described the storm as "potentially catastrophic" and have warned of the risk of flash floods and landslides. here's willa as it hit the coastline just a few hours ago. 0ur north america correspondent, peter bowes reports. giant waves crash onto the shores of some of mexico's best—known tourist destinations. willa is one of the most dangerous storms to hit the country in recent years. popular resorts like puerto vallarta and mazatlan lie in the hurricane's path. the army's been brought in to help keep people safe, but local officials fear the worst, telling residents not to venture out. many visitors have been evacuated from their hotels to shelters.
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we didn't even know it was going to be a hurricane, we thought it was just going to be a storm. and when we checked in, they said it looks like it's going to be a three to five category hurricane. so we were just like, wow, it was kind of freaking us out. willa is weakening now, but the worst could still be to come. the authorities expect the storm surge will bring extensive flooding and instruction over a vast area. peter bowes, bbc news. authorities in rome are investigating the collapse of an escalator at a metro station, which injured at least 20 people. it's thought most of those involved were russian football fans. witnesses say some of the supporters were singing and jumping up and down before the escalator broke. lebo diseko has more. they should have been watching their teams play football. instead, they found themselves in what has been described as a scene like something from the apocalypse. most of the injured
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were russian fans cska moscow. they were in town to watch their team's uefa champions league match on tuesday night. repubblica station in the middle of rome was packed with people on their way to the game. this video shows the escalator they were on as it suddenly speeds up. travellers on the opposite side try to catch people as they fall. the escalator then comes to an abrupt stop with what looks like dozens of people crushed at the bottom. firefighters worked for about an hour to try and free people who were trapped between the metal plates of the steps. at least seven were seriously injured, one fan had to have his foot amputated. translation: the scene that we found was people piled up at the bottom of the escalator. people, one on top of the other looking for help. two investigations have been launched, one by rome's public
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prosecutor and the other by the company in charge of the city's public transport system. the task now, says rome's mayor is to try to understand how this could have happened. a warning that the uk border may not be ready to cope with a no—deal brexit — and criminal gangs could take advantage. america says it's revoking the visas of 21 saudi officials who they say were involved in the murder ofjamal khashoggi. the difficult journey of thousands of central american migrants heading north — president trump says the us is facing a national emergency. good afternoon, this is the business
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use. barclays bank have posted a surge in profits. it's because its investment banking and retail divisions picked up speed. the bank had a bumpy first half of the year, which saw barclays' profits hit by legal costs and settlements. all the numbers on mortgage lending are down according to the trade body uk finance. these are september figures compared witha year ago. the number of mortgages approved by the main high street banks, 9% lower. approvals for house purchase 10 per cent down, remortgage approvals —7.4% down. but other numbers also from uk finance show we're borrowing more but not on mortgages, a lot of it on credit cards. again these figures compare this september with last september. outstanding credit card debt is up 5.7%. actual spending on credit cards — 3.4% higher. personal borrowing through loans and overdrafts, up 2.3%. and in other news:
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more than 16,000 customers have deserted the tsb in the wake of an it meltdown earlier this year. as many as 1.9 million people were left unable to access their own money in april, after the bank tried to introduce a new computer system. the crisis resulted in the resignation of the bank's boss and an enquiry by the regulator. the financial conduct authority is still considering whether to fine the bank, after it wasjudged to have misled parliament over the issue. now if you're worried about your credit rating, paying your rent on time will help you improve it. credit reference agency experian said it was now taking account of the payment habits of 1.2 million tenants. the vast majority of those, some 79%, stand to improve their credit scores and so get better access to bank accounts, loans and mortgages. until now, most renters have not been able to prove that they are likely to meet
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their monthly mortgage payments. last year, nearly 150,000 people signed a petition demanding better recognition of tenants who pay their rent on time. that was then discussed in parliament resulting the treasury minister stephen barclay concluding that timely payments should be taken into consideration. and this may not come as a surprise to some, the good weather we've been having in europe has boosted beer sales at heineken. net profits climbed to 1.6 million euros, which will be some good news for the brewer who issued a profit warning injuly. the ftse is moving up. bouncing back from yesterday. these are the two big leaders on the ftse today. the
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pound against europe, pretty stable. that's all the business news. now it's time for a look at the weather. fine weather across much of the uk, a mixture of cloud in the sunshine. it is dry for most of us as well and it is set to stay that way for most of us for one more day. a big weather change at the end of the week. let's look at a picture from earlier today from north yorkshire. a bright, blustery day here. not as windy as it has been. but in the northern isles that are guests of 50 mph. not as much rain in scotland as there has been. best of the sunshine, the east and south east of the uk. 16, 17 degrees. stuck under the uk. 16, 17 degrees. stuck under the cloud, you are more likely to see 12 degrees. tonight, it will be more cloud from the west into the uk. some clear spells, more cloud from the west into the uk. some clearspells, patchy more cloud from the west into the uk. some clear spells, patchy rain particularly in western scotland.
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the lowest temperatures the further south you are but no frost. maybe one or two mist patches, nothing widespread. for most of us, another day just like all the widespread. for most of us, another dayjust like all the other days we have had this week. east is best for sunshine. look at the rain gathering in northern scotland, turning much wetter here into the afternoon. this isa wetter here into the afternoon. this is a weather front which is about to move south and pull away the mild air. as it moves south, here it is, no huge amounts of rain but it is opening the door to the arctic air flooding south. this is the picture for friday. many of us will be dry, there will be some sunshine around. showers around coastal spots. you will see a bit of white here, the higher you are in the hills you will see some snow. some of us higher you are in the hills you will see some snow. some of us will have temperatures into double figures. mainly coastal showers on the weekend, any land which is exposed
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to this strong northerly wind, you will see some espouse inland. there isa will see some espouse inland. there is a northerly wind. it is a cold direction, temperatures have come down to highs of single figures. last weekend we went up to 20 degrees. in the wind it will feel low to mid single figures. not unusual to see the first sign of winter coming in autumn but it will bea winter coming in autumn but it will be a bit ofa winter coming in autumn but it will be a bit of a shock to the system. the colder weather, sun, shower, hail, thunder on the hills. 0ver the colder weather, sun, shower, hail, thunder on the hills. over 90 was he a touch of frost, frost where it has been west. —— over the hills. hello, you're watching afternoon live — i'm simon mccoy.
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today at two: a warning that border controls, which will be needed if there's a no—deal brexit, may not be ready in time. if there is a border that goes up between us and the rest of europe, there are already not enough trained staff. i was hearing from big supply chain operators, telling me they need 600 additional train staff. face to face — theresa may will faces her tory critics later, as she tries to rally them behind her in the brexit negotiations. america says it's revoking the visas of 21 saudi officials who they say were involved in the murder of jamal khashoggi. betting concerns — calls to a uk—wide gambling addiction helpline have risen by more than 30% over five years. coming up on afternoon live, all the sport with katherine downes.
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