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Friends of Al Gore have secretly started assembling a campaign team in preparation for the former American vice-president to make a fresh bid for the White House. Al ore campaign team assembles in secret Al Gore is third favourite for the Democratic nomination Two members of Mr Gore's staff from his unsuccessful attempt in 2000 say they have been approached to see if they would be available to work with him again. Mr Gore, President Bill Clinton's deputy, has said he wants to concentrate on publicising the need to combat climate change, a case made in his film, An Inconvenient...

JUST hours after Al Gore was fawned over by Leonardo DiCaprio and a host of other Hollywood luminaries at this week's Academy Awards ceremony, Hillary Clinton's top advisers got together to consider how best to handle what was threatening to become a tidal wave of pressure for Gore to run for the US presidency. After careful consideration, they let it be known that they were going to continue to closely monitor Gore's weight. Several journalists were briefed on this by a "senior Clinton official" who said the Clinton team was on the lookout for any evidence that Gore is about...