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Baftas 2011: The winners



Martin Freeman took best supporting actor for his performance in BBC1's Sherlock - with the show also taking the hotly-contested drama series award



Vicky McClure, who played Lol in This is England '86, won the leading actress Bafta



Daniel Rigby, who played a young Eric Morecambe in the Victoria Wood-produced Eric and Ernie, took the Bafta for leading actor



Steve Coogan took the Bafta for male performance in a comedy programme for his role in BBC2's The Trip

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Jo Brand won the Bafta for female performance in a comedy programme for Getting On



Graham Norton took the Bafta for best entertainment performance



Tom Hollander, star of Rev, holds the show's Bafta for situation comedy

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Sir David Attenborough with the award for best specialist factual programme, which went to Flying Monsters 3D



ITV2's "reality drama" The Only Way Is Essex won the YouTube Audience Award, which is voted for by the public



The EastEnders production team and actors with the continuing drama award



Sir Trevor McDonald received a Bafta fellowship



The team behind Hugh's Fish Fight – Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstallm, Will Anderson, Frankie Fathers, and Andrew Palmer – which took the features Bafta

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Phillip Schofield with the Bafta for entertainment programme, which went to ITV1's The Cube, which he presents



Members of the ITV News team celebrate with their award for news coverage



Peter Bennett Jones, co-creator of Comic Relief, won the Bafta Special Award



The team behind BBC4's Zimbabwe's Forgotten Children – Jezza Neumann, Deborah Shipley, Brian Woods and Zoliswa Sithole – with their current affairs Bafta

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The stage at the Royal Festival Hall in London is filled with grand pianos for Lang Lang Inspires, in which the Chinese piano star plays alongside 100 outstanding young British pianists

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Bullets casings are seen where a sniper loyal to Muammar Gaddafi took position during a fierce battle with rebels on Tripoli street in central Misrata May 22, 2011. Residents of the battle-scarred city of Misrata in west Libya searched for food from poorly stocked shops on Sunday and rebels stripped weapons from the carcasses of Gaddafi's armor. Distant blasts rumbled through the eerily quiet roads of Misrata, Libya's third biggest city and the scene of some of the fiercest fighting since an uprising began in mid-February.



Anti-government protesters wave the national flag during a ceremony commemorating the anniversary of Yemen's reunification, in Sanaa May 22, 2011. Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh was due to sign a pact on Sunday to become the third Arab leader ousted this year by protests, under stronger diplomatic pressure this time after twice backing out at the last minute.

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A demonstrator kicks a tear gas canister during an anti-government rally in Valparaiso city May 21, 2011.



A man prays for victims at a make-shift altar for those who were killed by March 11th's earthquake and tsunami at a devastated area in Natori, north of Japan, May 21, 2011. Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan, South Korea's President Lee Myung-bak and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao meet for a summit this weekend in Tokyo to show unity as Japan tries to rebuild after a massive earthquake and tsunami in March.

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South Korean President Lee Myung-bak pray for the victims at the area which was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, May 21, 2011. Lee, Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan and Chinese premier Wen Jiabao huddle for their trilateral summit in this week-end to discuss cooperation in general, disaster management and nuclear safety



Demonstrators embrace as they camp out in La Constitucion square during a protest in Malaga, southern Spain early May 21, 2011. Tens of thousands of Spaniards protested for a sixth day on Friday in cities all over the country, and the government looked unlikely to enforce a ban on the demonstrations, fearing clashes. Dubbed "los indignados" (the indignant), the protesters have filled the main squares of Spain's cities for six days, in a wave of outrage over economic stagnation and government austerity marking a shift after years of patience

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Yingluck Shinawatra (centre, L), toppled premier Thaksin Shinawatra's sister and the prime ministerial candidate for country's biggest opposition Pheu Thai Party, is welcomed by supporters at Doi Suthep temple in Chiang Mai May 21, 2011. Twenty-six political parties signed up on Thursday to take part in a July general election in Thailand that is expected to be close and could open a new, tumultuous chapter in a power struggle that has dogged the country for more than five years.



A woman argues with a policeman during a candlelight vigil held as a tribute to the slain security guards at Cafe Iguana bar in downtown Monterrey May 22, 2011. Gunmen killed four persons, two of them security guards, and injured another three during an attack early Sunday outside the popular Cafe Iguana bar in the tourist area known as Barrio Antiguo, local media reported. Hitmen had returned to the site and later carried off three of the four bodies just as police and journalists were at the scene.

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England's Gary Hunt competes in the final of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2011 at Vouliagmeni lake southeast of Athens May 22, 2011.



A woman holds the national flag during a parade at a celebration by anti-government protesters commemorating the anniversary of Yemen's reunification, in Sanaa May 22, 2011. Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh was due to sign a pact on Sunday to become the third Arab leader ousted this year by protests, under stronger diplomatic pressure this time after twice backing out at the last minute.

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A Ugandan peacekeeper from the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) takes a rest during fighting between Somalia government soldiers and Islamist insurgents near the main Bakara market in the capital Mogadishu, May 21, 2011



Nicolas Colsaerts of Belgium and his caddie study the fairway on the 17th hole during the semi-final of the Volvo World Match Play Championship golf tournament in Casares May 22, 2011.

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A Somali government soldier runs to take up position as they battle against Islamist insurgents near the main Bakara market in the capital Mogadishu May 21, 2011.



Mannequins are seen outside destroyed shops in Tripoli street in central Misrata May 22, 2011. The city has sustained heavy damage in fierce fighting between rebels and Gaddafi forces, and most shops are still closed and streets are largely empty.

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Movistar rider Tondo killed in car incident



Spanish Movistar Team rider Xavier Tondo was killed on Monday when he was involved in an incident with a garage door on his way to training near Granada, his team said.

"The 32-year-old Catalan rider was in his car on the way to training when he suffered the incident with the door of the garage," the team said in a statement on their website (www.movistarteam.com).

More information would be published when it became available, the statement added.

Tondo had an impressive 2010 season, winning a stage on the Paris-Nice race and finishing sixth in the Tour of Spain. He won the 2011 Tour of Castilla and Leon.

Earlier this year, he blew the whistle on a doping ring when he alerted authorities after receiving emails in which he was offered banned substances.

Movistar said they would not withdraw their team from the Giro d'Italia, which resumes on Tuesday after a rest day.

"We decided the best thing to do would be to honour Xavi on the bike," team manager Eusebio Unzue said in a media release

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Ian Poulter wins a scrappy all-English World Match Play Championship 2&1 against Luke Donald in Spain

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The Russian Soyuz TMA-20 space capsule lands about 150 km south-east of the Kazakh town of Dzhezkazgan on May 24, 2011. A Soyuz space capsule carrying an Italian, a Russian and an American back from the International Space Station (ISS) has landed safely in Kazakhstan, Russian mission control said.



Russian space agency rescue team help U.S. astronaut Cady Coleman leave the capsule after Soyuz capsule's landing about 93 miles south-east of the Kazakh town of Dzhezkazgan, Tuesday, May 24, 2011. The Soyuz capsule carrying Italian, American and Russian back to Earth from the International Space Station landed safely in Kazakhstan on Tuesday.

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The eruption of the Grimsvotn volcano sends thousands of tonnes of volcanic ash into the sky on May 23, 2011 above Iceland. The cloud has forced the closure of Icelandic airspace and spread fears of a repeat of the global travel chaos that was caused by last year's Icelandic eruption, although authorities inisist that this Grimsvotn poses a lesser threat.

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Belarusian drivers wait in a queue to fill their tanks with fuel a petrol station before a price hike in Minsk, Monday, May 23, 2011. Prices of fuel will rise up to 20 percent by Tuesday, according to local media reports.



Customers pass by empty shelves in an electronic equipment shop in Minsk, Belarus, 23 May 2011. Booming demand for certain commodities and growing prices at Belarussian shops result from instability on the currency market.



People queue up to buy foreign currency outside an exchange office of Belarusbank in Minsk May 23, 2011. The Belarussian rouble strengthened on the interbank market on Monday, bankers said, extending gains made last week after the government announced asset sale plans and Russia said Minsk could get a loan in June.

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A member of a rescue team checks on a farmer near to Kirkjubaearklaustur, approx. 260 km from Reykjavik, Iceland, Monday, May 23, 2011. A dense cloud of ash from an Icelandic volcano was being blown toward Scotland Monday, forcing two airlines to cancel their flights, U.S. President Barack Obama to cut short his visit to Ireland and carriers across Europe to fear a repeat of the huge disruptions that stranded millions of passengers a year ago.

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Death toll rises to 116 in Missouri tornado

Ashley Stephens holds a ferret she rescued from the home of a missing woman while helping a friend collect belongings Monday, May 23 in Joplin, Mo.

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A sign at the entrance to Bryant Park notifies visitors of a new smoking ban May 23 in New York City. A new smoking law took effect in New York City Monday, prohibiting smokers from lighting up in certain public places including parks and beaches.

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A woman puts her hands on the cheeks of U.S. President Barack Obama after he spoke at College Green in Dublin May 23. Obama sipped a pint of stout and cuddled babies on Monday as a tiny Irish village on Monday welcomed home "a long lost cousin" with an outpouring of affection. Hoisting a glass of Guinness at Ollie Hayes pub as fiddle music played, Obama thus began a four-nation tour of Europe with a celebration of his ancestral roots.

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Forestry School graduate Christopher Kieran, of Philadelphia, wears a decorated mortarboard during commencement at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., Monday, May 23.

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The Cheetah Hunt coaster at Busch Gardens, Tampa, Fla. Busch Gardens is touting its new Cheetah Hunt roller coaster that uses the force of repelling magnets to launch riders from zero to 60 mph in a matter of seconds, three different times during the ride. Opening this summer, Cheetah Hunt will be the longest of the park’s coasters with 4,429 feet of track.

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Severe storms pound US



City surveyor Tony Moon works on a makeshift levee on the edge of the flooding Mississippi River with the temporarily shuttered Isle of Capri riverboat casino behind him, Friday, May 20 in Natchez, Miss. The river was forecast to crest at 62.1 feet, the highest level in Natchez recorded history.



Haley English, 7, cries into the arms of her mother, Naomi English, as she looks toward her submerged house in Vicksburg, Miss., on May 20.








































Brenda Hynum hugs her daughter Debra Emery as they watch floodwaters rise around Emery's mobile home in Vicksburg, Miss.,. A sand berm around the trailer failed in the night and floodwaters from the rising Mississippi river rushed in. "We tried so hard to stop it. It goes from anger to utter disbelief that this could happen. I just want to go home," Emery said.









Houseboats are secured to a tree on the Atchafalaya River, in Henderson, La



Mary Williams, right, looks on as family members pack the contents of her home, where she has lived since 1948, during a mandatory evacuation order, May 15, in Krotz Springs, La.

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