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Tonight at Ten: New allegations about knowledge of phone hacking | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
inside the News of the World. Clive Goodman, the paper's former | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
Royal editor claims the practice was regularly discussed by senior | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
figures. More questions for former editor | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
Andy Coulson who became an adviser to David Cameron as MPs demand | :00:24. | :00:33. | |
answers. I can only assume this has been a | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
cover-up. This letter it is devastating. | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
And James Murdoch is among the executives who might be recalled to | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
give evidence to Parliament. We'll be asking how significant the | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
latest evidence could turn out to Also tonight: France and Germany | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
want much closer economic co- operation across the Eurozone to | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
fight the debt crisis. For inciting a riot using Facebook | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
- two men from Cheshire get four years in jail. | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
Train fares to rise by around 8% next year, boosted by higher | :00:58. | :01:08. | |
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inflation. My salary won't go up by 8%. It will cost me more. My rail | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
fare is now �4,000 a year. And, a big day for the Olympic Park | :01:18. | :01:28. | |
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as thousands of basketball fans are Good evening. | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
Phone hacking was a routine activity at the News of the World | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
and mentioned at daily meetings according to the paper's former | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
Royal editor. Clive Goodman made the claim in a letter written four | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
years ago and released today by a Parliamentary committee. It raises | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
new questions about the awareness of staff, including the former | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
editor, Andy Coulson, who was later employed by David Cameron. This | :02:10. | :02:19. | |
report by Robert Peston, contains some flash photography. | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
Clive Goodman, disgraced former Royal editor of the News of the | :02:23. | :02:31. | |
World, imprisoned in 2007, for her phone hacking. A letter he wrote in | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
2007 has returned to haunt the owner of News International. | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
Obtained by the Culture Select Committee which is investigating | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
phone hacking, Mr Goodman wrote phone hacking was widely discussed | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
in the Daily editorial conference until explicit reference to it was | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
banned by the editor. The letter refers to Tom Crone, the former | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
legal manager at News International and Andy Coulson, editor of the | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
and Andy Coulson, editor of the News of the World from 2003, to | :03:02. | :03:12. | |
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I can only assume there has been a cover-up. This letter is | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
devastating. Clive Goodman's testimony shows he believed others, | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
every member of the editorial team was aware of phone hacking and the | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
police were not told about it. it is to Andy Coulson you about | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
phone hacking, more questions will be asked about why David Cameron | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
employed him as his communications director and took him into Downing | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
Street. Andy Coulson's boss, Rupert Murdoch and James Murdoch said they | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
did not prove the extent of phone hacking until recently because of | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
advice they received in a letter from a law firm, Harbottle & Lewis. | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
And it was a bit of legal advice from senior council that was | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
provided to the company that the company rested on. What is | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
embarrassing for James Murdoch is a long report written by the relevant | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
firm of solicitors, Harbottle & Lewis for the select committee, | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
says Mr Murdoch was completely wrong to rely on their 2007 Letter | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
as being evidence there wasn't widespread wrongdoing at the News | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
of the World. Harbottle & Lewis said they did not conduct a | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
detailed, for investigation. They did a very narrow piece of work | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
relating to an employment dispute. What is equally embarrassing for | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
James Murdoch is John Chapman, the legal affairs director of News | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
International at the time, corroborates Harbottle & Lewis's | :04:45. | :04:51. | |
version of events. The question for the Murdochs is, is in time will | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
they come to be seen to have told the whole truth to the | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
Parliamentary committee? News International said tonight it | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
recognises the seriousness of materials disclose to the police | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
and Parliament and is working in an open way with the relevant | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
authorities. The News of the World may no longer be rolling off the | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
presses, but questions cannot be killed, such as why Clive Goodman's | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
letter was not immediately passed to the police by News International. | :05:19. | :05:28. | |
And Robert Peston is here now. Let's talk about the implications | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
for Andy Coulson? This letter makes a serious allegation against Andy | :05:32. | :05:40. | |
Coulson. It says on several occasions he attempted to induce | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
Clive Goodman, who was being tried for illegal phone hacking, to keep | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
his mouth shut about alleged wrongdoing by others at the News of | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
the World. And if he kept his mouth shut, says Clive Goodman in his | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
letter, Andy Coulson said he could have his job back, even if he was | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
convicted of a serious offence. Andy Coulson is not speaking | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
tonight, his lawyer say he does not want to make a statement at this | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
stage. But certainly, this allegation goes to the heart of his | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
claim that he didn't know about wider wrongdoing and that carried | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
out by Clive Goodman. And of course, it will again put pressure on the | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
Prime Minister to explain why he did not dig deeper about precisely | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
what Andy Coulson you and went about wrongdoing at the News of the | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
World. Because Andy Coulson ended up working for the Prime Minister. | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
Let's look at the broader picture. The implications for News | :06:39. | :06:45. | |
International and to Rupert and Robert Murdoch? Another disclosure | :06:45. | :06:53. | |
tonight is Clive Goodman, convicted of other serious crime, imprisons | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
received �244,000 after he was imprisoned from News International. | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
We have also learned, Les Hinton who ran News International wanted | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
to give him only a year's salary and he said at the time, which | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
would have been �90,000 - he said he was lucky to get back because in | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
his view he was guilty of gross negligence. In those circumstances, | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
people will wonder why on earth they paid in �244,000. People will | :07:21. | :07:31. | |
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ask if it was to keep his mouth Who recently explained why there | :07:32. | :07:38. | |
wasn't a thorough row investigation at News Of The World by citing a | :07:38. | :07:47. | |
letter produced a letter. There was no detailed investigation carried | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
out by them that led to that letter and people within News | :07:50. | :07:56. | |
International knew that letter could not be relied upon in any way. | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
As evidence there was not wider wrongdoing. Tonight, the story has | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
moved on from the hacking story into big questions about whether | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
there was an extensive cover up at News International and who knew | :08:10. | :08:17. | |
about it if there was a cover up. Thank you. | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
France and Germany have called for much closer economic integration | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
within the eurozone to deal with the ongoing debt crisis. Chancellor | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
Merkel and President Sarkozy meeting in Paris today, talked of | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
creating true economic governance involving the 17 countries which | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
share the euro. Pressure has increased after the latest figures | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
show economic growth has more or less stalled across the zone, | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
including in Germany. Let's join Gavin Hewitt in Paris tonight. | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
Many people have said of the eurozone, you can't have monetary | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
union with fiscal union. That's coordination of taxation and | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
spending. They haven't quite got it yet. Chancellor Merkel and | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
President Sarkozy today signalled there would be much closer economic | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
integration of the eurozone. The two key leaders of the eurozone | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
met in Paris today, knowing they needed to restore confidence in | :09:13. | :09:23. | |
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their ability to fix Europe's debt But the day began with some | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
discouraging news - Germany, the engine room of the eurozone with a | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
stellar manufacturing sector, saw its growth sharply reduced. | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
Everybody was expecting Germany would have a good year. So we are | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
deeply surprised and concerned about the German figures. In the | :09:46. | :09:52. | |
past three months Germany any manage growth of 0.1%, and French | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
growth is currently stagnant. For the eurozone as a whole, growth is | :09:55. | :10:04. | |
bumping along at just 0.2%. When Chancellor Angela Merkel met it | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
with President Sarkozy, they agreed far-reaching changes to the | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
eurozone. There will be much closer economic integration, including | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
limits on debt. Although many details are missing, the French | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
President spoke of economic governance, with an elected | :10:20. | :10:27. | |
President. TRANSLATION: A first proposal is to | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
create an economic Government for the eurozone. They will meet twice | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
a year and more often if necessary. It will elect a stable President | :10:36. | :10:42. | |
that 2.5 years. Some have argued the only way out of the crisis was | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
for a country debts become Corran European debt with Germany acting | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
as the main guarantor. But Angela Merkel dismissed what are being | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
called Euro bombs for the time being. | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
TRANSLATION: The real question is what is best for overcoming the | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
crisis. Over and over again people are looking for one fix that will | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
sort everything and lift us out of the crisis. That is why people are | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
urging Euro bombs. Despite all of the talk about greater control and | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
supervision of the eurozone economies, one big question | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
remained unanswered. What happens if a major economy get into | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
difficulty? How will it be helped and rescued? And the two leaders | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
meeting today made it clear there would be no new money for the | :11:31. | :11:37. | |
current rescue fund. Make no mistake, these proposals are a step | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
towards a closer union, sovereignty will be surrendered. What was on | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
offer today was a long-term political plan, not an answer to | :11:46. | :11:53. | |
Europe's current debt crisis. All of this got a mixed reception, the | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
consensus was it happens to defuse the crisis. Why? This is because | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
markets and investors are focused on debt, low growth and a fragile | :12:02. | :12:09. | |
banking system, and not much was said about any of those today. | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
Two men from Cheshire have each been jailed for four years for | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
using the internet to incite people to take part in last week's riots. | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
The sentencing took place as the Government announced plans to | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
increase police powers in England and Wales, including the | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
possibility of curfews, as our correspondent, Chris Buckler, | :12:23. | :12:33. | |
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reports. An invitation to a riot, delivered | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
on Facebook. An online crime judges are taking seriously. Warrington | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
man, Perry Sutcliffe Keenan was jailed at Chester Crown Court for | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
four years for inciting disorder on a social networking sites. He is | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
not the only one. In a separate case at the same court, Jordan | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
Blackshaw was sent to prison, again in connection with a riot that | :12:57. | :13:04. | |
never took place. An event was created on Facebook called smashed | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
down and gave a date, a time and the place to meet, at the back of | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
the McDonald's restaurant. His family did not want to talk, other | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
than saying they were upset. Among neighbours there were shocked at | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
the length of the sentence. years, just for putting it on | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
Facebook. If he had gone and done it and rioting in Northwich, he | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
would have deserved it. But not just for putting it on Facebook. | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
think they are using it as an example. Concerns about social | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
networking be used to organise trouble have been of concern. The | :13:39. | :13:46. | |
Met Police learned of de -- trouble at Oxford Street, and the Olympic | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
site through blackberry Messenger and considered closing the services | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
down. A guided contemplate seeking the authority to switch it off. The | :13:56. | :14:04. | |
legality is very questionable. That question of what more could | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
have been done to stop this destruction is still being asked | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
and the Government is considering giving the police new powers, | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
including the ability to impose a curfew. Should it be possible to | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
impose a curfew across the geographical area and have extra | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
powers for curfews for people under 16. The Home Secretary's proposals | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
did attract a good deal of support in Salford. But there is a divide | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
in opinion between the generations. Or you see now is young kids on | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
corners with bottles and drinking. You did not see that years ago. | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
What do you think about the idea of a curfew? I don't think it should | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
happen. But if things are being smashed up. You stick up for the | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
police. I'm not, the police are there to do a job! In these | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
communities the focus is on repair and retribution. The Government | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
says it shouldn't the army cadets doing this work in the future, it | :15:05. | :15:11. | |
should be those responsible for doing the damage. | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
The cost of living rose again last month, for rent, cloves and | :15:16. | :15:22. | |
financial services. The CBI was up 4.4% and the persistently higher | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
rate is to have a significant impact on rail passengers. Most | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
regulated fares in England, including season tickets are to be | :15:29. | :15:35. | |
increased by the Government by 3% above inflation by January. Richard | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
Scott's report on the changes and the reaction. | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
We take over a billion journeys a year on railways, travelling on | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
21,000 miles of track across Britain for holidays, business | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
trips and commuting. Regulated fares light season tickets go up by | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
July's RPI inflation plus 3%. So the average season ticket next year | :15:59. | :16:05. | |
will go up by 8%. Train companies can increase some furs by another | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
5%, for a rise of up to 13% as long as they balance that with | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
reductions elsewhere. Both those increases are lot more than the | :16:13. | :16:19. | |
average rise of a wage increase of 2.1%. My salary won't go up by 8%, | :16:19. | :16:26. | |
so it will cost me more. It is disgraceful. I come from Salisbury | :16:26. | :16:33. | |
every day and my rail fare is now �4,900 a year. There are exceptions, | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
passengers on ScotRail and Arriva Trains Wales will see fares go up | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
by an average of 6%. The overall rise will see a typical season- | :16:42. | :16:51. | |
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ticket of around �2,000 goes up by We're concerned that people be | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
forced back onto our roads and we could see more emissions, more | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
congestion as a result of price rises. There could be some evidence | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
of that. This company says people are switching to coaches because | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
trains are too expensive. The cost of the railways is split between | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
taxpayers and fare payers. If one pays more, the other could pay less. | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
Because rail fares have been going up over the last few years by more | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
than inflation and because more people are travelling by trains the | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
fare contribution has gone up to �6.6 billion. That's allowed the | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
taxpayer contribution to fall from �6.3 billion to �4 billion. The | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
extra money from the fare rises revealed today is passed on to the | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
Government. This is a difficult decision, a decision we didn't have | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
to take, but we simply didn't have a choice. If we were going to | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
deliver the improvements passengers are calling for, and do that in a | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
way which doesn't jeopardise our plan for reducing deficit, we had | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
to ask passengers to pay more. campaigners point out that although | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
fare rises are happening now, the projects like cross-rail and Thames | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
link, which those increases pay for, won't be finished until nearly the | :18:04. | :18:11. | |
end of the decade. Coming up tonight: I'll be | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
reporting from the very top of one of the largest wind turbines in the | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
world. It's just been built in the Irish Sea and I'll ask are these | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
giant structures the right things to give Britain its energy in the | :18:24. | :18:33. | |
future? Representatives of the Gaddafi | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
regime and some rebel figures are reported to have take be part -- | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
part in talks in recent days in tuenizya. The reports came as | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
senior figures in the US Government said Gaddafi's days were numbered | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
and NATO said the rebels were succeeding in cutting supply lines | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
to the regime. Our Middle East editor, Jeremy Bowen, is in Tunisia | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
tonight with the latest. What do you make of these reports? | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
Westminster, there's quite a bit of diplomatic -- well, there's quite a | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
bit of diplomatic activity going on but not a great deal of achievement. | :19:05. | :19:11. | |
On a holiday island, Venezuelan envoys have been going between a | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
delegation from Tripoli, including apparently the gas minister, local | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
sources say and opposition group. As well as that, the UN secretary- | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
general's envoy has been in town. He's been talking to the Tunisians. | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
To show how hard this job is, he's been doing it for about three | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
months. He's been to Tripoli seven times. He's been shuttling between | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
the two sides and they're no closer together. The sticking point seems | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
to be the same thing, which is the Libyan Government have been putting | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
out feelers for a deal. They'd love a deal. But it's one that Colonel | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
Gaddafi in some guise stays. The starting point for the rebels and | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
they're NATO backers is that king has to go and then maybe they can | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
talk about -- king -- Colonel Gaddafi has to go and then they can | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
talk about deals. So it's pretty clear that the question of who | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
rules Libya will be decided by the Civil War and not by diplomacy. | :20:06. | :20:12. | |
Thank you very much. Jeremy Bowen in Tunisia tonight. | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
NPower is the latest company to announce a sharp rise in | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
electricity prices by more than 7%, prompting more debate about | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
sourcing our energy in the years to come. Around a quarter of the UK's | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
electricity is meant to come from offshore wind power in the next ten | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
years. But it is a very expensive project, which could mean even | :20:31. | :20:37. | |
higher bills. David Shukman reports from | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
Britain's newest windfarm off the coast of Cumbria. | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
Forest of wind turbines arising off Britain's shores, this is the | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
Government's great hope for green energy. But building these thing sz | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
a real challenge. You need a special vessel like this. It can | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
stand on the sea bed and lift itself up. We watched the process | :20:56. | :21:02. | |
unfolding. A crane winchs each component into | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
place. This is a section of the tower. Waiting for it are | :21:07. | :21:13. | |
construction workers ready with the huge bolts to hold it in place. All | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
this makes planting wind turbines at sea very expensive. The machines | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
are more out of the way than on land, but the cost gets passed onto | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
consumers, already facing rising bills. It's true to say that | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
offshore wind is relatively expensive right now. It will come | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
doub in the next ten or 20 years. One of the great benefits is it's | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
home grown electricity. It's late evening, but the work keeps going | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
as they enter a critical phase, lifting the giant set of blades off | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
the deck. They're now angling this huge rotor so that it's in the | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
right position to be hoisted right up and fitted to the very top of | :21:51. | :21:59. | |
the tower. Nice and slow. metres up a tiny figure leans out | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
as the rotor gets close. Down on deck, they cling to the tip of a | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
blade, the biggest danger, ironically, is a sudden gust of | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
wind. Then the final approach. This is one of the largest turbines in | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
the world. Just before midnight the job is done. Off the coast of | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
Cumbria, this windfarm has 30 turbines, but even when they're | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
this big, you'd still need 200 of them to match the electricity | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
produced by a conventional power station and only when the wind | :22:29. | :22:37. | |
blows. Here goes with one of the longest ladders in history, I'm | :22:37. | :22:44. | |
sure. Inside it's a very long journey to the top. I'm hooked on | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
for safety. The technicians who work here have to be specially | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
trained and they need a head for heights. When you're this high up | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
and this far out in the ocean, it is generally pretty windy, like | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
today, ideal when this insulation is complete for shifting these | :23:01. | :23:07. | |
giant blades and making electricity. But when you look at the sheer size | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
of this great structure and think about the cost and challenge of | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
building it, the question is is the Government right to want thousands | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
more of these things right around our shores? | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
This is an expensive way of reducing carbon emissions. Let's | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
get serious about climate change. Let's really do things about global | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
warming. Let's not pretend that by building lots of windfarms we're | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
making a major contribution. The Government says pioneering wind | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
technology at sea will create jobs, cut carbon emissions and take | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
advantage of being an island nation. But the price will be high and it's | :23:46. | :23:56. | |
only just starting. Just under a year to go until the | :23:56. | :23:58. | |
start of the Olympic Games in London, the first test event has | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
been held at the main site in East London. People have been allowed | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
into the basketball arena in the Olympic Park in Stratford to watch | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
a series of match being so that organisers can spot any potential | :24:10. | :24:16. | |
problems. David Bond was there. Another important milestone for | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
London 2012, British basketball's first game in their new home and | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
the first competitive action on the Olympic Park. For those fan who's | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
paid for the privilege to be here, it was also a chance to get a | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
better idea of how the London Olympics will feel. So this is what | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
greets you upon arrival at the Olympic Park, airport-style | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
security with metal detectors, bag scans and body searches. Security | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
officials say they don't want to spoil the fan experience, but with | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
the Olympics such an obvious target for terrorists, security has to be | :24:51. | :24:58. | |
a priority. It's all new territory for Great Britain's basketball | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
players too. Team GB haven't entered the Olympics since 1948. | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
The sport it hoping to capitalise on the interest generated at next | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
year's Games. The fans will come. Demographic will be there and will | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
appeal to some of the younger generation who will see a sport | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
that is fairly unknown to them. They'll be able to tell their | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
friends, hey I think I want to pick up a different sport. Despite | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
spending �42 million on this arena it won't provide a lasting physical | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
legacy, not for London any way. After Games it will be torn down | :25:29. | :25:36. | |
and sold off. Over the last month, London has hosted a series of Test | :25:36. | :25:40. |