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Doctors across the UK will take industrial action next month over | :00:08. | :00:13. | |
what they say are unfair changes to their pensions. It's the first time | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
doctors have voted in favour of such a move since the '70s. A full | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
strike has been ruled out but doctors could refuse non-essential | :00:20. | :00:26. | |
work. We are very upset because of the way the Government's gone about | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
things. They had one agreement before and they've torn it up and | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
tried for another one. Who knows what will happen in future? | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
The Prime Minister's former head of communications, Andy Coulson, is | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
detained by police on suspicion of committing perjury. | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
On the day the UN meets to try to resolve the violence in Syria, | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
reports that 13 bodies have been found. Their hands were tied and | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
some were shot in the head. The Business Secretary, Vince Cable, | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
tells the Leveson Inquiry he used an independent mind to judge News | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
Corp's bid for BskyB, and he explained why he said he'd declare | :00:56. | :01:02. | |
war on Rupert Murdoch. "There had been veiled threats, | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
that if I made the wrong decision from the point of view of the | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
company, my party would be, I think somebody, used the phrase done over | :01:09. | :01:19. | |
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in the News International press." And the TV ads that are remembered | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
for all the wrong reasons. We look at the ones that most offended | :01:33. | :01:43. | |
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Good afternoon, welcome to the BBC News at One. | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
For the first time in 40 years doctors have voted in favour of | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
industrial action in response to the Government's planned changes to | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
their pensions. Ministers have argued the current pension scheme | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
is unsustainable. Within the last hour the doctors' union, the | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
British Medical Association, has confirmed that non-urgent care will | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
be cancelled next month. Our health correspondent, Branwen Jeffreys, | :02:24. | :02:34. | |
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has this report. Doctors train long and hard to qualify. Their pay and | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
pensions reflect their unique responsibilities. But now like | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
other public sector employees they face pension changes, and they are | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
angry. Angry enough for more than whatever to bother voting, with a | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
clear majority in favour of industrial action. This is not | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
about seeking preferential treatment. This is about seeking | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
fair treatment. It is not too late for the Government to change its | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
mind. We would far prefer to negotiate a fairer solution rather | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
than take industrial action. what are the doctors' pension | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
changes? They've begun paying higher contribution. For some that | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
could rise to up to 14% of their salary before tax. The retirement | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
age will go up to 6le for those starting work now. And the pension | :03:21. | :03:28. | |
they will be paid will be less when they stop working. Tom is nearing | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
retirement as a GP. He's also a local union rep in Bristol. He says | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
many doctors feel angry and disillusioned. The NHS pension was | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
renegotiated only four years ago. We are very upset because of the | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
way the Government's gone about things. They had one agreement | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
before and they've torn it up and tried for another one. Who knows | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
what will happen in future But NHS managers are warning patients will | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
suffer as a result. Urgent and emergency care won't be affected. | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
That's things like A&E or maternity care, but routine appointments and | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
operations could be delayed. We are clear that the action they are | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
proposing is a strike. They are going to come into work but not do | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
the work they would be scheduled to do. But they will be there doing | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
emergencies. As an employers' organisation and local employers | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
will work closely with the BMA to put robust plans in place to make | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
sure patients are carried for when they need urgent care, but there'll | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
be inevitably be distress for patients. The last time doctors | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
took industrial action was almost 40 years ago, but a lot has changed | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
since the 1970. The Government says doctors can't be exempt from | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
pensions changes, and under this offer they would still get a very | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
good deal. A junior doctor starting out in three years' time in the NHS | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
could look forward to a pension equivalent to �68,000 a year. There | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
is people the length andth of the country who will say that's an | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
excellent pension. But the stage is now set for a stand-off, with | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
doctors on one side and the Government on the other. | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
And Branwen joins me now. This is difficult, not just for the | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
politicians but I presume also for the doctors as well? This is a | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
situation fraught with difficulty, Kate, for both sides. On the one | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
hand the last thing the Government wants is another stand-off with | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
doctors. It has just spent the last 18 months arguing with them over | :05:22. | :05:28. | |
the health changes to the NHS in England. Now it faces this row over | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
pensions. But on the other hand, doctors who've always commanded a | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
very high level of public respect. They've always had public opinion | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
behind them on many issues, they now face having the details of | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
their pension pored over. To many people working in the private | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
sector, they may look as though they are getting quite a generous | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
deal. And that planned action is 21st June? Yes. | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
Branwen, thank you. David Cameron's former head of | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
communications, Andy Coulson, is on his way to Scotland after being | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
detained by Strathclyde Police in London this morning. He is under | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
suspicion of committing perjury in relation to evidence he gave at the | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
trial of the Scottish politician Tommy Sheridan. Matt Prodger has | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
this report. It does contain flash photography. | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
Andy Coulson was once the Prime Minister's head of communications | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
and before that the editor of the News of the World. I came here | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
today voluntarily... Last summer he was arrested by the Metropolitan | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
Police on suspicion of phone hacking and corruption. He is still | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
on bail. But at 6.30pm Scottish police officers arrived at his home | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
in South London and detained him on suspicion of perjury, or lying in | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
court. It relates to the trial in Glasgow of the Scottish politician | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
Tommy Sheridan, at which Mr Coulson gave evidence two years ago. The | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
News of the World had run a story about Mr Sheridan's personal life | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
some years previously and he successfully sued the paper. During | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
the later court case Mr Coulson was asked how much he knew about phone | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
hacking carried out by the private investigate or Glenn Mulcaire. Mr | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
Coulson was questioned about bribes allegedly paid to police officers. | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
Tommy Sheridan's solicitor last year handed a dossier to | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
Strathclyde Police, which has been running its own investigation, | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
called Rubicon, into allegation of phone hacking, perjury and breaches | :07:29. | :07:36. | |
of data protection laws in Scotland. Mr Coulson is entitled to a | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
presumption of innocence but last July I handed him a dossier to | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
Strathclyde Police detailing allegation of criminality and | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
allegation of mobile phone hacking by those who worked on behalf of | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
the News of the World. Andy Coulson can be detained by Strathclyde | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
Police for up to 24 hours without charge. The allegation of perjury | :07:55. | :08:05. | |
is the most serious he faces. Lorna Gordon is outside Govan | :08:05. | :08:12. | |
police station in Glasgow with more. Andy Coulson was arrested early | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
this morning at his home in South London. Some questions about how he | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
would be transported up here to Scotland, it after all being a 400 | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
mile journey. It's been confirmed that he is being driven to this | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
police station in Govan by those seven officers from Strathclyde | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
Police. He's expected to arrive here at some point early this | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
afternoon. He's been detained as part of an investigation by the | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
Strathclyde Police called Operation Rubicon, an inquiry into | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
allegations of phone hacking, breaches of data protection, and | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
perjury. It is also in relation of course to the evidence given at the | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
trial of Tommy Sheridan. Andy Coulson gave two days of evidence | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
at that trial in December 2010. During that time Mr Sheridan, who | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
was representing himself, asked Mr Coulson, did News of the World pay | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
corrupt police officers? Plofplt Coulson said, "Not to my | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
knowledge." Police officers will have 12 hours to question him. They | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
can then apply for a further 12 hours. After that they have to | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
either arrest him, charge him or release him. Lorna, thank you. | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
The UN Security Council is meeting to discuss its next step in dealing | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
with the violence in Syria. UN observers say they've found 13 | :09:38. | :09:44. | |
bodies with their hands tied and some shot in the head. China and | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
Russia have reiterated their opposition to military intervention. | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
James, more expulsions today but still no let-up in the violence? | :09:52. | :09:58. | |
That's absolutely right. We've had a report from Major General Robert | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
Mood, who heads the UN mission in Syria. He says he is deeply | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
disturbed by the discovery of 13 people in the east of the country. | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
He called it an appalling and inexcusable act. Their bodies were | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
found with their hands tide behind their back and they appear to have | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
been shot in the head at short distance. Diplomatic pressure | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
continues on Syria. We've had more expulsions of diplomats from other | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
countries. Turkey, one of Syria's neighbours and until recently an | :10:28. | :10:34. | |
ally of Syria, has closed down the Syrian embassy in Turkey and | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
expelled tall diplomats. Japan has also taken action. We've got a long | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
list of countries taking action but no sign that President Bashar al- | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
Assad is responding by lessening the violence. James, thank you. | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
A British aid work here was kidnapped in Sudan almost flee | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
months ago has been freed. Patrick Noonan was working for the UN World | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
Food Programme in Darfur when he was taken hostage by armed men on | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
March 6th. A Susan knees driver was released later the same day. | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
Police are continuing to question the parents of six children who | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
died in a house fire in Derby. Mick Philpott, who is 55, and his 31- | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
year-old wife Mairead, were detained yesterday on suspicion of | :11:16. | :11:26. | |
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murder. Mat Fraser was convicted for the | :11:26. | :11:35. | |
second time of murdering his wife. He's been sensed no life in prison. | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
The Business Secretary, Vince Cable harks told the Leveson Inquiry he | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
was able to use an independent mind to judge News Corp's bid for sky | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
sky. He was stripped of his powers to adjudicate over the proposed | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
take-over when he told undercover journalists he would declare war on | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
Rupert Murdoch. Nicholas Witchell reports. | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
He was the Minister who had initial responsibility for adjudicating on | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
News International's bid to take full control of BSkyB television, | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
but Vince Cable was caught by reporters of the Daily Telegraph | :12:09. | :12:15. | |
making unguarded remarks. After that, responsibility for deciding | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
on the bid was passed to Jeremy Hunt in the culture department. The | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
inquiry has already heard how Mr Hunt's office remained in close and | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
private contact with News International. So, how had Vince | :12:28. | :12:35. | |
Cable and his office dealt with their approachs? His special | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
adviser was Giles Wilkes. This is how he responded to an approach by | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
Frederic Michel, the News International lobbyist. Mr Michel | :12:44. | :12:51. | |
had introduced himself I think by e-mail and had sought through Mr | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
Wilkes to set up an interview and Giles Wilkes had declined, knowing | :12:56. | :13:02. | |
my views on the matter. Mr Cable said his officials had repeatedly | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
rebuffed News International's attempts to lobby them personally. | :13:04. | :13:10. | |
Then he made this allegation about News International. I had heard | :13:10. | :13:16. | |
directly and indirectly from colleagues that there had been | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
veiled threats that if I made this wrong decision, from their point of | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
view of the company, my party would be, I think somebody used the | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
afraid "done over" in the News International press. And then on | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
the sting when two Daily Telegraph reporters recorded his hostile | :13:35. | :13:44. | |
remarks about Rupert Murdoch. offload on to them a lot of pent-up | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
feelings, not just about the BSkyB case that I was dealing with but my | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
colleagues in Government and a variety of other issues. Tomorrow | :13:52. | :14:02. | |
explain how his office dealt with News International. | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
The founder of the WikiLeaks website, Julian Assange, has had | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
his appeal against extradition to Sweden rejected by the Supreme | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
Court. He's wanted for questions by the authorities in Sweden about | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
alleged sex offences. Mr Assange's lawyers have been given two weeks | :14:19. | :14:27. | |
to mount a further challenge. One more performance for the Julian | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
Assange legal roadshow. International camera crews and his | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
supporters waited but the founder of WikiLeaks failed to show, caught | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
in traffic. Julian Assange is wanted in Sweden on four counts of | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
rape and sexual molestation. He's been fighting his extradition in | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
the courts for more than a year. The judgment of the Supreme Court | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
should have been the end of it. request for Mr Assange's | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
extradition has been lawfully made and his appeal against extradition | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
is accordingly dismissed. But then there was a final legal twist. His | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
lawyers had spotted something. are therefore currently considering | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
our position and whether or not it will be necessary with great regret | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
to make an application to this court that that matter should be | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
re-opened so that we have an opportunity to argue this points. | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
That point is this - the arrest warrant for Julian Assange was | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
signed here in Sweden, not by a judge but a prosecutor. | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
International law says it must be a judicial authority. Yet the Supreme | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
Court decided the warrant was legal, because in practice this is how | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
many countries do it. Assange's lawyers say they were never given | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
the opportunity of challenging this argument. | :15:47. | :15:55. | |
The majority of judges decided that cost of and practice of the | :15:55. | :16:03. | |
European community in effect trumped the law. So Julian Assange | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
has another throw of the dice in the British courts. The judges have | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
delayed his extradition by another 14 days. His legal team say they | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
will ask for the case to be re- opened. | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
Should the judges reject his case again, Julian Assange would like I | :16:19. | :16:29. | |
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Our main headline - doctors across the UK will take industrial action | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
next month for the first time since the 1970s, over what they call | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
unfair changes to their pensions. And coming up, we are live in | :16:40. | :16:47. | |
Shropshire. The Olympic flame is about to arrive in a very special | :16:47. | :16:57. | |
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In the eurozone, attention is firmly focused on Spain, where | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
borrowing costs rose to their highest levels since it joined the | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
euro. It is now close to levels where other countries have asked | :17:23. | :17:31. | |
for an international bail out. We can get more from Hugh Pym. Yes, | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
let's have a look at those government borrowing costs first. | :17:35. | :17:42. | |
Over 10 years, the normal benchmark, they crept up to 6.7%. When | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
countries get to 7% or beyond, that is widely seen as unsustainable, | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
that is when bail-outs were needed in the other countries, like | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
Portugal and Ireland. One of the big problems is whether they will | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
have enough money to bail out the banking system. They are trying to | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
nationalise this large bank, using 19 billion euros, but there is | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
confusion over how they are going to raise this money. The European | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
Commission has put out its latest health check on many European | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
countries today, and it has said that Spain still faces significant | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
challenges in rebuilding market confidence and securing the | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
sustainability of public finances. It has also said Spain's economy | :18:24. | :18:30. | |
will contract again this year. What about the UK? The commission has | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
called for a report on the UK. It does not call for a Plan B, but it | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
has downgraded its growth forecast slightly for the UK for this year. | :18:39. | :18:45. | |
It says, because unemployment is likely to stay high, it means there | :18:45. | :18:53. | |
will be more of a squeeze on households, due to inflation. | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
sister of the teenager from Warrington allegedly murdered by | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
her parents in 2003 has told the court she felt torn between her | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
sister and her parents. Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed denied charges of | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
murder. Our correspondent Judith Moritz is at Chester Crown Court. | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
What happened in court this morning? Yes, this is the first | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
opportunity the defence team have had to cross-examine Shafilea | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
Ahmed's sister. You will remember that last year, the sister made the | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
allegation to the jury that her parents had suffocated Shafilea | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
Ahmed, and that the jury had been told that allegation was only made | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
in 2010, after the sister herself had been involved in a robbery at | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
the home of her parents, some seven years after the alleged murder of | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
Shafilea Ahmed. The QC for the defence put it to the sister that | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
she had only made the allegation because she had been caught red- | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
handed in the robbery, and she wanted to make up a wicked story to | :19:50. | :19:56. | |
buy herself out of trouble. No, she said, I did not. The lawyer went on | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
to say, you played your trump card, didn't you? You did this to get | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
yourself out of trouble. But she said, I did not do it to get myself | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
out of trouble. She said, at the end of the day, I was feeling | :20:08. | :20:14. | |
really torn, and I still do. And then she broke down on the witness | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
stand and she said quietly, I have got my sister who has died on one | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
side and my parents, who I care about, on the other. The lawyer | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
followed up by saying to her, you feel torn because you're not | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
telling the truth. No, she said, I feel torn because they are my | :20:32. | :20:42. | |
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parents. The editors of the Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror have been | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
sacked. They will be replaced by the former editor of the People, | :20:49. | :20:57. | |
Lloyd Embley. The former chief executive of BP, Lord Browne, is | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
urging business leaders to do more to end discrimination against gay | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
people in the workplace. Lord Browne publicly confirmed he was | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
gay at the end of his 41-year career. He said there was less | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
tolerance of homosexuality in the world of business than in other | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
fields. Is the City and business in general more intolerant of | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
homosexuality than areas like the media or law? That is the claim of | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
one celebrated business chief, who kept his own homosexuality secret | :21:24. | :21:31. | |
for more than 40 years. It was terrifying. You had a private, | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
secret life where you were always worried that someone, somewhere, | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
might see you, and then it might become something which made life | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
intolerable. Lord Browne resigned as chief executive of BP five years | :21:44. | :21:51. | |
ago. He had lied to the High Court about how he had met his partner. | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
He said he had led a double life, and that hiding his sexuality | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
ultimately led to his downfall. was obviously the wrong thing to do. | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
It was the circumstances of my time, not necessarily the circumstances | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
of the time, it is what I thought, which led me to do a very foolish | :22:09. | :22:15. | |
thing. Again, I want to make sure no-one ever gets in that position. | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
Lord Browne entered the oil industry in the 1960s. He said it | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
was a sometimes homophobic environment. Now in the world of | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
finance, he says the problem has not gone away. I don't think there | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
is an issue with sexuality when it comes to getting into the City. The | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
problem comes with sticking with the job, whether you can take the | :22:36. | :22:43. | |
ribbing, get through those early years. I think it would be helpful, | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
we are probably beyond legislating for this kind of thing - I think | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
what would be more helpful would be if more people came out at the top. | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
Companies are more aware of discrimination, but Hannah Mills | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
says they need to do more. He wants to see concrete targets and a | :22:58. | :23:05. | |
simple rule - do not do anything which excludes people. | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
The former President of Liberia Charles Taylor has been sentenced | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
to 50 years for war crimes in Sierra Leone. The judge at a | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
special court in The Hague said he had been responsible for some of | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
the worst atrocities in history. Mitt Romney has officially become | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
the Republican Party's challenger to take on President Obama in | :23:24. | :23:30. | |
November's US election. Romney won a comfortable victory in the Texas | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
primary to secure the nomination. Rescue workers in Italy are | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
continuing to search through the rubble for more survivors after a | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
strong earthquake on Tuesday killed at least 16 people. One woman has | :23:41. | :23:51. | |
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been pulled out alive. The Olympic Torch is arriving in | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
Much Wenlock this lunchtime. The Shropshire town is believed to be | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
the inspiration for the modern Olympic Games. The town held its | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
own Olympics festival for almost half a century before the first | :24:06. | :24:16. | |
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Athens games. Yes indeed, what a wonderful atmosphere here. The | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
flame is about half-a-mile down the road. It is all because of his | :24:21. | :24:27. | |
fellow. Back in 1850, he held the first Olympian games here, a | :24:27. | :24:34. | |
mixture of athletics and a few fun games, like wheelbarrow races. As | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
you say, that formed the modern Olympics. Alison Williamson, about | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
to compete in your sixth Olympics for archery - it all began for you | :24:43. | :24:52. | |
here, didn't it? Yes, I competed at the Wenlock Olympics back in 1982. | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
And there is a real sense of that link, the pride which Much Wenlock | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
house. Definitely, I am from Shropshire, we know the heritage, | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
we know that if it was not for Wenlock, then the Games would never | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
have happened. You have still got family here, you will be running | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
out with the torch in about an hour's time. I have asked lots of | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
torch bearers the same question, but what is your take on it? | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
watched Ben Ainslie on the first day and I got quite emotional. I | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
was thinking about when I would carry it. I have got a lot of | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
family coming to watch, the whole community spirit, everybody has got | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
behind the Olympics, and also, it is the opportunity for the local | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
community, local heroes, people who have raised money for charity and | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
things like that. Very quickly, Zara Phillips last week said this | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
was a welcome distraction from those tense last few weeks. Yes, I | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
trained this morning, and I have got to do another training session | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
later, so, yes, it is a nice little break. Just before we go, Much | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
Wenlock has lent his name to this chap. We will be seeing much more | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
of him, with the legacy of Much Wenlock coming before the world | :26:07. | :26:15. | |
again. It seems just about everything is | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
advertised on television these days, but some advertisements are | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
remembered for the wrong reasons, which is where the Advertising | :26:23. | :26:25. | |
Standards Authority comes in. It has been looking into complaints | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
for 50 years, and has dealt with 400,000 in that time. David Sillito | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
looks back at some of the adverts which have got some of us so | :26:34. | :26:44. | |
:26:44. | :26:45. | ||
exercised. The Government's climate change warning was for some too are | :26:45. | :26:51. | |
alarming. Volkswagen's fighting engineer was too violent. But the | :26:51. | :27:01. | |
:27:01. | :27:03. | ||
most complained about advert in the last 50 years was this... The | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
problem? More than 1,600 people thought it would encourage children | :27:07. | :27:14. | |
to talk with their mouths full. It taps into a growing anxiety - the | :27:14. | :27:20. | |
effect of adverts on children. interesting about advertising is | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
that there is a tension between freedom of expression and | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
protection of children and vulnerable groups. This is | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
something that everyone we speak to agrees with. Children and | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
vulnerable groups must be protected. It is difficult to get the balance | :27:34. | :27:41. | |
right sometimes. One topic really brings complaints - animals. Many | :27:41. | :27:46. | |
did not think this was funny. And all of these adverts are from | :27:46. | :27:50. | |
recent years. It seems we are more prone to complain these days. But | :27:51. | :27:55. | |
some feel advertising is becoming more bland - the need to market | :27:55. | :28:00. | |
globally is bad news for the quirky British style. All the stuff that | :28:00. | :28:05. | |
we know and love, Brits talking to Brits and saying funny things about | :28:06. | :28:15. | |
things which only we recognise, you cannot do any of that. | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
complaining about encouraging bad manners might say something about | :28:19. | :28:25. | |
Britain, but this is an exception. 80% of all complaints are about one | :28:25. | :28:34. | |
topic - is the advert telling the truth? It's time now for the | :28:34. | :28:39. | |
truth? It's time now for the weather forecast. We are seeing the | :28:39. | :28:43. | |
last of the warmth across the south-east of England this | :28:43. | :28:46. | |
afternoon. For many of us, although there is still some sunshine, we | :28:46. | :28:53. | |
will see some showers as well. A desire of weather front across | :28:53. | :28:59. | |
Scotland will be bringing patchy rain. But some places will miss the | :28:59. | :29:08. | |
showers and stay dry. We keep the cloud and rain across parts of | :29:08. | :29:12. | |
Scotland overnight tonight. Another band of rain will be moving into | :29:12. | :29:17. | |
Northern Ireland and parts of Wales. A very different start to the day | :29:17. | :29:23. | |
across Wales tomorrow, with the cloud and the rain. It is a wet | :29:23. | :29:28. | |
start for Northern Ireland as well. The rain will be much more | :29:28. | :29:32. | |
extensive across Scotland than it has been in recent days, but still | :29:32. | :29:36. | |
with some brightness across the far north. That band of rain extends | :29:36. | :29:40. | |
into northern England as well. A little bit damp across parts of the | :29:40. | :29:44. | |
Midlands. But there should be some brightness down across the Southern | :29:44. | :29:49. | |
Counties, where we have still got temperatures starting off at about | :29:49. | :29:59. | |
:29:59. | :29:59. | ||
15. I think and Cornwall should be brightening up as we go through the | :29:59. | :30:05. | |
afternoon. Further north, always keeping the thicker cloud. | :30:05. | :30:09. | |
Underneath the cloud under rain, we have got temperatures around the | :30:09. | :30:19. | |
:30:19. | :30:22. | ||
mid- teens. By the time we get to Friday, the rain is weakening, but | :30:22. | :30:28. | |
pressure is rising to the north, so it becomes drier and brighter. That | :30:28. | :30:31. | |
leads into the all-important Jubilee weekend, which is going to | :30:31. | :30:35. | |
be on the cool side, with average temperatures. We are confident of a | :30:35. | :30:38. | |
dry start to the weekend, but there are some uncertainties in the | :30:38. | :30:42. | |
forecast as we go through the weekend. Saturday, a lot of dry | :30:42. | :30:49. | |
weather, maybe the risk of a few showers in the north-east. You will | :30:49. | :30:54. | |
notice this band of rain sitting across the south-west of England. | :30:54. | :30:58. | |
That's where the uncertainty comes into the forecast. It looks like it | :30:58. | :31:02. | |
will make some progress, bringing with it this band of cloud and rain. | :31:02. | :31:08. | |
But we need to keep an eye on how But we need to keep an eye on how | :31:08. | :31:12. | |
far north that rain is likely to get during Sunday. | :31:12. | :31:18. |