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A young mother becomes the first British woman to be found guilty | :00:07. | :00:09. | |
Tareena Shakil spent three months in the IS stronghold of Raqqa before | :00:10. | :00:25. | |
returning to the UK, where she was arrested. | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
She took her toddler with her and posted pictures of him | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
She told police she'd been duped into going. | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
It was never my intention to enter into Syria. | :00:35. | :00:36. | |
She was also found guilty of encouraging terror and will be | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
REPORTER: Have you got a fair deal for Britain, | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
No agreement yet in Brussels, as David Cameron says their latest | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
offer in his EU renegotiations is not good enough. | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
They're state of the art, but they keep breaking down. | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
The BBC uncovers problems with the Royal Navy's | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
The cult leader who kept his daughter a prisoner in London for 30 | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
Well, I hated the violence in the place and the sense | :01:04. | :01:10. | |
And the last Land Rover Defender rolls off the production line | :01:11. | :01:25. | |
as the iconic vehicle's 70-year journey comes to an end. | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
Later on BBC London: He's promised a fare freeze, | :01:29. | :01:30. | |
but Transport for London say Sadiq Khan's numbers don't add up. | :01:31. | :01:32. | |
And fresh controversy over the Garden Bridge | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
after Boris Johnson is accused of misleading the public. | :01:36. | :01:54. | |
A young mother has become the first British woman to be convicted | :01:55. | :02:02. | |
of travelling to Syria to join the Islamic State group. | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
26-year-old Tareena Shakil, a former health worker, | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
ran away with her toddler in October 2014. | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
She was arrested when she returned to the UK four months later. | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
The jury at Birmingham Crown Court also found her guilty of encouraging | :02:18. | :02:19. | |
Our correspondent Sian Lloyd reports from Birmingham. | :02:20. | :02:28. | |
Tareena Shakil, she had been a bright student leaving school with | :02:29. | :02:36. | |
A-levels, a job in healthcare and was studying to better her career. | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
Her life had been here in the Sparkbrook area of Birmingham, with | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
her husband and toddler son. But around the same time as her marriage | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
broke down she began to change. Online she added the black IS flag | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
to her Facebook page. The jury was told she began chat ing with a | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
prominent IS member and began writing her own messages of support, | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
here urging people to take up arms, a direct encouragement of act of | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
terror. This is the 26-year-old at East Midlands Airport on her way to | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
Turkey, her stepping stone to Syria. Syria. When she was arrested on her | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
return she claimed she had been kidnapped by a man while on holiday | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
there. It was never my intention to enter into Syria. Whilst being on | :03:23. | :03:31. | |
holiday I happened to meet a young turkish man. I liked him and we | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
developed a relationship. But her journey to the heart of | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
IS-controlled territory had been made of her own free will. She lived | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
with her son amidst the fighting for three months. The jury was shown | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
this picture found on her phone. Her young son playing close to an | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
assault rifle. She chatted with her family on the messaging site | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
WhatsApp, explaining that although women couldn't fight she had her own | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
gun. There were photos of her with weapons. A few weeks into her life | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
in Raqqa she sent her family this picture, her son dressed in IS | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
clothing. She wore a similar balaclava herself. During one | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
messaging exchange, she said she wanted to die as a martyr in Syria, | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
and urged her 12-year-old brother to join her there. During the trial, | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
Tareena Shakil had said going to Syria had been a mistake. She had | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
simply wanted to live under Sharia law. She described how she had | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
escaped in a taxi, making the final dash for the Turkish border on foot, | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
carrying her son and his bag of nappies with her. I said, stop the | :04:43. | :04:51. | |
car, stop the car. I threw 9,000 Syrian dollars at him, grabbed my | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
Pampers, everything in this bag, grabbed the blanket and ran. One | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
kilometre is nothing. I just ran, ran, ran. She described herself as a | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
victim, but police said she was a real threat to the UK. The court's | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
been really clear. Clear. They've found her guilty of being a member | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
of IS. IS is a really dangerous organisation and at the moment she | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
should be treated as a dangerous individual. The jury was unanimous | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
in finding Tareena Shakil guilty. She will be sentenced on Monday. | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
Tareena Shakil was convicted of being a member of IS, an extremely | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
serious charge. But some 56 women left Britain for Syria last year, | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
counter-terrorism officers don't know what's happened to them and | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
they are increasingly concerned by the number. They are urging anyone | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
who fears family member may be planning on going to Syria to get in | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
touch with them before it is too late. | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
David Cameron says the latest offer from Brussels, | :05:59. | :06:00. | |
during his negotiations for reform of Britain's relationship | :06:01. | :06:02. | |
He wants a four-year ban on migrants accessing in-work benefits | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
They're offering what's called an 'emergency brake' - | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
a temporary ban on benefits - which would have to be voted | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
Our correspondent, Ben Wright, reports from Brussels. | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
David Cameron wants to convince you he can limit the number of EU | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
But he needs to convince this man, the commission | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
President Jean-Claude Juncker, to give Britain that right. | :06:33. | :06:33. | |
REPORTER: Have you got a fair deal for Britain, | :06:34. | :06:35. | |
These are critical days for David Cameron's EU renegotiation. | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
There's a key summit of EU leaders in three weeks' time | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
but after hearing Mr Juncker's latest plans on migration | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
and welfare, Mr Cameron said there was more to do. | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
For a long time I've said we've got to have a system where you don't get | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
benefits out of the system until you pay in to our system. | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
We want to end the idea of something for nothing. | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
It's not good enough, it needs more work, | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
David Cameron says Britain's benefits are a big draw to EU | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
workers, who can top up their pay using tax credits. | :07:12. | :07:13. | |
He has asked for a four-year ban, and now the European Commission has | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
come up with a plan, a so-called emergency brake. | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
According to a senior EU source, the UK, or any EU country, | :07:20. | :07:28. | |
could apply to stop paying benefits to EU workers if it | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
thinks its benefits system is under a big strain. | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
But that would only be given the go-ahead if a majority | :07:36. | :07:37. | |
And under this proposal, the brake could only be used once | :07:38. | :07:44. | |
Legally and politically this is very difficult territory. | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
Any plan would need the agreement of all EU countries, | :07:52. | :07:53. | |
and today Poland's Foreign Minister said the country would not accept | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
any measure to denied benefits to Poles living in the EU. | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
But from Germany a strong willingness to help. | :08:03. | :08:04. | |
TRANSLATION: We will do everything in our powers to keep Britain | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
as a member of the EU, but of course it's the British | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
Since the election, David Cameron has been racking up the air miles | :08:14. | :08:21. | |
visiting Europe's capitals to sell his case. | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
But his package of EU reforms needs to fly at home too, | :08:25. | :08:32. | |
and some in his party were despairing of this latest idea. | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
They are saying we are allowed to go to Brussels and ask | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
their Commissioner to change our benefit rules, | :08:41. | :08:42. | |
Before Mr Cameron left Brussels he dropped | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
by the European Parliament to see its President, | :08:47. | :08:47. | |
We are prepared to negotiate and to discuss, but whatever should | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
be the outcome, it must be in line with European rules. | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
There's a sense of the UK renegotiation building to a finale. | :08:56. | :08:57. | |
There's a key summit of EU leaders here next month, | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
but today showed how much there is to do in a very short time, | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
and Number Ten are stressing they won't take any old deal | :09:05. | :09:06. | |
The Royal Navy has six state of the art destroyers - | :09:07. | :09:14. | |
each cost ?1 billion but they keep breaking down. | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
Now the Type 45 destroyers will need to be fitted with new generators. | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
BBC News has seen an email from a serving naval officer | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
who claims the repair work will cost tens of millions of pounds. | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
Our defence correspondent Jonathan Beale has the story. | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
It's billed as one of the most advanced warships in the world. | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
The Royal Navy's Type 45 destroyer, fitted with sophisticated | :09:42. | :09:43. | |
Each ship costing more than ?1 billion. | :09:44. | :09:51. | |
But it has had one big problem that the Navy's tried to keep quiet. | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
The BBC was sent this e-mail from a serving officer. | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
He says, why has the Royal Navy found itself with only six | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
He goes on, total electrical failures are common, | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
leaving the ship at the mercy of the sea or enemy. | :10:07. | :10:15. | |
A few years ago I joined HMS Dauntless, on her first voyage | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
and fire at multiple targets from this control room. | :10:19. | :10:29. | |
They can even track an object the size of, say, a tennis ball, | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
travelling at more than twice the speed of sound. | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
But what we can't show was what happened when the power | :10:36. | :10:44. | |
problem that's alarmed former senior officers. | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
What is catastrophic is, if while you are on task, | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
you have an incident where you suddenly lose all power. | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
If you are actually involved in action, that can mean the death | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
When you're not in action it's just very, very embarrassing, | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
and makes people think, what on earth has become | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
The problem is deep in the bowels of the ship. | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
Two generators linked to gas turbine engines don't provide enough power. | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
The fix will be to install another generator, but it will mean cutting | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
open the ship's hull to fit it in and it could cost tens | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
After decades of cuts, the Royal Navy's fleet has | :11:24. | :11:31. | |
already shrunk to just 19 frigates and destroyers. | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
Now a third of those warships - the newest - will need to be fixed. | :11:36. | :11:44. | |
A Maoist cult leader who kept his daughter as a slave | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
in South London for 30 years and raped two of his followers has | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
Aravindan Balakrishnan, who's now 75, managed to brainwash | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
cult members into thinking he had God-like powers while subjecting | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
From Southwark Crown Court, here's Tom Symonds. | :12:00. | :12:06. | |
Behind closed doors and windows Aravindan Balakrishnan presided | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
For more than 30 years, far longer than his 23-year sentence today. | :12:10. | :12:18. | |
Some of his followers remained loyal to the end, | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
And filmed here, before he was convicted, Balakrishnan has | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
The judge, Mrs Justice Taylor, described him as a largely | :12:27. | :12:33. | |
Of the women he lived with, she said, you were ruthless | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
in your exploitation of them, you engendered a climate of fear. | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
You showed supreme arrogance and contempt for those | :12:43. | :12:44. | |
She said Balakrishnan repeatedly raped two members of his group, | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
simply to exercise his power over them. | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
And she said that he treated his daughter like an experiment, | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
depriving her of love, friendship, of a childhood. | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
Egging him on and reminding him to be horrible as well. | :13:05. | :13:14. | |
For decades she was hidden away, but no more - | :13:15. | :13:16. | |
In her new life she has waived her right to anonymity | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
to talk about her strange upbringing. | :13:21. | :13:22. | |
I hated the violence in the place and the sense of being controlled. | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
She and two other women finally left the cult in this flat after calling | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
a helpline shown on the BBC News At Six. | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
When I first came out I wasn't really able to make my way | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
I had no idea how to even do the simplest things and take public | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
I remember having headaches, so much information, | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
Outside court, Aravindan Balakrishnan's wife and another | :13:49. | :14:06. | |
member of the cult claimed he'd been framed. | :14:07. | :14:08. | |
For them, even after his conviction, his influence lives on. | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
Peace talks aimed at ending the civil war in Syria got under way | :14:15. | :14:17. | |
in Geneva today - though only with President Assad's side there. | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
But this evening Syria's main opposition groups announced | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
they would now join the UN-sponsored talks. | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
They had been refusing to do so unless the bombing of civilian | :14:29. | :14:30. | |
But they say they won't negotiate with the Syrian government. | :14:31. | :14:37. | |
In almost five years of civil war more than 250,000 Syrians have | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
More than 11 million others have been forced from their homes. | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
Around 4.5 million of them have fled the country. | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
Our diplomatic correspondent James Robbins is in Geneva. | :14:51. | :14:58. | |
This was certainly not the opening of crucial United Nations peace | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
negotiations that they had been planning for, or had wanted. After | :15:05. | :15:11. | |
the collapse of two previous peace conferences, the last in 2014, the | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
task this time seems all the harder. The level of entrenched bitterness | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
and hatred between the two sides all the greater. | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
Syria has been ripped apart by almost five years | :15:23. | :15:24. | |
Without peace, survivors will continue to flee. | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
Only Islamist extremists will flourish. | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
The UN diplomat mediating these new Geneva talks made a direct video | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
You, women, men and children of Syria saying enough, | :15:38. | :15:46. | |
enough killing, murdering, torturing, prisons. | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
Now we need to hear your voice to everyone who is coming to this | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
conference, saying this conference must be an opportunity not | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
But it's an opportunity only one side took up today. | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
President Assad's government sent a delegation. | :16:06. | :16:07. | |
One of their representatives told me they couldn't talk as long | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
as government forces backed by Russia bomb civilians | :16:14. | :16:15. | |
We can't just sit down and negotiate when there are kids that need milk | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
It is our moral and humanitarian obligation towards the Syrian | :16:22. | :16:28. | |
So the UN mediator was left discussing the agenda | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
Achieving a ceasefire, agreeing a transitional government | :16:33. | :16:40. | |
for Syria, drawing up a new constitution and finally | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
But on the critical question of President Assad standing aside, | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
there's no evidence either his team or Russia is ready to trade | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
President Assad's side must hope they've scored a propaganda victory | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
by being the first to the UN table and first to the world's cameras. | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
The UN never intended the two sides to meet face to face, | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
but they did intend that they should both be here. | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
The government side left without saying anything. | :17:10. | :17:11. | |
Then this evening the Syrian opposition did reverse | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
They will come here to the UN's palatial negotiating chambers soon. | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
But still an already fragile search for peace got off | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
It's still not clear if the opposition now means to send a full | :17:25. | :17:36. | |
negotiating team here to Geneva and on what terms. They told us tonight | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
that they want to focus on humanitarian issues, not on the | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
political issues, which are central to the UN agenda. The UN has set | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
aside six months for these peace talks and it seems they may note all | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
that time. There is no intention of trying to get the two warring sides | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
to fates each other directly in the early stages, that would be clearly | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
impossible given the level of enmity between them, but the hope is the UN | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
can gradually narrows some gaps in so-called proximity talks, where | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
they actually see the warring sides separately in different meetings. | :18:10. | :18:12. | |
But bringing them together and finding a consensus looks | :18:13. | :18:13. | |
extraordinarily difficult. There's been a big surge | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
in the number of people going to Accident and | :18:20. | :18:21. | |
Emergency in England. Figures show more than 330,000 | :18:22. | :18:23. | |
people attended A last week. That's up 8% on the | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
same time last year. 45 A units were shut down | :18:27. | :18:28. | |
temporarily for a few hours to cope The NHS says it doesn't expect | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
the pressure to ease - as our health editor | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
Hugh Pym reports. It was the busiest ever day at this | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
A department in Birmingham earlier this week, with a constant | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
flow of people arriving in ambulances or on foot, | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
and staff dealing with unprecedented Demand through this winter has been | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
the highest we've ever seen We've seen an average | :18:52. | :18:58. | |
of 290 patients per day, which is the highest | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
we've ever seen. NHS England said staff at every | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
hospital were providing a high quality service, but the pressures | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
remained very real and they weren't Calls to the 111 helpline were up | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
30% in some areas year on year. The weather hasn't been especially | :19:16. | :19:23. | |
bad for winter, there's nothing out of the ordinary in terms of flu | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
or norovirus, and that leaves hospitals struggling to explain why | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
there's been this surge Examples of the NHS under pressure | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
included hospital bosses in Leicester considering a temporary | :19:34. | :19:40. | |
treatment area in a tent, routine operations being cancelled | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
in Cornwall and Coventry, Portsmouth Hospital said it had | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
exceptional numbers of frail, elderly patients, and North London | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
GPs were told there was a challenge to safe operating at | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
two local hospitals. Those GPs were e-mailed, | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
asking them to refer patients One of them told me that given more | :20:01. | :20:02. | |
resources they could care for more GPs are best placed to reduce | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
unnecessary flow into A, We can definitely manage that here, | :20:10. | :20:19. | |
before they might need to present to hospital, but only if | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
we have the manpower. The Welsh government said there had | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
been a sharp rise in the number of Scotland's hospitals reported | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
increased pressures, though some improvement | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
on last year. A brief look at some | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
of the day's other news stories. Winds of more than 100 miles | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
per hour have been causing damage to buildings and travel | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
disruption in parts of the UK. A rare red Met Office alert | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
was in place for Orkney and Shetland and thousands of homes were left | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
without power in Scotland The stepfather of the murdered | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
schoolboy Daniel Pelka has been Mariusz Krezolek had been found | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
guilty three years ago Daniel's mother, Magdalena Luczak, | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
who was also found guilty of his murder, was found dead | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
in her cell last July. A cyber attack on HSBC | :21:16. | :21:24. | |
has caused disruption Millions of customers | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
could not use the service. The bank says no confidential | :21:29. | :21:29. | |
information was lost. Football - and Manchester United | :21:30. | :21:36. | |
faced a potentially difficult tie in the FA Cup fourth | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
round at Derby this evening. All eyes were on Louis van Gaal's | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
team after their recent Miserable weather here tonight in | :21:43. | :21:58. | |
Derby, but the Manchester team bus over thy will not be a miserable | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
place tonight. Louis van Gaal arrived here to hear chants of, you | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
are getting sacked in the morning. He has accused the press of sacking | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
him three times already this season after poor results, but they beat | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
Derby 3-1 this evening and tomorrow morning's headlines will not be that | :22:16. | :22:16. | |
unpleasant for Manchester United. Welcome to Derby. The Manchester | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
United manager and Welcome to Derby. The Manchester | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
booed by their own fans after last week and's defeat in the league and | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
they knew what they wanted to see here tonight. They need to win in | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
style, don't they? Attacking football, that's all I want to see. | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
I just want them to attack. Wayne Rooney penalty save them in the last | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
round of the Cup. Magnificent goal from Rooney captains should always | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
lead by example. But for the rest of the half it was hard to distinguish | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
between the sides fifth in the Lee Grant Derby, fifth in the | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
Championship. Great chances. George Thorne. Especially with an equaliser | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
as well crafted as that. United with a thorn in the side at half-time, | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
George Thorne. United emerged from the break with more urgency, if not | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
accuracy. Juan Mata knew that was a matter of inches. Mata flying. The | :23:20. | :23:26. | |
knot next goal came from an unlikely source, Blind put United I again and | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
from then on there was only going to be one winner. Mata lashed home and | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
Van Gaal can call United home for a bit longer. His side the first into | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
this season's fifth round of the FA Cup, now the small matter of | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
improving on fifth in the table. That will be the key to his job | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
security. It's been driven by the Queen, | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
Churchill and even James Bond, but today, production of one | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
of the most iconic vehicles has come This morning, the last | :23:56. | :23:58. | |
Land Rover Defender rolled off the production line in the West | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
Midlands. Our transport correspondent | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
Richard Westcott reports. People use the word icon a lot - | :24:07. | :24:09. | |
but in this case it fits. It's quite possibly the most | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
recognisable car on Earth. But after seven decades it's reached | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
the end of the line. Here it is, the last | :24:20. | :24:22. | |
Land Rover Defender, very slowly rolling off | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
the production line. Half of the workforce has | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
turned out to watch. Jeff, you've been making this for 40 | :24:30. | :24:31. | |
years, and you are retiring along It's tinged with sadness, | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
but I have my memories. Whenever you put the television on, | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
you see this vehicle It was designed to get Britain's | :24:41. | :24:42. | |
farmers back on their feet again Forget looks or speed - | :24:43. | :24:49. | |
it's almost impossible They built more than 2 million | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
Land Rovers and they reckon around 70% of them are still | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
driving around today. And this is the same car | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
when it was brand-new, It's on a family fun day - | :25:05. | :25:13. | |
a health and safety officer's So, James, how crazy do people | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
get about these cars? People get completely | :25:19. | :25:25. | |
obsessed with them. They buy an early one, | :25:26. | :25:27. | |
maybe as a pile of parts more than anything else, and then | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
they will then spend an absolute fortune trying to get it back | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
to the condition it was in when it The car has become as famously | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
British as some of its drivers. But in the end, this old body can't | :25:39. | :25:47. | |
keep pace with modern safety and pollution laws, | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
and tastes have changed as more I honestly never thought | :25:52. | :25:54. | |
I would drive around In a few years they will call | :25:55. | :26:02. | |
another model Defender, but it will be a totally | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
different car. The start of a next chapter, | :26:07. | :26:09. | |
a next generation of Defender. I always think it is time to move | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
on, time to do the right thing, incredibly proud of what | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
the vehicle has done. For workers on the line, | :26:20. | :26:21. | |
it's time to say goodbye. | :26:22. | :26:31. |