14/08/2012 BBC News at One

It means a hike in rail fares with passengers in England facing

increases of more than 6%. The eurozone is edging closer to

recession - latest figures show the economy there shrank in the three

months to June. as the UN's Baroness Amos arrives

in Syria asking for more visas to be given to aid workers.

Car production at Jaguar Land Rover steps up a gear - their plant at

Halewood on Merseyside will now be working round the clock.

And what would YOU do with �148 million? That's the problem facing

this couple - just unveiled as Britain's second biggest-ever

I checked it on my phone, the TV and the internet and thought, you

could be right. Then we looked at each other and just giggled.

Later on BBC London: The economic impact on the capital

post-Olympic Games and the Tottenham a year on, but its slow

regeneration may have spelled Good afternoon and welcome to the

BBC News at One O'Clock. Rail commuters in England will face

price hikes double the rate of inflation when they come into force

next year. Many tickets will rise by more than 6% and some will rise

by even more. The Government says the money will pay for improvements

to the railways, but commuters and unions have reacted with anger.

There'll be lesser increases in Scotland, as our transport

correspondent, Richard Westcott, There's one thing you can rely on

with the trains, regular above- inflation fare rises. In England,

regulated fares, which account for about half of all fares, are

calculated at the rate of inflation plus 3%. That means an average rise

of 6.2% starting next January. So a yearly season ticket from

Manchester to Leeds goes up from �2,344 to nearly �2,500. A commuter

currently paying �4,000 to go into London from Bedford would pay �250

more. I don't think it is value for money. Every trying and getting the

morning, you have to stand up, sometimes you can't get money.

think it is good value for money. The station is behind the flat

where I live. I enjoy going on the train, it gives me a chance to go

into straight -- into work in a stress-free way, but if the train

fares go up, I might consider my car. We are approaching the 10th

consecutive year of above-inflation fare rises. Even the last transport

secretary admitted the railways were becoming a rich man's toy so

the government knows how creepily need expensive the fares are for

many, why does it keep putting the fares up? The key problem is cost.

We need to get the cost of running the railways down. We have

published a reform planned for roughage -- for efficiency savings.

We believe we can see an end to above-inflation fare rises. That is

the long-term way to respond to the concerns people are expressing.

other words, fares will be going up for some years yet. Ultimately, the

government wants a half what it spends on the railways, and that

means users will pay a lot more. think at a time when the economy is

flatlining, when households are under pressure not just from the

cost of travel, but also from childcare, housing, food costs, or

going up, we think for government should not be imposing these kinds

of above-inflation rises on ordinary households. This is

Glasgow this morning, a protest against fare rises. The Scottish

government has decided on a smaller increase than in England. It is

still going up 1% above inflation. There's no decision yet for Wales

and Northern Ireland. So passengers will see prices go up in the new

year, just as motorists face a tax rise on a litre of fuel.

As we've been hearing, those rail fare increases are calculated on

the RPI inflation figures published this morning. They include housing

costs and rose 3.2% in July. Our economics editor, Stephanie

Flanders, joins me. This is a surprise because inflation was on

the way down. Yes, it is disappointing, particularly for

people facing higher rail fares. If you look at what is driving this

rise, which mostly people were not expecting, it looks like short-term

factors. Last month inflation fell more quickly than people expected

partly because clothing shops have had to cut prices earlier in the

summer than usual. If they cut them in June, they can't cut them again

in July. We have had less of that effect in these figures. Also a

sharp rise in air fares, which looks more like a one-off. People

were saying it was asked booking flights to eurozone -- the eurozone

when the rain was heavy earlier in the summer. Things like that seemed

to have driven these figures. Looking ahead, most people are

expecting inflation to come down sharply in the next few months. We

will be back towards 2%. That will help people in terms of their

household expenditure, even if they are facing those rail fares.

eurozone as a financial centre is the big uncertainty. Yes. We've had

some figures for the eurozone GDP in the second quarter of this year

today and they show the eurozone as a whole shrinking by 0.2%. It is

not formally in recession yet because it managed to be in

positive territory at the beginning of the year, but there's weakness

across the board. Germany just managing to grow, but countries

like Spain, Italy and Portugal are now in recession. In the next few

months, even though the euro has stayed together, the uncertainty

hanging over the eurozone has affected the global recovery and it

could well see the eurozone in recession, even Germany, in the

next few months. Thank you. The eurozone edged closer to

recession today, with the 17 countries that use the euro

shrinking by 0.2% between April and June. There was no growth in France

and Germany reported only sluggish growth. Our correspondent Steve

Even Europe's biggest economy is slowing down. In Germany, it is

still growth, no recession here, but at half the pace of the start

of the year. Growth but slowing. 40% of Germany's trade is with the

rest of the eurozone so problems in the weaker Mediterranean countries

slowly even the strongest down. Germany starts slowing down, that

will be a headache for European leaders because the only source of

decent economic growth in the eurozone is slowly disappearing.

The sooner Europe get its house in order and confidence is restored,

the sooner British exporters will see good news. Big exporters here

are bracing themselves. This company makes very high end hi-fi

equipment. It goes into Porsche cars, as well as high income homes.

The founder thinks Germany will weather the storm. If Adams needs a

new system for traffic lights, they don't have their own production,

they have to buy from us. As long as we are able to deliver what the

world needs, we are in a good France reported its economy as

bumping along at about zero growth. Not quite recession, but certainly

not enough to relieve unemployment. And it increases the pressure on

President Holland to stimulate the economy. Just the kind of

government spending Chancellor Merkel doesn't like. These figures

indicate that governments throughout the eurozone will find

it much harder to balance their finances as the situation gets

worse. They also mean that governments inside the eurozone and

outside can't expect increased strong growth any time soon. They

indicate that the economic pressure is rising.

The French President says his government will do everything

needed to ensure it law and order after rioting overnight in a

northern city. Clashes between youths and police left two schools

burn down and dozens of cars destroyed. Christian Fraser is in

Paris. We've been keeping our eye on this for the past couple of

nights and it has been getting progressively worse. If 100 youths

last night facing off against a similar number of police, running

battles, 16 officers were injured by buckshot or fireworks. No

arrests, but plenty of damage. One official saying as much as one

million euros of damage. There's great interest in France in the

riots in London last year. The concern here is that incidents like

this might spread to other suburbs and other cities around the country.

It did in 2005 when they have three weeks of violence. Francois Hoyland

-- Francois Hollande has been saying security is not just a

priority, it is an absolute obligation. You can be sure they

will try to keep a lid on it tonight.

A south London council will conduct a serious case review following the

death of 12-year-old Tia Sharp. Tia was reported missing on 3rd August

- her body was found at her grandmother's house on Friday.

Merton Council will conduct the review, done after the death of a

child where abuse or neglect is known or suspected.

Baroness Amos, the UN's emergency relief coordinator, has arrived in

the Syrian capital Damascus to see how aid can reach the estimated two

million people caught up in the civil war. Diplomats are warning

that unless the violence eases, it will be impossible to gain access

to the worst affected regions. Damascus is becoming an almost

impossible place for diplomats to do business. But led by Lady Amos,

the strategy of the UN is to keep trying. For mission this time, to

establish whether anything can be done to make daily life better as

the situation on the ground gets worse. For many Syrian civilians,

things are getting grimmer. There's not enough food, the situation will

get worse as it is too dangerous in any rate just -- regions for

farmers to collect a harvest. Medicines are getting scarce.

Factories that make them are going out of production. Millions of

civilians have fled their homes to seek refuge elsewhere in Syria.

About 150,000 have crossed into neighbouring countries. Looking

after those refugees costs around $200 million this year alone. The

former prime minister, the highest- profile figure so far to defect

from the Syrian government, has been speaking for the first time

since his escape to Jordan. His message is simple, President

Assad's days are numbered. TRANSLATION: Your revolution is an

example to the world. In my experience, the regime is

collapsing morally, financially and militarily. It only holds 30% of

Syrian land. But in Damascus, Aleppo and beyond, the fighting

goes on for top people can't get the help they need and and -- until

the guns fall silent. Even if the political will is there, it will be

hard to get aid into the country while violence continues.

There is some good news on the economy - because of huge demand

for their cars, workers at the Jaguar Land Rover plant at Halewood

on Merseyside are moving to round- the-clock production for the first

time in the plant's history. 1,000 more jobs have been created at the

plant, as the company meets demand, particularly from foreign markets.

Our correspondent Nick Ravenscroft So often, the news across the

economy is gloomy and there have been concerns about jobs and the

car industry as well, but analysts say we are beginning to turn a

corner. Here at Halewood, production is moving up a gear.

A Jaguar Land Rover, sales are booming. To meet demand, they had

to start working around-the-clock. That has meant 1,000 new jobs in

the last few months. Absolutely brilliant. I got employed 12 weeks

ago so I've only done 12 weeks, but it's given me the chance of a job

for the future. About the most positive we've been for a long time.

It looked bad a few years ago, but with his new car it is great.

Merseyside has not always had it so good. When the Halewood plant was

built 50 years ago, they made Ford cars. Jaguar took over in the 1990s,

and today is the first time in its history that the factory has been

run 24 hours a day. Unveiled last year, it is the Range Rover Evoque

which is driving growth. So far nearly 90,000 have been sold. Four

out of five are for export to emerging markets such as China. But

the picture was not always so rosy. Four years ago, Jaguar Land Rover

was in serious trouble and there were questions about whether the

company even had a future. Those questions were being asked and we

were asking them ourselves. We made decisions to ensure we predicted a

future of the two brand we have, protect the business and the

employees. Those decisions were proven to be correct. It is not

just at Jaguar Land Rover. Across the UK car industry, business is

the UK car industry, business is picking up. In 2009, one by one

million vehicles were sold. Last million vehicles were sold. Last

year it was 1.42 6 million. This year they are hoping to break 1.5

million. Things us north -- move in the UK car industry, but rough

patches remain for up across Europe there is overcapacity in some

sectors and Continental sales have been weak.

Those economic problems mean there are still problems for people in

the UK who might welcome the manufacturing industry, the car

industry. Five months ago, they advertised for 1,000 people to come

and join the new shifts here. They had 30,000 applications. Today's

news is encouraging, but we are long way from being out of the

Our top story: Price hikes for rail commuters in England and Scotland.

The Government says the money will pay for improvements but commuters

have reacted with anger. Coming up: Tributes to Helen Gurley Brown, the

long-time editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, who has died, aged 90. On

BBC London: The Hackney residents who documented the other side of

the Olympic Games. And how West Ham Football Club has been helping to

support one of our East End Olympians. And we have the weather

forecast from Peter Cockcroft. A couple from Suffolk who've won a

staggering �148 million say new cars will be near the top of their

shopping list. --. The company behind Penguin Books

and the Financial Times, are to be offering undergraduate degreesment

stkpwhrch Pearson is the first FTSE 1 hundred company to teach an

undergraduate degree. It is starting small, hoping for 40

students this September. It'll charge �6,500, nearly �2,000 less

than the average, in England. It aims in a few years to turn Pearson

College into a profit-making business.

The vast majority of students in the UK, at present go, to

traditional universities. Privately-run institutions, either

charities or for profit, are less than 1% of the sector. Pearson

hopes to start changing that. This looks like a boardroom but will be

a classroom, with views over the Thames. Students here will learn in

a business environment. What we are doing here, is we are

giving students the opportunity to study for their business degree

within a business. That makes a lot of sense. We can bring our 150

years of commercial experience, our academic heritage, through our

publishing into benefits for our students in studying the programme.

But its aim of eventually turning a profit is controversial. Pearson

expects its students to be eligible for student loans of �6,000, money

provided by the taxpayer. Institutions like Pearson are for-

profit companies, they have a primary obligation to their

shareholders and they need to be very tightly regulated. At the

moment they are less well regulated, less tightly regulated than

traditional colleges or universities and that seems to us a

recipe for disaster. The Government would like to see many more

colleges like Pearson set up, but it does recognise that private

institutions don't undergo the same strict quality checks as public

universities and will be consulting about tightening the rules, soon.

The pioneering disability campaign, Lord Morris of Manchester has died

at the age of 84 as Alf Morris he was Labour MP for Wythenshawe for

many years and Britain's First Minister for disabled people. This

morning the Labour Leader, Ed Miliband said he would be greatly

missed by the millions of people who benefited from his achievements.

Alf Morris's future was forged in the horrors of the First World War.

His father, a sign-writer, lost a leg and an eye serving his country

and returned unemployable. His country offered him little in

return. Alf, later Lord Morris, grew up to change the rules for

disabled people, and the way they are seen by the rest of society.

Under a Harold Wilson he became the first minute sister for disabled

issues, but he is remembered not for a job title but for the legacy

of a bill. He promoted legislation that in 1970 gave disabled people

the right to get into buildings. A change that altered the face of

many high streets. It entitled them top help in adapting their own

homes and access to crucial services outside their doors.

greatest contribution was he transformed the way people in

Britain see disabilities. He changed the law and that was great

in itself and gave real legal rights, but in changing the law,

Alf help to change the way people saw the whole issue. Later

generations of politicians didn't forget his contribution. Before the

act no-one even counted the number of disabled people in need.

Afterwards things were different. Lord Morris didn't believe his act

had solved every problem he had seen as a boy but a few days before

the start of the London Paralympic gims that will see disabled people

compete in sold-out venues, he could believe he helped change

Britain. Lord Morris of Manchester, who died

today. Spain's emergency services are on high alert after wildfires

in the Canary Islands. Thousands have been evacuated from one of the

islands, there have been fires too, on the Spanish mainland.

Bright flames lighting up the hills around Alicante. The driest winter

in 20 years here in Spain has left the landscape BRITle as tinder,

ready to ignite and carry the fires far on hot winds from the Sahara.

Water-bombing planes and helicopters are now on standby in

case high temperatures again whip up the last of the flames that have

already ravaged 1,500 acres here, left two firemen dead and one

seriously injured. In the Canary Islands, the authorities believe a

blaze which has ravaged the island of La Gomera, was started on

purpose. But locals criticised the government for being slow to send

planes and helicopters I have worked my whole life. Now the fire

has destroyed everything. It was really bad. I had to climb through

a net to escape because I couldn't go back to the roads and if I had

fallen, I would have been burned. Wrun-fifth of the population were

forced to abandon their homes. -- one-fifth. Although most have been

told they can return. People here fear that what attracts tourists to

their island has been ruined. The fire has already destroyed nearly

2,000 acres of this World Heritage Site. For the moment, Spain's fires

are under control but they are not out. After the driest winter in

decades, on LaGomera, and across the country, people know all it

takes for the flames to flare up again is heat and wind.

Tributes have been paid to the long-time editor of Cosmopolitan

magazine, Helen Gurly Brown who died yesterday, aged 90.

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls so everywhere. Celebrated writer

and magazine writer Helen Gurley Brown's enduring motto for wi. Free

from convention, she said women could have it all. In 1962, her

book on the subject, Sex and the Single Girl, became a best-seller

and within three years, the magazine cost mow toll tan had

hired her to spread her message further. -- Cosmopolitan. We are

always telling Cosmo woman, go for it, get your foot in the door. It

doesn't have to be the best job in the world because you have a long

way to go. It was, she said, about getting everything you wanted out

of life. Why shouldn't women have fun, too? She became a success

totally against the odds. She was the first really loud and proud

pioneer of wanting women to have it all. You can have the career, you

can earn the money, you can have the man and have great sex.

And under her editorship, which lasted 32 years, the magazine

featured relationships, money and cosmetic surgery. Covers read "Sex,

power, if you've got it, plaupbt it" and, "Meet the marriage

busters." -- flaunt it. She was an early take

women and sex, which was astonishing and fascinating but

women had to be but thefully dressed and incredibly sexy for men.

But where there was criticism she shrugged it off I have been

controversial ever since I wrote books in the first place and I have

hit frequently, nobody likes to be hit, but I have learned to deal

with that. For Helen Gurley Brown, glamour and success went hand-in-

hand. Today New York's mayor said she was a role model for the

millions of women's who's private thoughts, wonders and dreams she

had Amor dressed so brilliantly in print.

-- she'd addressed. Now, the Olympic Games may have

lifted the nation's spirits but the buzz won't last, according to a BBC

survey. Most of those polled said that the Olympics had made them

proud to be British and that the Games had had a positive effect on

the country, but as James Pearce reports. The feel-good factor may

be short-lived. Lord Coe said before the Games he wanted a new

generation of British sporting heroes, he wasn't disappointed.

Schools around the UK will be able to take their pick and they will

inspire youngsters. What does the British public think

about these Games? In a BBC survey, 83% said they thought the Olympics

had had a positive effect on the UK. 80% thought the event had made

people more proud to be British. However, 54% believe the effect

will be short-lived. I have met a lot of people who don't have

anything to do with sport, who have never been interested in sport, who

will maybe not necessarily get hooked in doing sport but who in

different areas have found inspiration from athletes.

Spectators were some of the stars of the Games. They loved their

Olympic experience. Millions will miss the carnival atmosphere that

embraced London. Putting on a 17- day spectacle which everybody

enjoys is one thing, making sure it leaves a last impact is quite

another. The concerns raised in this poll, show that the British

public is still to be convinced that enough's being done to give

these Games a proper legacy. One couple not worried about the

feel-God factor, those from Suffolk who have won a staggering �148

million. She say new cars will be near the top of their shopping list.

Adrian and Gillian bay Ford, in their early 40s, scooped the

second-biggest backnot Lottery history. The couple, who have a

six-year-old daughter and four- year-old son say they worked

opposite day and night shifts to make ends meet this. Report

contains flash photography. It is a phenomenal amount of money. Life

will never be the same again. Gillian and Adrian bay Ford have

won a Euro Millions jackpot that rolled over 14 times. It was late

on Friday night they realised their numbers had come up. Although

Gillian doubted her husband at first. I thought - maybe he is

telling the truth, we'll double check it. I checked it on my

fornings the TV and the internet and I then I thought, "You could be

right here." -- I checked it on my phone. We looked at each other and

giggled. It was a big beam. A smile came off. It was a nice feeling.

very nice feeling. The couple have talked about buying a new car a new

house but nothing too extrafgpbt just yet. They insist this is a win

to be -- extravagant just yet. They insist this is a win to be shared

amongst friends and family and have no worries about the publicity.

we want to give it to money, and it is not fair to ask them to hide it.

It isn't fair on our children, we want them to have a normal

childhood and be brought up. Just because we have some money now,

it'll give them a naiser life but they're still too children who

should be entitled to a normal childhood. Adrian and Gillian say

they want their life to return to normal to spend time with their two

young children but with �148 million in the bank, that may be

easier said than done. One thing all the money in the

world can't change, is the weather. world can't change, is the weather.

Laura? It is a different week. Last week,

dry, hot, sunny, this week, wind, rain, the works. It all changes

through the next fewdys. Yesterday we had rain it, wasn't that heavy.

Today we have showers and they will be heavy. Already rumbles of

thunder through Scotland and Northern Ireland, but equally in

the sunshine today feeling pleasantly warm. The sat light

shows lengthy spells of sunshine through England and Wales but big

clouds, shower clouds gathering into Scotland and Northern Ireland

and this is where the heaviest downpours are set to be. Through

the rest of the day, the wind is southerly, so the showers will

track their way northwards, edging their way through Northern Ireland.

In the sunshine, highs of 19 in Belfast, where the showers move

through, some gusty winds developing. The far north-east of

Scotland, still fairly cloudy with outbrex of rain and drizzle. Misty

and murky along the Aberdeen coast. -- with outbreaks of rain.

Elsewhere, fairly hit and miss. A lot of sunshine around, yes some

sunshine to dodge. Few and far between, not that heavy.

In the southern counties, with the breeze they should clear northwards.

The south-west England, looking towards the channel, you will see

showers around and they will edge in towards the evening. Across

Wales, a largely fine, dry afternoon, but don't be shocked if

you see one or two showers, there are some around. Through the

evening and evernight showers into the south-west but for many it

turns clear with dry and light winds, it'll be misty and murky

particularly in the north. A mild night. Temperatures 14 to 19 in

London. But tomorrow's weather dominated by a low pressure,

sweeping in from the south-west. Gathering warm air from the near

continent. Isobars close together, showing -- so we are not just wet

through tomorrow, windy as well. Winds pick up first thing across

the south-west of England and Wales, touching galeforce and heavy rain

will sweep through. Most areas through the day arriving in

Scotland most later in the evening. The rain will be heavy, an inch or

two will fall in four, five or six hours, which could lead to

localised flooding. Tomorrow's rain by Thursday will be across the

Northern Isles. Still breezy. By Thursday we are back to sunshine

and showers but lurking to the south-west, is our next spell of

wet weather. This moves in across the south-west of England, Wales

and to Northern Ireland. Thursday night into Friday. So by Friday,

again, still looking fairly wet. Mostly across western areas, the

south-east should be largely dry. Despite the wind and rain this week,

it'll be pretty mild. Thank you very much. A reminder of our top