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The International Monetary Fund backs the Government over cutting | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
the deficit but washes it may need to do more to support the British | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
economy. IMF boss Christine Lagarde warns the Chancellor to prepare a | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
plan B in case growth fails to take off. Growth is too slow and | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
unemployment, including youth unemployment, too high. Policies to | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
bolster demand before low growth becomes entrenched are needed. | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
There's better news for consumers. Inflation has fallen to 3%, its | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
lowest rate for for two years. The jury in the Shafilea Ahmed case | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
is told her sister says she witnessed her murder but kept it | :00:46. | :00:54. | |
secret for seven years. The MP whose campaign helped to | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
expose hacking at News International gives evidence to the | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
Leveson Inquiry. Lighting up the Queen's Jubilee, | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
how the army's been called in for a spot of heavy lifting. | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
Hundreds of suspected cancer patients may have missed treatment | :01:11. | :01:17. | |
because of mistakes. And the GM wheat trial bracing it self for the | :01:17. | :01:27. | |
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pocket of -- possibility of more Good afternoon. | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
The International Monetary Fund has warned the Government it may need | :01:38. | :01:44. | |
to cut taxes such as VAT to boost growth, if the economy recovery | :01:44. | :01:50. | |
fails to take off. The IMF backed the Government on cutting the the | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
deficit but suggested new spending on infrastructure as well as | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
further monetary stimulus by the Bank of England, including the | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
possibility of cutting interest rates even further, but there was | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
some good news for consumers. Inflation has fallen back to 3%, | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
its lowest rate in more than two years. Our correspondent Emma | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
Simpson reports. Thousand get our economy back on | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
its feet? Today came a warning from the IMF, the global financial | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
watchdog that if if things deteriorate the Government will | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
need to take action. The IMF boss was in town delivering the latest | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
verdict on the UK economy. Unfortunately, the economic | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
recovery in the UK has not yet taken hold and uncertainties abound. | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
The stresses in the euro area affect the UK through many channels. | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
Growth is too slow and unemployment, including youth unemployment, too | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
high. Policies to bolster demand before low growth becomes | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
entrenched are needed. Policies like a temporary cut in VAT, and | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
spending more money on infrastructure projects, even a | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
further cut in interest rates to boost growth. But the Chancellor | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
insisted the Government was still on the right track. The IMF could | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
not be clearer today. Britain needs to deal with its debts and the | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
Government's fiscal policy is the appropriate one, and an essential | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
part of our road to recovery. there was also some good news today, | :03:16. | :03:23. | |
a big drop in inflation down from 3.5% in March, to 3% last month. It | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
was helped by a big drop in the cost of furniture, down by just | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
over 1%. That's a relief to this toy | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
retailer in Buckinghamshire. Prices have been rising for the goods that | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
they buy, increases they haven't been able to pass on to shoppers. | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
We are seeing increasing costs. We are seeing increasing costs from | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
some of the items we import from the Far East, shipping costs and | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
some factory gate prices are increasing. But at the moment the | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
confidence in the UK is low at retail level and for this reason we | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
don't feel it possible we can pass on increase in cost to consumers. | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
Today's fall in inflation is welcome news, but household | :04:05. | :04:12. | |
finances are still under pressure, for instance, wages aren't growing | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
near enough to keep up with the cost of living. | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
Inflation may befalling, but at this football club parents told us | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
they had yet to reap the benefits. I can still notice that food has | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
gone up. Everything's gone up, even school clubs like this one. You cut | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
down on everything and if you see the bargains in supermarkets, | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
things that are cheaper, you buy them. The Government's hoping this | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
fall in inflation will continue, but the fate of our economy is very | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
much linked to how the eurozone crisis develops and it's far from | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
clear how that game is going to play out. | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
Our economics editor Stephanie Flanders is in Westminster. The IMF | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
has been going through the books. What struck you about what | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
Christine Lagarde had to say? was a case of nice policies, shame | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
about the economy. There was a lot of support for what the Government | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
had been doing so far, and a lot of blunt words about what had been | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
happening to the economy. They did seem to think the Bank of England | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
should do more now to help the recovery, maybe even cut interest | :05:18. | :05:24. | |
rates from the very low level they're currently at, 0.5%, and | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
pump more money into the economy. There was a long list of things | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
that Christine Lagarde thought the Chancellor should be doing. What | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
was important for the Chancellor was that most of those things were | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
things that he or the Prime Minister have actually talked about. | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
Credit easing, for example, doing more to make things easier for | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
businesses to borrow and to improve and have more infrastructure | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
projects financesed by the private sector, they've talked about those | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
things although they haven't delivered all of them. Was it | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
tantamount to criticism of Government policy? Obviously, the | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
Shadow Chancellor has jumped on the second part of the IMF report, | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
which talks about if things get worse what the Government might | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
need to do, the plan B, if you like, and there they did suggest there | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
might be a case for temporary tax cuts, like the temporary VAT cut | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
that Ed Balls has been suggesting. The crucial thing for the | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
Chancellor, for George Osborne, was that they're not saying it's time | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
for that yet. They've said that in the past and they still don't think, | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
although forecasts have got worse, the IMF doesn't think it's bad | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
enough to go there just yet. Thank you very much. | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
The jury in the Shafilea Ahmed murder trial has been told that her | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
younger sister says she saw her being suffocated by her parents but | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
kept it secret for seven years. Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed are | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
accused of killing Shafilea, both parents deny the charges. Our | :06:51. | :06:58. | |
correspondent Jude it Moritz -- Judith more sits at the Crown Court. | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
What happened? The prosecution finished setting out its case | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
against Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed by outlining evidence which the | :07:04. | :07:12. | |
jury are going to hear later this afternoon. The court heard that | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
back two years ago in 2010 Alesha Ahmed had been involved in | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
organising a robbery at the Ahmed family home, it's a crime she | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
pleaded guilty to and is expecting to be sentenced for. Then the jury | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
were told that at that time two years ago sthaoe -- she spoke to | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
police and revealed in 2003 she had witnessed their parents, I have and | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
Farzana Ahmed, suffocating Shafilea by putting a plastic bag in the | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
teenager's mouth and placing their hands across her face and the jury | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
were told she will hear later from Alesha Ahmed she saw her mother in | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
the kitchen with sheeting and with rolls of tape and her father | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
outside with a heavy object wrapped in bin liners which she assumes was | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
Shafilea's body. The jury were told that when she hear this evidence | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
later they'll need to bear in mind the question of whether Alesha | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
Ahmed is lying, somehow to help her when she comes to be sentenced for | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
her part in that robbery, or whether she is telling the truth | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
and this is a a secret she's lived with for years before relations | :08:17. | :08:27. | |
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with her parents became tomorrowics. -- toxic. | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
Tom Watson, the Labour MP whose campaign helped to expose phone | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
hacking at News International has told the Leveson Inquiry that the | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
Ministers in the last Labour Government were constantly mindful | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
of how their actions would be portrayed by Rupert Murdoch's | :08:41. | :08:48. | |
newspapers. He is the MP who spear-headed the | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
assault on News International. you mislead this committee in your | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
original testimony? No, I did not. Today, Tom Watson told the Leveson | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
Inquiry how News International had retaliated against the members of | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
the committee. He recalled a warning he had received from a | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
senior journalist on the News of the World, Neville Thurlbeck. | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
Neville Thurlbeck on a number of occasions alleged there was an | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
attempt to gather information on committee members in order to, he | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
uses the word smear, effectively, he is alleges a conspiracy to | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
blackmail members of the committee. Counsel for News International said | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
Mr Watson had been the only member of the committee the paper had | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
taken an interest in. Mr Watson described how in a debate in the | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
Commons in 2010, he had spoken about his fear of News | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
International. At that debate I - it was the first time that I had | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
sort of said in the chamber that I was frightened and scared and a | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
number of MPs afterwards said I am so pleased you said that, I felt | :09:50. | :09:56. | |
the same. I got the distinct sense that there was - this was a | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
solitary fear that they had felt they could then share with | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
colleagues and they weren't the only ones. Mr Watson also said that | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
at one point Gordon Brown had telephoned him to warn him that | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
Tony Blair had been asked by Rupert Murdoch to get him to ease off on | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
his inquiries. I can tell you the exact position I was standing when | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
I took the phone call, because the idea that Rupert Murdoch would call | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
Tony Blair or Gordon Brown to phone me is not the sort of thing a back | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
bench MP would forget too easy. Watson said that within the last | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
Labour Government there was a mystique about News International | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
and constant attention to how policies would be portrayed in the | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
Sun. A radical overhaul of the way | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
antisocial behaviour is tackled in England and Wales means the end for | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
the ASBO. The antisocial behaviour order will be replaced with new | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
orders and something called the community trigger. That's where | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
police will have to step in if five people across the same | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
neighbourhood complain or if one person makes three complaints. | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
Our correspondent Chris Buckler reports. | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
From noise to nuisance, and vandalism to violence, antisocial | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
behaviour takes many forms. Today, the Home Secretary took to the | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
streets where people have had to deal with that trouble and after 15 | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
years during which they were one of the main tools to deal with bad | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
behaviour, Theresa May signalled an end to the ASBO. What we see with | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
ASBOs is despite them having been in place for many years now, we | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
still see three million million incidents of antisocial behaviour | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
reported each year and that's probably not the full number. It's | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
probably more than that in terms of the number of incidents because | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
some people don't report because they don't think anything's going | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
to happen. The replacements will share some of the qualities of | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
ASBOs. They will include criminal behaviour orders. Crime prevention | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
injunctions, which require a lower standard of proof, and the | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
community trigger, which would force the police and others to act | :11:59. | :12:09. | |
if they received several complaints. Mary Armstrong is one of the | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
campaigners who met Theresa May. She says to improve areas problems | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
need to be dealt with more quickly. If you have somebody causing | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
antisocial behaviour, and they think that nobody's going to do | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
anything about that, they will fill a diary in but nobody will do | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
anything, that's fuel for them. They'll do it all the more. | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
Government insists the new proposals are speedier and simpler, | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
but the Labour Party has described them as a weak rebrand of ASBOs. | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
There is a deep divide over how successful antisocial behaviour | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
orders really were. Some people will tell that you ASBOs made a | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
real difference to theirs lives t stopped trouble-making in their | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
neighbourhood. But there are others who say that youths weren't scared | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
of the orders. In fact, they regarded ASBOs as a badge of honour. | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
But some question if the new ideas, like community triggers, will make | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
a difference. I couldn't get five people on my street to do | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
statements or go to court. Why not? Because they're too scared of being | :13:08. | :13:15. | |
targeted. Whether what some people are already calling crimbos will | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
have more teeth than ASBOs will depend on part on that you they're | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
used. The Government has published plans | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
to try to wean the country off its reliance on fossil fuels. The draft | :13:29. | :13:38. | |
energy bill includes plans to encourage investment in low low | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
carbon technology and to offer companies long-term contracts with | :13:41. | :13:48. | |
predictable rates of return. A judgment is to be made on whether | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
prisoners will be given the right to vote. The Government will have | :13:52. | :14:00. | |
six months on to decide how to implement decisions here. | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
Infertility treatment on how the NHS in England and Wales could be | :14:03. | :14:09. | |
extended to women up to the age of 42. This is part of the new | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
proposals from Nice which sets the clinical guidelines for the health | :14:13. | :14:20. | |
service. New guidelines mean more people | :14:20. | :14:27. | |
should now be eligible for NHS funding. That help has come too | :14:27. | :14:33. | |
late for Justine. She's already spent �34,000 on treatment after | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
being told she didn't qualify for help. It's frustrating watching | :14:37. | :14:43. | |
money that you have saved carefully be spent on treatment that you | :14:43. | :14:49. | |
think you should have been eligible for and it's frustrating knowing | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
that other people get treated for other problems but I can't be | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
treated for mine. These new guidelines on fertility | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
treatment should help a small group of women up to the age of 42 who | :15:00. | :15:06. | |
are excluded under the previous guidelines and they will also hope | :15:06. | :15:15. | |
up -- open up treatment to people with serious illness. Much despite | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
huge advances in recent years it's still the case that as you get | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
older your chances of a successful IVF treatment fall. For women under | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
the age of 35 around a third will be successful. | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
For women aged 38-49, the success rate is less than 20%. | :15:31. | :15:37. | |
And for women aged 40-42 it's over 12%. There's no way around the fact | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
that pregnancy rates do decrease as you get older and rapidly over the | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
age of 40. But if the funding is not there, patients are not going | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
to get patient access to that treatment. | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
Patient groups have welcomed the new guidelines but they say they'll | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
be meaningless as too many Primary Care Trusts have yet to fully | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
implement the the 2004 guidelines but with budgets squeezed they're | :16:04. | :16:14. | |
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having to make hard decisions about Our top story this lunch time: The | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
International Monetary Fund backs the Government over cutting the | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
deficit, but warns it may need to do more to support the British | :16:20. | :16:26. | |
economy. Coming up: For one night only, back to celebrate its 30th | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
birthday, Manchester's legendary Hacienda club. | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
On BBC London: On strike, teachers take industrial action over plans | :16:33. | :16:39. | |
to force a failing school to turn into an academy. | :16:39. | :16:49. | |
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And how you can play every A Coroner has ruled that I British | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
soldier, killed whilst on active service in Afghanistan, was | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
accidentally shot by a British sniper. Lance Corporal Michael | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
Pritchard was 22 and served with the Royal Military Police. He was | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
fatally shot in Sangin in 2009. The inquest heard that the Army sniper | :17:07. | :17:14. | |
who shot him had not been trained to fire his weapon at night. Royal | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
Military Policeman Michael Pritchard was described by his | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
family as a lover of life who brought joy to all who knew him. He | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
was just 22 when he was killed on his first tour of Afghanistan. It | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
was at the end of 2009, the deadliest year for British troops | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
in Helmand. Michael was sent to Sangin, the most dangerous part. | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
His unit targeted by Taliban bombs and bullets on a daily basis. That | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
December night was dark. There was no moonment British troops at their | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
post used heat-seeking sites. They observed what they thought were | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
Taliban laying a bomb. In fact what they were seeing was another | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
British post, marked here as N30, it was manned by Michael Pritchard | :18:01. | :18:07. | |
and his comrades. Lance Corporal Malcolm Graham was the sniper who | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
fired the fatal shot. He told the inquest it he -- if he had known | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
where British troops were in the area, that he would not have shot | :18:17. | :18:23. | |
one round. Soldiers weren't aware of the exact position of friendly | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
forces, nor was permission given to fire the fatal shots. Though at the | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
time radio communications weren't working properly. The Coroner said | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
fundamentally this th was an accidentally, albeit an avoidable | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
one. He said the basic reason for the tragedy was the failure of | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
organisation systems needed to avoid friendly fire. | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
After the verdict of accidental death, Michael Pritchard's mother | :18:46. | :18:52. | |
gave her reaction. Evidence heard during the inquest indicated that | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
regular, essential and basic briefings to ensure the safety of | :18:56. | :19:04. | |
friendly forces were not carried out. Radio communication problems, | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
other robust procedures and poor leadership culminated of Michael | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
being observed approximately for one hour by several people who came | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
to the same wrong conclusion, leading to Michael being shot by a | :19:15. | :19:22. | |
British sniper firing a lethal shot over restricted fire line towards | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
an observation post. In a statement the Army said its thoughts and | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
prayers were with Michael's family. A military investigation found | :19:30. | :19:36. | |
failings on that tragic night, but no-one's been charged. | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
The quality of maths teaching in England is inconsistent and exams | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
on the subject have become easier, says the schools watchdog Ofsted. | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
It says the way the subject is taught lets down able pupils and | :19:49. | :19:56. | |
those who have a poor start. Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant! | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
good grasp of maths can change people's lives and here, at Perry | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
Beeches School in Birmingham, three quarters of pupils get a good maths | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
GCSE. It's a much improved school in a deprived area of the city. All | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
pupils here, including the low achievers are put in for maths a | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
year early. The head teacher says that helps the less confident | :20:17. | :20:25. | |
pupils. Seeing them initially in for a lower tier paper and when | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
they're past that stage, putting them into the higher tier paper has | :20:31. | :20:37. | |
proved successful here. Ofsted says taking GCSEs early is a bad idea as | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
it can prevent more able pupils from reaching their full potential. | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
It says changes to GCSE and A-level maths exams have made them less | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
challenging. Ofsted says the picture's not all bad. There are | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
examples of excellent teaching. There are more pupils sitting maths | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
A-level and exam results are going up. Because maths is essential for | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
everyday life, the points of weakness in the system are worrying. | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
Both strong and weak mathematicians are being let down. Those pupils | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
who fall behind early on, struggle to ever catch up, the brightest | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
aren't being stretched. youngsters who are achieving above | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
national norms, at the end of primary school, achieving level | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
five, should be getting As and A stars and Bs five years late wher | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
they come to do GCSEs. But too many are not. Changes to the curriculum | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
are due to be announced soon. Without more rigour, Ofsted warns | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
the future supply of mathematicians, scientists and engineers is under | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
threat. One of Scotland's largest companies | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
says more than 80% of apprenticeship applicants aren't | :21:45. | :21:53. | |
suitable for any job. Arnold Clark say most have a poor attitude and | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
are shocked at hours they're expected to work. | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
Lorna Gordon reports. These are some of the successful | :22:02. | :22:08. | |
ones, working at around orld Clark's training centre in Glasgow. | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
The motor dealership claims the vast majority of those applying for | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
their specialised apprenticeships are falling short. In many cases it | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
will be simple qualifications they lack. In other cases, it will be | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
perhaps they would lack an aptitude for this particular industry. | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
they claim too many youngsters applying for job was them have a | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
poor attitude, poor communication skills and are not able to adjust | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
to the length of the working week the figures are quite shocking. The | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
firm had more than 2,000 applications for apprenticeships | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
last year. They concluded that around 80% of those people were not | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
fit to be employed. But this youth worker says the people he helps are | :22:51. | :22:58. | |
not being given a fair chance. adults are just as unemployable as | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
young people. It's just that people aren't taking the time to help them | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
get into the job, get them suited to the job and help them progress. | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
Apprenticeships are a traditional way of entering the workforce, one | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
the Scottish Government is keen to encourage. They are likely to | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
listen closely to what big employers uction who provide those | :23:18. | :23:24. | |
opportunities, have to say. They're the beacons that will shine | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
around the UK to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and work is well | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
under way on building them. Soldiers from the Army Air Corps in | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
North Yorkshire are using a training exercise to create one of | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
them. It weighs more than ten tons. They've been using an | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
unconventional method to get it done. Our Defence Correspondent | :23:41. | :23:47. | |
Jonathan Beale reports. This is all about the Jubilee beacons that will | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
lit. This meadow in the Yorkshire Dales has been turned into an | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
airfield today. What they've been using the helicopter to do is move | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
wood up onto the hills. They're here for good operational reasons | :24:00. | :24:08. | |
as well. Over the high hills of the Yorkshire Dales today, the Army | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
were at work. A lynx helicopter, which took part in a fly-past for | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
the Queen at the weekend, could be seen ferrying wood to the top of | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
the fell. This, another kind of royal duty. Its cargo - timber for | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
a Jubilee beacon. This isn't just about helping a local community | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
build their Jubilee beacon. These troops will soon be deploying to | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
Afghanistan, so they're treating today as an important exercise. | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
What's the relevance between this and Afghanistan, we're a world | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
away? We dot same sort of thing, netted loads, bringing them to | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
resupply everyone. It's the same sort of thing, apart from using | :24:50. | :24:57. | |
wood apart from water and ammo. Wensleydale, a traditional scene | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
was complimented -- complemented by troops preparing the wood for take- | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
off. It is dangerous. It's making sure the loads are checked before | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
they fly to make sure they're safe to fly. It's very important. The | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
last thing you want is when the aircraft is flying for that load to | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
drop, something goes wrong, or drop below, damage equipment or even | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
people. Back on Penhill beacon the merry-go-round of loads continue to | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
be dropped off, ready to be built into a big bonfire. The last time | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
we had a biggish one like this, there could be 200 people turn up, | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
if it's a nice night. The usual procedure, they follow the track up | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
here and stand up here and all have a good time while we light the fire. | :25:38. | :25:44. | |
This and thousands of other Jubilee beacons will be lit Monday, June | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
4th. If the weather stays like this, they could be -- there could be | :25:48. | :25:54. | |
quite a crowd. Some 4,000 of those beacons will be lit on Monday 4th | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
June. Because it's close to mid- summer, they won't be lit until | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
about 10pm, so the full effect can be lit. Her Majesty the Queen is | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
lighting the very last one in London, after all the others have | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
been lit across the UK. It's sure to be a big occasion. Thank you | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
very much. For the first time, a commercial | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
rocket has blasted off to take supplies to the International Space | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
Station. The Falcon rocket took off from Cape Canaveral. It's expected | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
to take two days to reach the station. The cargo also includes | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
the ashes of 300 sci-fi fan atics, including James Doohan who played | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
Scotty in Star Trek. Their remains will be jettisoned into space. | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
Once dubbed the most famous nightclub in the world, the | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
Hacienda in Manchester became notorious for drug dealing and gang | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
violence. It closed in 1997. Last night it was revived for a one-off | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
party to celebrate its 30th anniversary. The atmosphere of the | :26:53. | :27:01. | |
80s and 90s had to be recreated in the undergroufpbd car park of a | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
block of flats on the site. This report contains flashing images. | :27:05. | :27:12. | |
The Hacienda was back. The club where Madonna made her first UK | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
appearance, acid house boomed and the Manchester movement took hold | :27:16. | :27:23. | |
shut in 1997. Where the Hacienda once stood, there's now an pa | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
partment block. The residents have been persuaded to move their | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
vehicles out of the car park so the club can be re-created. This is | :27:31. | :27:36. | |
where the original dance floor was in the Hacienda. Now it's where | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
young professionals park their cars. But for one night only, it's | :27:39. | :27:46. | |
returned to its original purpose. Yeah, it's great. New order's Peter | :27:46. | :27:50. | |
Hook co-owns the Hacienda and wanted its 30th birthday to be | :27:50. | :27:55. | |
commemorated. The people were very gracious, very, very sort of happy | :27:55. | :27:58. | |
to help because of the heritage, because they know what the Hacienda | :27:58. | :28:03. | |
meant to so many people in Manchester. At the end of the 80s, | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
the Hacienda was all about expanded trousers. Last night there were | :28:08. | :28:12. | |
more expanded waistlines. Familiar faces from the club's history had | :28:12. | :28:17. | |
returned. The best thing whatever happens to the place was it closing | :28:17. | :28:22. | |
down. Why? Because it's got its legendary status now. I couldn't | :28:22. | :28:26. | |
believe it, I came in before and it's the same bouncers who threw me | :28:26. | :28:30. | |
out about in 1999. Others were thrilled to be re-living their | :28:30. | :28:35. | |
youth. I've got all those old feelings back again, you know. | :28:35. | :28:41. | |
Today, the impromptu Hacienda is being dismantled and the cars will | :28:41. | :28:48. | |
return. The memories will be parked once more. | :28:48. | :28:51. | |
once more. Summer might just be here, Nina? | :28:51. | :28:54. | |
It was chilly this morning, but temperatures have been climbing, | :28:54. | :28:59. | |
across the country we've seen heat build underneath sunny skies. We've | :28:59. | :29:04. | |
got temperatures in the low 20s at the moment. Top temperature | :29:04. | :29:07. | |
currency in Southampton at around 23 degrees. Can you see that range | :29:07. | :29:12. | |
of temperatures. Just along the East Coast, it's cooler. We have | :29:12. | :29:15. | |
the breeze coming in off the North Sea. Away from the coasts, it is | :29:15. | :29:19. | |
going to be a fine afternoon, with that warmth and yet more sunshine | :29:19. | :29:24. | |
around. The sunshine is a little bit hazy out towards the west. | :29:24. | :29:29. | |
Northern Ireland, Cornwall as well, but elsewhere we have clear skies. | :29:29. | :29:33. | |
We could end up in the mid-20s by the end of the afternoon. Tonight, | :29:33. | :29:38. | |
we begin with clear skies. We are going to see misty lo cloud across | :29:38. | :29:41. | |
south-west England, Wales and also the East Coast of Scotland and | :29:41. | :29:46. | |
eastern England. Through the night, that creeps further inland. So, 8pm | :29:46. | :29:52. | |
in the morning, -- 8am in the morning, it's grey across Devon and | :29:52. | :29:56. | |
Cornwall. Temperatures not bad though, 12 degrees to begin the day. | :29:56. | :29:59. | |
Coastal areas of Wales having some of the overcast skies. Inland, | :29:59. | :30:03. | |
sunshine at 8am. For Northern Ireland, it's a dry start to the | :30:03. | :30:08. | |
day. Somewhat cloudy, with the best of the brightness in counties | :30:08. | :30:12. | |
Antrim and Down. For the North West of Scotland, fine, dry and bright. | :30:12. | :30:15. | |
Along the Aberdeen coastline and through the central low lands it's | :30:15. | :30:19. | |
a bit grey to begin the day. We have the misty low cloud for | :30:19. | :30:23. | |
eastern England, also the small chance of perhaps a few showers, | :30:23. | :30:26. | |
particularly across East Anglia. Already beginning the day with | :30:26. | :30:30. | |
temperatures in London at 15 degrees. As the cloud breaks up, | :30:30. | :30:34. | |
and we see sunny spells developing for the afternoon, yet again it | :30:34. | :30:38. | |
will be a warm day. Always the risk of the cloud clinging to the | :30:38. | :30:41. | |
coastline and a very small chance of prpz a heavy shower for the | :30:41. | :30:46. | |
afternoon. Temperatures could reach highs of about 25 degrees in the | :30:46. | :30:50. | |
south. We do it all again on Thursday. A bit misty with cloud to | :30:51. | :30:54. | |
begin the day. It burns back to the coast come the afternoon. Most | :30:54. | :30:59. | |
places are dry with a very small of a shower. Another very warm | :30:59. | :31:02. | |
afternoon. We could be even warmer through the day on Thursday. As for | :31:02. | :31:06. | |
the end of the week, we keep the sunshine with temperatures in the | :31:06. | :31:09. | |
low 20s, but the breeze will tend to strengthen. It's coming in from | :31:09. | :31:13. | |
the east. If you're worried about the weekend, I can offer you more | :31:13. | :31:17. | |
sunshine and temperatures should anybody the low 20s. Always feeling | :31:17. | :31:20. | |
cooler along the East Coast with the brisk wind. If you'd like more | :31:20. | :31:24. | |
the brisk wind. If you'd like more details, take a look online. | :31:24. | :31:27. |