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For the first time an NHS trust is warned it could be declared bust | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
because of its spiralling debts. A political row erupts after South | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
London Healthcare Trust is told it could be dissolved and services may | :00:16. | :00:22. | |
have to be cut. Huge crowds in Enniskillen as the | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
Queen arrives in Northern Ireland at the start of a two-day visit to | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
mark her Diamond Jubilee. A large explosion destroys homes in | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
Oldham. One man is taken to hospital with burns, others could | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
be trapped. We'll have the latest from the scene. | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
A surprise jump in Government borrowing last month after another | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
fall in tax receipts. The head of MI5 warns that | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
businesses in the UK are under threat from an "astonishing" number | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
of cyber attacks. Unearthed in a field in Jersey - | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
two metal detector enthusiasts find what could be the biggest hoard of | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
Iron Age coins ever found in Western Europe. | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
And moving scenes in Doncaster, as Ben Parkinson, the most seriously | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
injured soldier to survive Afghanistan, carries the Olympic | :01:05. | :01:15. | |
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flame. Helping homeless people off the streets - the project which | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
aims to stop a second night out. And keeping up appearances - the | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
residents being paid to spruce up their homes in time for the | :01:25. | :01:35. | |
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Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
A political row has erupted over the decision to start an insolvency | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
process involving an NHS trust in England for the frist time. South | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
London Healthcare, which runs hospitals in Orpington, Sidcup and | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
Woolwich, has already been told it has unsustainable debts and could | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
be the first trust in the UK to be placed under the control of a | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
special administrator. It has debts of almost �70 million. Our health | :02:12. | :02:21. | |
correspondent, Branwen Jeffreys, reports. Facing the administrators, | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
the first NHS Trust on the brink of insolvency. Burdened with paying | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
off the cost of new buildings, all three hospitals in this trust will | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
now be reviewed. A special administrator could be named within | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
weeks, a process being used for the first time in England. They are | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
costing the taxpayer unsustainable amounts of money, over the 30-year | :02:45. | :02:52. | |
period it is going to cost �2.5 billion a year, it is costing the | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
trust �60 million a year in payments. Queen Mary's in Sidcup is | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
one of the three hospitals. Within the last three years its A&E and | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
maternity department have been closed, so local anxiety about the | :03:05. | :03:12. | |
hospital is high. The services have dropped so far, it is just | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
absolutely disgusting. absolutely gutted. I was an | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
inpatient here not so long ago and was so impressed with the | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
cleanliness inside the hospital. hope they sort them out. I would | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
hate to see anything happen to the hospital. The total PFI cost for | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
the hospitals is estimated at �2.5 billion. To pay the loan overall | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
costs �61 million a year, that's more than 14% of the trust's income. | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
Today Labour accepted that some early PFI deals were poor value for | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
money, but defended its investment in hospitals. The big picture is up | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
till 1997 we had no new hospitals being built at all Constituencies | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
across the country people were crying out for decent health care. | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
We built tens of new hospitals. Almost 20 other hospitals in | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
England face severe financial problems. Different solutions are | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
being found in each area, but experts say the Government has made | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
its intentions clear. This is encouraging other hospitals to | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
improve their performance or risk having the administrator sent in to | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
help them, a strong signal from the Government it won't stand for | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
hospitals with big financial deficits or quality problems. | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
That's why what happens in these three London hospitals will be | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
watched so very closely by the NHS across England. | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
Our political correspondent Norman Smith is in Westminster. This is | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
turning into something of a blame game now isn't it? Sophie, there's | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
a lot of political ping finger pointing going on, with the | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
Government blaming the last Labour administration for extending the | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
Private Finance Initiative which led to hospitals buying new | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
hospitals which they couldn't afford. Labour says no, the cost of | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
the NHS reforms and costly reorganisation. My sense is there | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
may be a broader truth. When you speak to health analysts or former | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
health secretaries of both parties, they all agree, the problem is we | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
have too many hospitals. We have something like 200 hospitals and | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
the argument goes that many of the services they provide could be | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
effectively provided in the community. The difficulty is no | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
Government wants to preside over a hospital closure programme. But in | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
South London, although Ministers at the moment are saying it is | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
premature to talk about cuts, when you talk to health experts, they | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
say one of the three hospitals in the South London trust may have to | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
close. Norman, thank you. | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
The Queen is in Northern Ireland today for two days of events to | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
mark her Diamond Jubilee. This morning she attended a church | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
service at Enniskillen, where 12 people were killed by an IRA bomb | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
in 1987. Tomorrow she's due to meet Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness, a | :05:54. | :05:55. | |
former IRA commander. Our royal correspondent, Nicholas Witchell, | :05:56. | :06:05. | |
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is in Enniskillen. The Queen has made 19 visits to Northern Ireland | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
during the course of her reign, but for so many years of her reign | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
Northern Ireland was enduring the trauma of the Troubles. More than | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
anything really this Jubilee visit marks Northern Ireland's growing | :06:17. | :06:26. | |
confidence and return to normality. No place she will visit in this | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
Jubilee year will offer quite such a cause for hope as the Northern | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
Ireland of 2012. CHEERING And to underline that point her | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
very first destination is emblematic of the province's | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
transformation. This was the town of Enniskillen on Remembrance | :06:43. | :06:49. | |
Sunday in 1987. The IRA had exploded a bomb at the town's war | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
memorial. 11 people were killed, one more died later. It was one of | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
the most shocking atrocities of the Troubles. | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
A quarter of a century on from the Remembrance Day bomb, the Queen | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
came to Enniskillen to a service of Thanksgiving for the 60 years of | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
her reign, but also in a sense for the tranquillity that Northern | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
Ireland has found for itself. The Roman Catholic Primate of All | :07:13. | :07:21. | |
Ireland led the prayers for peace. Together may we build a home that | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
welcomes all, seeks your justice and lives in peace. And the Church | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
of Ireland Archbishop recalls the Queen's historic visit to the | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
Republic of Ireland last year, which had done so much to promote | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
understanding. For many it was an occasion of profound significance | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
and deep emotion. Shackles which had been steadily loosening since | :07:47. | :07:57. | |
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the ceasefires and the Belfast Agreement finally fell away. | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
the most remarkable moment of this visit and perhaps the most telling | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
indication of how much things have changed here will occur tomorrow | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
when in man, Martin McGuinness, the Deputy First Minister of Northern | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
Ireland, will meet the Queen. This is the Martin McGuinness who was | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
once one of Northern Ireland's most wanted republicans, an IRA | :08:18. | :08:26. | |
commander active in the republican movement at the time when the IRA | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
murdered Lord Mountbatten. Now Martin McGuinness says it is time | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
for reconciliation. The Queen herself lost someone who was a | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
member of her family. So I think it is important that we all recognise | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
that we are in a different place. After the service, the Queen held a | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
private meeting with some of those who were bereaved by the | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
Enniskillen bombing of 25 years ago, a reminder of grievous wounds that | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
can never be forgotten but coupled now with ever-deepening hopes that | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
Northern Ireland's communities can live in peace together. And in the | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
last few minutes after that private meeting with some of the bereaved | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
relatives, the Queen has left the Church of Ireland Cathedral and | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
walked across the road to St Michael's Roman Catholic Church, | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
and it is believed to be the first time the Queen has visited a Roman | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
Catholic Church in Northern Ireland. And within the church she is | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
meeting youth groups and others, accompanied by clergy from all the | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
denominations in Northern Ireland. So once again the theme very much | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
of this two-day Jubilee visit to Northern Ireland, the theme of | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
reconciliation between Northern Ireland's communities. | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
Nick, thank you. There's been a bigger than expected | :09:40. | :09:41. | |
surge in Government borrowing because of the recession. The | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
Office for National Statistics says it rose to nearly �18 billion in | :09:45. | :09:52. | |
May. A lot of this is down to another drop in tax receipts? | :09:52. | :10:00. | |
Indeed. Surprisingly poor figures, up from �15.2 billion the previous | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
year. The Treasury says there were special factors, there often are. | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
Spending was up a lot, because the spending of tax receipts was | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
brought forward because of the Jubilee bank holiday, but they are | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
acknowledging that income tax receipts fell by about 7%. That's | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
the cost of recession, which will be worrying for the Chancellor. | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
Labour have said this is a nail in the coffin of the Government's | :10:24. | :10:33. | |
policy. If you choke the recession, you will borrow more. The Governor | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
of the Bank of England has been speaking to MPs this morning | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
Mervyn King was gloomy about the economic globally. Talking about a | :10:43. | :10:50. | |
cloud of uncertainty hanging over the world. I am pessimistic and I'm | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
particularly concerned because I think for two years now we've seen | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
the situation in the euro area get worse, with the problem being | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
pushed down the road and not being gripped. I think what's | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
particularly concerned me in the last several months, why I voted | :11:05. | :11:11. | |
for more easing policy, was I was concerned about the worsening that | :11:11. | :11:17. | |
I see in the position in Asia and in other emerging markets. And my | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
colleagues in the United States more concerned than they were at | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
the beginning of the year about what's happening to the American | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
economy, so this is not a comfortable position to be in. | :11:28. | :11:34. | |
Mervyn King speaking earlier to MPs He talked about an easing of policy. | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
There were strong hints there from ser Mervyn and colleagues that the | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
Bank of England they would create more money with their quantitative | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
easing policy next months. Thank you P | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
Emergency services are at the scene of a large suspected gas explosion | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
in Oldham. A man with severe burns has been taken to hospital after a | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
number of homes were damaged by the blast this morning. There have been | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
reports that people could be trapped beneath the rubble. Ed | :11:57. | :12:06. | |
Thomas is at the scene. -- Megan Patterson is there. What's the | :12:06. | :12:12. | |
latest? We know so far that the explosion happened at around | :12:12. | :12:19. | |
11.15am on Buckey street? Shaw. One person has been taken to hospital. | :12:19. | :12:25. | |
That person is suffering 80% burns. It is unclear if anyone else has | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
been injured in what's described as a large explosion by police. | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
Ambulance crews and the Fire Service are still on scene. They | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
are treating this as an active rescue mission. They do believe | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
there are people unaccounted for who lived on that street. A number | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
of families have been evacuated from the street. The advice from | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
police is for people to stay away from Buckley street? Shaw in Oldham | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
until the scene has been secured. At the moment the cause isn't clear, | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
but we do know that engineers from the National Grid are on site, | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
investigating. We also know that that operation is likely to | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
continue for a number of hours. The emergency services at the moment | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
are trying to locate anyone who might be trapped in that row of | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
terraced houses in Oldham. began, thank you. | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
-- Megan. Thousands of people lined the | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
streets of Doncaster this morning as the most seriously injured | :13:24. | :13:32. | |
soldier to survive Afghanistan carried the Olympic torch. | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
Ben Parkinson was determined to carry the Olympic flame this | :13:35. | :13:43. | |
morning. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
A quite extraordinary achievement for the Paratroop here was never | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
expected to even regain consciousness after almost every | :13:51. | :13:57. | |
part of his body was injured in a land mine explosion. | :13:57. | :14:03. | |
But determined to walk again, the 27-year-old was also determined to | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
cross the 300 metres without crutches. The huge crowds and | :14:08. | :14:18. | |
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cheers overwhelming support of every step of the way. | :14:18. | :14:28. | |
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I felt nothing. All these people helped him along. Come on, push! | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
Despite losing both legs, suffering severe brain injuries and a broken | :14:37. | :14:43. | |
spine, he battled to walk again on prosthetic limbs. And after he was | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
so severely hurt in action, his family fought successfully for | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
better compensation for injured soldiers. He said he could do it. | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
He's proved he can do it. People have always told Ben what he can't | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
do and he doesn't buy can't do. the torch continued on its route, | :15:03. | :15:13. | |
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Ben Parkinson showed his journey Our top story. A political row | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
erupts after a NHS trust in England is warned for the first time it | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
could declared bust because of debts. And coming up. I am live at | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
Wimbledon where Andy Murray is warming up ahead of his first match. | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
There has been a strong start from another Briton too. Later on BBC | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
London, a senior figure from the security service tell us the threat | :15:38. | :15:45. | |
from British Muslim extremist is a top priority and a look back at the | :15:45. | :15:53. | |
1984 games, what London can learn from LA. The head of MI5 as warned | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
that businesses in the UK are under threat from an astonishing number | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
of cyber attacks. Jonathan Evans says Al-Qaeda is spreading its | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
operations into new countries, with about 200 British residents | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
currently thought to be involved with militant groups in places like | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
Libya and Egypt. Our security correspondent reports. I am Geoff I | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
am the director general of the security service MI5. It is our job | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
to keep this country safe from terrorism. Espionage and other | :16:24. | :16:30. | |
national security threats. Last night the MI5 chief gave his | :16:30. | :16:36. | |
assessment of the threat we face. This is the operation room of MI5, | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
the nerve centre. One major concern he said in his off camera speech | :16:41. | :16:47. | |
was computer security, all know not a cyber attack the problems the RBS | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
bank has faced show the risk. He said one company lost �800 million | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
in revenue, as a result of a cyber attack by another country. He said | :16:57. | :17:03. | |
the extent of what is going on is astonishing. Cyber attacks are very | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
attractive to nation states because if they are carried out properly, | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
they are cheap and they have the additional advantage people tend | :17:11. | :17:17. | |
not the die. He also warned the Arab Spring poses danger, | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
instability in countries like Yemen has provided a more perm sieve | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
environment for Al-Qaeda to operate. Some Britons had been travelling | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
tout countries in the Middle East to fight, MI5's worry is about what | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
they might do next. Some will return to the UK and pose a threat | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
here, he said. This is a new and worrying development. In the | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
immediate future the Olympics are the main focus for MI5. An | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
attractive but not an easy target for terrorists. Jonathan Evans said | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
after that he made clear last night he still sees other threats on the | :17:50. | :17:57. | |
horizon. One of the UK's best known landmarks is to be renamed in | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
honour of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee after a campaign by MPs. | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
The tower housing Big Ben is to be renamed the Elizabeth tower in | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
honour of the 60 year reign. It has been known as the clock tower. The | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
House of Commons authorities have agreed the change of name but the | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
bell will be still called Big Ben. NatWest and RBS said the computer | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
problem has been resolved in 99% of case, but the glitch is still | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
preventing balances being updated for many customers of Ulster Bank | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
which is part of the same group. The Governor of the Bank of England | :18:32. | :18:38. | |
says there needs to be an inquiry into what happened. The way we use | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
electricity has been studied closely and the results are | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
surprising, televisions are on for more than six hours a day on | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
average and many households are wasting almost �100 a year by | :18:51. | :18:59. | |
leaving devices on stand by all day. Powering up for another busy day. | :18:59. | :19:07. | |
In this kitchen, the appliances were working hard this morning.. | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
Sophie. Have you got your stuff ready? This family tries to switch | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
things off when they are not using them. But modern life means there | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
are still gadgets on stand by. can no longer turn off the | :19:20. | :19:27. | |
television, which is annoying. can't turn it off. If I do it | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
upsets all the controls. I have vowed this year never to turn the | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
TV off at the socket before I go to bed. I have had to change my habits | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
in a bad way. Even if you are losing money? I have made a | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
decision I would rather spend a couple of extra quid a month, maybe, | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
and not be told off in the morning by my children, I have ruined their | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
programmes. But those couple of quid a month soon mount up. Today, | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
the biggest study of its kind reveals the silent cost of leaving | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
appliances on stand by. The average household spends �86 a year, | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
powering items that aren't being used. For the UK as a whole, that | :20:11. | :20:17. | |
is a stand by bill of �1.3 billion. What we would like manufacturers to | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
do? The design of products really focus on reducing the energy | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
running costs for the customers, and that has to be keeping the cost | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
down when a product is used in on mode, when people are interacting | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
with it, but keeping the cost down so it is cheap to run when it has | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
to be left in stand by. With more and more technology in our homes, | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
it seems we are spending twice as much on stand by power, as | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
previously thought. People who live on their own often spend as much as | :20:48. | :20:56. | |
big families, because they still have just as many gadgets. Councils | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
acost cross England and Wales have warned they will face a funding | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
crisis because of the rising cost of caring for elderly and | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
vulnerable people. The Local Government Association says | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
councils will face an annual short fall of more than �16 billion by | :21:09. | :21:16. | |
2020. In the future will there be enough money for councils to | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
maintain the roads? Keep swimming pools open or provide any librarys? | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
Local authorities say the funding squeeze will go on for year, bad | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
news for those who think councils are already struggling to deal with | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
simple problems. You can see the state of the roads already, they | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
are diabolical, particularly when from the cyclists point of view it | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
is lethal. If they got any worse it would worry me. Councils have | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
bigger bills to worry about. The cost of looking after older people, | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
the disable and those with chronic illness is set to rise and rise. At | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
the same time the money councils have coming in could fall. The | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
result says the Local Government Association, a funding short fall | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
of �16.5 billion by 2020. All those things that everybody uses, they | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
may not realise they are using it but they are, will come under | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
severe pressure, and will become unaffordable because we are paying | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
so much for care of the elderly, and some other things we have no | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
control over. Today, hundreds of councillors are gathering here in | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
Birmingham for their annual conference, and digesting the | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
implications of these forecasts, right opposite they can see one big | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
example. The huge new library is being built, but in the future will | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
there be the money for this kind pro-reject? The Government says it | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
has given councils new freedoms to raise and keep extra money. Local | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
authoritys are being told to look for efficiency savings rather than | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
cut services, but ministers say ta there won't be much extra funding | :22:46. | :22:53. | |
until the deficit comes down. billion, still goes to local | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
Government but more to the point, we are freeing up local authoritys | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
in the way in which they spend money and how they can raise it, so | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
we are localising a proportion of the business rate so local | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
authorities can profit by encouraging growth in their areas. | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
But councils say there are limits to their ability to raise funds | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
locally or do more with less, and that without reform the costs of | :23:16. | :23:23. | |
social care could overwhelm everything else. Lot us go to | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
Wimbledon where Andy Murray takes to Centre Court this afternoon as | :23:27. | :23:33. | |
he begins husband latest attempt to become the first British man to win | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
Wimbledon in more than 70 years. Andy Murray started warming up not | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
long ago and he posed for some photos with fans beforehand as well. | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
It is a Murray double whammy, a bit later Jamie Murray resumes his | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
doubles match from last night and then at 5.00, it is all eyes on | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
Centre Court. Before the big British action, a rare treat for | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
those who happen to be taking in the sun out ow on court 11. The | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
king of clay come to the grass. Rafael Nadal, 11 times Grand Slam | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
winner plays just before Murray on Centre Court and as always, looms | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
large in the draw. If Murray is going to play Nadal in the | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
semifinal he would have had five matches and his glaim will be in | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
great shape. You have a new challenge every day and Andy has to | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
deal with Davydenko first. Yes, one game at a time. Murray will need to | :24:28. | :24:34. | |
play better than he has had recently if he is to get past his | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
Russian opponent. He went out in the quarterfinals of the French | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
Open and the defending champion at Queens he lost his first match, so | :24:41. | :24:48. | |
he is short of practise on the grass. Even Murray's fans today | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
accept Davydenko is capable of what would be a monumental upset. | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
will have a tough time, I think. has a tough draw, but davdenkoe, it | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
should be a tough match but I think he will be fine. Hopefully three | :25:02. | :25:08. | |
sets. He has had three semifinals so far, so fourth time lucky and | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
London 2012, it has to be year for the Britons to win. But Murray is | :25:12. | :25:18. | |
not the the only object of British adoreration, last night, Heather | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
Watson recorded her first Wimbledon win in front of a delighted Centre | :25:22. | :25:31. | |
Court crowd. Will Murray's beam be as broad this afternoon? Some | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
tantalising tennis on the way here, particularly on Centre Court which | :25:36. | :25:42. | |
starts off with the defending women's champion. She is not really | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
followed up on the success, since then Rafa and Andy Murray, how is | :25:46. | :25:53. | |
this for another promising British story on court three. Laura Robson, | :25:53. | :25:59. | |
she took the first set, went into a third set decider. Let us hope Andy | :25:59. | :26:05. | |
Murray was taking notes! Two men on Jersey have found what is thought | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
to be one of the largest hoard of coins. The coins are believed to be | :26:10. | :26:17. | |
worth up to �10 million. This was one of Jersey's best kept secrets, | :26:17. | :26:24. | |
for 30 years, two metal detectorist suspected there was tresh to be | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
found but even they had no idea how much. The rumours started after a | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
farmer uncovered silver coins his land. But they were a mere hint of | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
what was found this week. Cemented together in the mud, half a tonne | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
of coin, Roman and Celtic dating back to the first century BC. | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
Looking down we can see hundreds of coins and they are cemented | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
together. We know they are the top of a thick layer, like a crust. We | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
don't know whether that hoard is five sent metres 20 or 30. There | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
hasn't been a hoard found like this in my life and my career. No-one | :27:02. | :27:08. | |
knows how many coins lay buried here, the last discovery in Jersey | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
brought 11,000 to light, this time there could be five times that | :27:11. | :27:19. | |
number. The authorities in the island are trying to establish the | :27:19. | :27:24. | |
ownership of a find worth millions. The site will be protected while | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
research is carried out but the hope is the collection will remain | :27:27. | :27:35. | |
in the Channel Islands, as a showpiece of Jersey's distant past. | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
Now, imagine finding this in your gadge when you get home this is | :27:40. | :27:45. | |
what Judy Coover discovered at her home in Lake Tahoe, a bear by bear | :27:45. | :27:49. | |
had become trached the door closed and the bear's mother came to the | :27:49. | :27:56. | |
rescue, by opening the garage door. But then, all it took was finally a | :27:56. | :28:05. | |
ladder. It allowed her little cub to get down safely. The little baby | :28:05. | :28:11. | |
knew exactly what to do. I am not sure I would have stayed filming | :28:11. | :28:14. | |
with two bears in my garage! Let us leave that and look at the weather | :28:14. | :28:17. | |
leave that and look at the weather with Nina. We have sunshine at the | :28:17. | :28:20. | |
moment in Wimbledon but it is going to cloud over in the next couple of | :28:20. | :28:25. | |
hour, there is more cloud in the west, and for many of us that cloud | :28:25. | :28:29. | |
takes over. Some patchy rairpbg it is not every where but at times it | :28:29. | :28:34. | |
has been heavy. We have the thickest of the cloud. It is | :28:34. | :28:38. | |
pushing north and east, and for the rest of the afternoon. Southern | :28:38. | :28:41. | |
Scotland clouding over and here we are likely to see rain which could | :28:41. | :28:45. | |
be heavy for the afternoon. For the North East of Scotland we hold on | :28:45. | :28:49. | |
to drier, brighter weather in the Northern Isles. Much of the rain | :28:49. | :28:53. | |
for northern England is patchy and light, a similar story across the | :28:53. | :29:00. | |
Midlands, but along the coast of East Anglia here some sunshine. | :29:00. | :29:05. | |
East Kent should stay bright. The cloud is with us as we move along | :29:05. | :29:10. | |
the south coast, also some misty murky conditions with patchy rain, | :29:10. | :29:14. | |
a similar store raise we head north to Wales where temperatures should | :29:14. | :29:18. | |
reach the mid to high teens, for Northern Ireland little change, | :29:18. | :29:24. | |
still outbreaks of rain so it could be heavy at time, our main area of | :29:24. | :29:28. | |
rain pushing northwards across Scotland and that is followed by a | :29:28. | :29:33. | |
few showers. As our weather front pushes northwards it is dragging | :29:33. | :29:37. | |
warm, muggy and humid air. So temperatures tonight staying in the | :29:38. | :29:43. | |
mid to high teen, a very warm night. It is just the North East corner of | :29:43. | :29:48. | |
Scotland where it stays a touch cooler with temperatures of nine to | :29:48. | :29:51. | |
11. After some brightness tomorrow is looking cloudier with outbreaks | :29:51. | :29:55. | |
of rain. We keep that rain through Scotland, Northern Ireland and | :29:55. | :29:59. | |
parts of northern England. Further south, the cloud may break up to | :29:59. | :30:03. | |
give with it sunshine but we still have the humid air. Temperatures | :30:03. | :30:07. | |
possibly into the mid 20s and there is the chance that could trigger | :30:07. | :30:12. | |
heavy and possibly thundery showers. Those heavy thundery showers along | :30:12. | :30:16. | |
with the humid weather stay through the day on Thursday. It is cloudy | :30:16. | :30:19. | |
in Northern Ireland and Scotland, and here we could have rain, which | :30:19. | :30:23. | |
is heavy at times. The wind will pick up through the day, with | :30:23. | :30:27. | |
temperatures here in the mid teen, we could have temperatures in the | :30:27. | :30:32. | |
mid 20s further south. All of that humid air isn't with us for long. | :30:32. | :30:37. | |
By Thursday we see a cold weather front sweeping across the country. | :30:37. | :30:41. | |
That introduces a drop in temperature back down to the mid | :30:41. | :30:44. | |
teens but we still keep low pressure, so there will be more | :30:44. | :30:49. | |
cloud, showers or longer spells of rain. You can find more details on | :30:49. | :30:55. | |
line. Let us go back to that large line. Let us go back to that large | :30:55. | :30:58. | |
suspected gas explosion in Oldham. We are hearing a number of people | :30:58. | :31:03. | |
are unaccounted for. Yes, the Fire Service still believes some people | :31:03. | :31:06. | |
could be trapped inside this house, people who live here say they | :31:07. | :31:11. | |
thought a bomb had exploded earlier this morning. Police have described | :31:11. | :31:14. | |
this as a Major Incident Team. Come down here and it is not hard to see | :31:14. | :31:20. | |
why. The explosion is just behind this Fire Service vehicle there. | :31:20. | :31:23. | |
The ambulance incident response unite is here and the police have | :31:23. | :31:27. | |
cordoned off the streets here. One person has been taken to hospital | :31:27. | :31:32. | |
with severe burn, the big question is are more people trapped in this | :31:32. | :31:34. |