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Good afternoon. The Chancellor, George Osborne, has promised to | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
change planning rules to speed up development and deliver a boost to | :00:22. | :00:30. | |
the economy. He told the BBC that the country had to take decisions | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
now on building projects that would decide whether Britain sank or swam. | :00:35. | :00:44. | |
Chris Mason reports. Smiles, sunshine and gold medals. | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
It's been a summer of being upbeat about the Olympics, but many are | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
downbeat about the economy. MPs are back at Westminster tomorrow and | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
sorting out the economy is the Government's big job and one that's | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
proving rather tricky. The Chancellor, George Osborne, in an | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
interview this morning said there was no easy ride to a magical | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
recovery. We have to do more and we have to do it faster. In the next | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
couple of weeks you will see us introducing to parliament | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
legislation to speed up planning decisions, to speed up the | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
processes that mean we can actually build roads more quickly than it | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
takes to fight a world war. Ministers want to make it easier to | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
bring in the diggers and build more houses and more roads, there's | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
frustration in Government that people grumbling about new homes | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
being built in their own backyard stands in the way of new projects | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
being given planning permission. So expect it to get easier for the | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
builders. But Labour says the coalition introduced new planning | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
rules six months ago and this latest idea's confusing. What you | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
want is certainty in your policy- making. I am not saying don't do | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
something about planning. But I am saying for God's sake make your | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
mind up and stick to it. Meanwhile, for the Deputy Prime | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
Minister and and Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, yet more | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
sounding-off from those on his own side. Another Lib Dem in the House | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
of Lords has suggested the party would be better off without him. | :02:11. | :02:17. | |
Those close to Mr Clegg are dismissing the criticism. But it's | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
yet another reminder of just how difficult the whole business of | :02:21. | :02:29. | |
coalition Government can be for these two men. | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
The Foreign Office has confirmed that a British man and a boy have | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
drowned off the coast of Majorca. It's thought the man was the boy's | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
father, and that he had jumped into the sea to help his son when a wave | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
swept the boy into the water. The training of local police | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
recruits in Afghanistan by US special forces has been suspended | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
for at least a month. It follows an increase in attacks on NATO-led | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
forces by their Afghan colleagues. Quentin Sommerville is in the | :02:51. | :02:59. | |
Afghan capital, Kabul. How significant is this? Well, they've | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
been scratching their heads here, NATO commanders as to what they | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
should do about these attacks when Afghan security forces turn their | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
guns on foreigners they're serving alongside. They've decided with the | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
police, one of the smallest security forces here in Afghanistan, | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
about 16,000 people, that all new recruits, the training of new | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
recruits will be suspended, about 1,000, and the other 15,000 will be | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
revetted. The big question in all of this what about the rest of the | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
Afghan security forces? They number something like 350,000. The army | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
and regular police. They also have to go through a revetting. If they | :03:35. | :03:44. | |
do, that could upset the mission here in Afghanistan. Thank you. | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
Britain's medal tally continues to grow at the Paralympics. On the | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
fourth morning of action, long jumper Stef Reid won a silver medal, | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
while in the equestrian at Greenwich, Sophie Wells also | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
secured silver. Andy Swiss reports. Another bumper crowd in the stadium | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
and the home fans soon had plenty to cheer. Britain's Stef Reid in | :04:02. | :04:09. | |
the long jump, a lower leg amputee, competed for Canada at the last | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
Games but with British parents she's switched allegiances, and | :04:14. | :04:20. | |
tphouf win silver. On the track, there were high hopes for Shelley | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
Woods in the 5,000 metres. She won bronze four years ago but despite a | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
promising start she was outsprinted on the home strait. Finishing back | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
in 8th, a rare disappointment for paralimp Paralympics GB. The | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
records were tumbling in the Velodrome. After winning gold | :04:38. | :04:44. | |
yesterday, Neil Fachie set a new world best in the individual sprint. | :04:44. | :04:50. | |
It lasted a couple of minutes, as it was bettered almost immediately, | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
both through to this afternoon's semis in convincing style. | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
In the last few minutes there's been another medal for the | :04:59. | :05:09. | |
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equestrian team. Sophie Wells securing silver. | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
And in the last few minutes Britain has won gold in the mixed coxed | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
four at Eton Dorney. One of the most celebrated | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
lyricists in popular music - Hal David - has died in Los Angeles at | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
the age of 91. He was best known for his long-standing musical | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
partnership with Burt Bacharach. They created some of the most often | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
performed songs in modern history, including Raindrops Keep Falling on | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
My Head and Say a Little Prayer. Peter Bowes looks back at his | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
career. # What do you get when you fall in | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
love... They are quite simply, some of the most popular and familiar | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
songs of the 20th century. # I just don't know what to do with | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
myself... Hal David's prolific collaboration | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
with Burt Bacharach produced hit after hit. They started writing | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
together in 1956 and worked with some of the biggest names in the | :06:00. | :06:10. | |
business. Tom Jones, Perry Combe and The Carpenters. | :06:10. | :06:17. | |
The partnership was unique. Living in different cities, New York and | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
Los Angeles, they would sometimes collaborate over the phone. Hal | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
David had a simple approach to his work, he once said songs should be | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
like little films, told in three or four minutes. He was in much demand | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
in Hollywood, with Burt Bacharach he won an Oscar for Raindrops Keep | :06:35. | :06:42. | |
Fallin' On My Head. From time to time, I found myself star-gazing on | :06:42. | :06:49. | |
the famous Hollywood Walk of Fame. Never dreaming that one day one of | :06:49. | :06:57. | |
the stars would be mine. For the stars who recorded his | :06:57. | :07:02. |