02/09/2012 BBC Weekend News


02/09/2012

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Good afternoon. The Chancellor, George Osborne, has promised to

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change planning rules to speed up development and deliver a boost to

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the economy. He told the BBC that the country had to take decisions

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now on building projects that would decide whether Britain sank or swam.

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Chris Mason reports. Smiles, sunshine and gold medals.

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It's been a summer of being upbeat about the Olympics, but many are

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downbeat about the economy. MPs are back at Westminster tomorrow and

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sorting out the economy is the Government's big job and one that's

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proving rather tricky. The Chancellor, George Osborne, in an

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interview this morning said there was no easy ride to a magical

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recovery. We have to do more and we have to do it faster. In the next

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couple of weeks you will see us introducing to parliament

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legislation to speed up planning decisions, to speed up the

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processes that mean we can actually build roads more quickly than it

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takes to fight a world war. Ministers want to make it easier to

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bring in the diggers and build more houses and more roads, there's

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frustration in Government that people grumbling about new homes

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being built in their own backyard stands in the way of new projects

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being given planning permission. So expect it to get easier for the

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builders. But Labour says the coalition introduced new planning

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rules six months ago and this latest idea's confusing. What you

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want is certainty in your policy- making. I am not saying don't do

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something about planning. But I am saying for God's sake make your

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mind up and stick to it. Meanwhile, for the Deputy Prime

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Minister and and Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, yet more

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sounding-off from those on his own side. Another Lib Dem in the House

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of Lords has suggested the party would be better off without him.

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Those close to Mr Clegg are dismissing the criticism. But it's

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yet another reminder of just how difficult the whole business of

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coalition Government can be for these two men.

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The Foreign Office has confirmed that a British man and a boy have

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drowned off the coast of Majorca. It's thought the man was the boy's

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father, and that he had jumped into the sea to help his son when a wave

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swept the boy into the water. The training of local police

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recruits in Afghanistan by US special forces has been suspended

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for at least a month. It follows an increase in attacks on NATO-led

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forces by their Afghan colleagues. Quentin Sommerville is in the

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Afghan capital, Kabul. How significant is this? Well, they've

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been scratching their heads here, NATO commanders as to what they

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should do about these attacks when Afghan security forces turn their

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guns on foreigners they're serving alongside. They've decided with the

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police, one of the smallest security forces here in Afghanistan,

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about 16,000 people, that all new recruits, the training of new

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recruits will be suspended, about 1,000, and the other 15,000 will be

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revetted. The big question in all of this what about the rest of the

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Afghan security forces? They number something like 350,000. The army

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and regular police. They also have to go through a revetting. If they

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do, that could upset the mission here in Afghanistan. Thank you.

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Britain's medal tally continues to grow at the Paralympics. On the

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fourth morning of action, long jumper Stef Reid won a silver medal,

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while in the equestrian at Greenwich, Sophie Wells also

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secured silver. Andy Swiss reports. Another bumper crowd in the stadium

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and the home fans soon had plenty to cheer. Britain's Stef Reid in

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the long jump, a lower leg amputee, competed for Canada at the last

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Games but with British parents she's switched allegiances, and

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tphouf win silver. On the track, there were high hopes for Shelley

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Woods in the 5,000 metres. She won bronze four years ago but despite a

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promising start she was outsprinted on the home strait. Finishing back

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in 8th, a rare disappointment for paralimp Paralympics GB. The

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records were tumbling in the Velodrome. After winning gold

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yesterday, Neil Fachie set a new world best in the individual sprint.

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It lasted a couple of minutes, as it was bettered almost immediately,

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both through to this afternoon's semis in convincing style.

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In the last few minutes there's been another medal for the

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equestrian team. Sophie Wells securing silver.

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And in the last few minutes Britain has won gold in the mixed coxed

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four at Eton Dorney. One of the most celebrated

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lyricists in popular music - Hal David - has died in Los Angeles at

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the age of 91. He was best known for his long-standing musical

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partnership with Burt Bacharach. They created some of the most often

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performed songs in modern history, including Raindrops Keep Falling on

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My Head and Say a Little Prayer. Peter Bowes looks back at his

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career. # What do you get when you fall in

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love... They are quite simply, some of the most popular and familiar

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songs of the 20th century. # I just don't know what to do with

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myself... Hal David's prolific collaboration

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with Burt Bacharach produced hit after hit. They started writing

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together in 1956 and worked with some of the biggest names in the

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business. Tom Jones, Perry Combe and The Carpenters.

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The partnership was unique. Living in different cities, New York and

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Los Angeles, they would sometimes collaborate over the phone. Hal

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David had a simple approach to his work, he once said songs should be

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like little films, told in three or four minutes. He was in much demand

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in Hollywood, with Burt Bacharach he won an Oscar for Raindrops Keep

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Fallin' On My Head. From time to time, I found myself star-gazing on

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the famous Hollywood Walk of Fame. Never dreaming that one day one of

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the stars would be mine. For the stars who recorded his

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