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Gavin Grey: UK Correspondent gives an update on the Liverpool car ramming · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Kevin Gray are uk eure a correspondent given good morning
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  Speaker 1: to you. Uncomfortable questions for the police after How on
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  Speaker 1: earth when you know there's going to be a big
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  Speaker 1: parade like this, how on earth a car gets through
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  Speaker 1: a crowded people.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we've had an update on a second press conference
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  Speaker 2: there Ryan about of course, those who are out on
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  Speaker 2: the streets of Liverpool in Northwest England celebrating Liverpool Football
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  Speaker 2: Club's Premiership title and as you said, car managed to
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  Speaker 2: get right into the city center in an area that
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  Speaker 2: was closed off to vehicles. Well, today at this second
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  Speaker 2: press conference, we've had an update on the number of
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  Speaker 2: people who went to hospital. That was twenty seven yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's said fifty people were treated at hospitals. Eleven
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  Speaker 2: remain in hospital but are in a stable condition and
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  Speaker 2: recovering well. I guess those are probably people that walked
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  Speaker 2: in as well as were taken by ambulance. Anyway, we're
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  Speaker 2: also being told that a suspect is from the West
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  Speaker 2: Derby area of Liverpool and has been arrested on suspicion
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  Speaker 2: of attempting murder, dangerous driving offenses and driving while unfit
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  Speaker 2: through drugs. He's a fifty three year old British ban
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  Speaker 2: who was believed to be local. Now about that car
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  Speaker 2: getting into this area, well, we were told that there
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  Speaker 2: was quote a robust traffic management plan in place, So
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  Speaker 2: how did the car get in? Well, they're working on
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  Speaker 2: the theory that the driver of the Ford Galaxy car
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  Speaker 2: that crashed into so many people was able to follow
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  Speaker 2: an ambulance that had gone to the area to treat
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  Speaker 2: somebody with a suspected heart attack and the roadblock was
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  Speaker 2: temporarily lifted and the driver of the Ford Galaxy apparently
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  Speaker 2: followed them through.
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  Speaker 1: Goodness, mate, that makes you sick, doesn't it. Now. KFC
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  Speaker 1: has announced planes to create seven thousand new jobs across
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  Speaker 1: the UK. What's with that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well it's International Burger Day today actually for you guys,
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  Speaker 2: twenty eighth of May. But Kentucky Fried Chicken is certainly
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  Speaker 2: making all the headlines here in the UK with the
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  Speaker 2: creation seven thousand new jobs and a one point five
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  Speaker 2: billion pounds so about three point three billion New Zealand
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  Speaker 2: dollar investment over five years in UK and Ireland. It's
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  Speaker 2: getting a very competitive market, the chicken market, because there's
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  Speaker 2: new kids on the block. Popeyes, famed for catering for
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  Speaker 2: the singer Beyonce and rapper Jay Z's wedding in two
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  Speaker 2: thousand and nine and others as well coming into this
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  Speaker 2: fast food particular outlet in the UK. It's a massive,
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  Speaker 2: massive market, with UK spending almost six billion New Zealand
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  Speaker 2: dollars on fried chicken from fast food shops in the
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  Speaker 2: year to the twentieth of April. It's big business and
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  Speaker 2: that's why Kentucky Fried Chicken, looking at more sites and
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  Speaker 2: more people being employed, asked whether there were those people
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  Speaker 2: ready to fill the vacancies. Absolutely, and indeed there are
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  Speaker 2: a number of people here in the UK, not in
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  Speaker 2: education or training or studying who could certainly fit the bell.
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  Speaker 1: I see you've had an upgrade from the IMF on
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  Speaker 1: your growth forecast too, so that little plan to it too,
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  Speaker 1: no doubt, Gavin, Thank you for that, Gavin Gray.
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