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A fall in the proportion of GCSEs awarded a A* to a C grade for the | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
first time since the exams were introduced 24 years ago. As | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
hundreds of thousands of pupils find out their results, teachers' | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
unions expressed concerns that some have been marked down. We have | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
heard significant numbers of students who had been expected to | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
get a grade C or above have found themselves getting a D. | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
I Asil Nadir is sentenced to 10 years in jail for stealing millions | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
of pounds from his Polly Peck business empire. His wife says he | :00:37. | :00:45. | |
will fight to clear his name. husband is innocent. Having faith | :00:45. | :00:51. | |
in the British justice and legal system, we will continue with our | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
efforts to rectify the wrongs. Pathologist Freddy Patel is struck | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
off the medical register after seeing newspaper seller Ian | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
Tomlinson died of natural causes at the G20 protests. | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
Memorial services take place in South Africa for 44 people killed | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
in clashes with police at a platinum mine. | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
And the DIY restoration which turned this 19th century fresco | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
into this. The woman responsible say she wanted to save the Church | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
time and money. Later on BBC London. The family of | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
a man who died in police custody claim the police watchdog's | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
investigation is flawed. And dressage, Paralympic style. Will we | :01:28. | :01:38. | |
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have another golden moment in Good afternoon. The proportion of | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
GCSE entries receiving at least A grades C has fallen for the first | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
time since the exams were introduced, 24 years ago. Results | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
in England, Wales and Northern Ireland show 69.4% of entries | :02:05. | :02:11. | |
earned grades A* to C, compared to 69.8% last year. Union leaders said | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
they were concerned that some exams, particularly in English, had been | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
marked too harshly, with many students not getting the results | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
that they expected. Chris Buckler is that Thornton Grammar School in | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
Bradford. Here, pupils have been getting | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
their results, just as they have been at hundreds of schools across | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
England, Wales and Northern Ireland. This fall in the percentage of | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
entries getting the top grades is small. It is also significant. It | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
comes at a time when the Government has been trying to address | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
allegations that exams have been dumbing down and also trying to | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
raise the standards of schools. Michael Gove has made it very clear | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
that he is dissatisfied with GCSE. He has been considering big changes, | :02:54. | :03:02. | |
even getting rid of the exam After months of work and weeks of | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
worry... This morning, pupils finally found out their grades. For | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
many, it was good news. But after more than two decades in which year | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
after year results got better and better, for the first time in the | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
history of GCSEs the proportion of entries getting top grades fell. | :03:21. | :03:28. | |
The proportion of GCSEs awarded grades A* to C was 69.4%. That is a | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
fall of 0.4% on last year. 7.3% of entries were given the top grade of | :03:35. | :03:42. | |
A*, again, down by 0.5% from 2011. Girls are significantly | :03:42. | :03:49. | |
outperformed boys in higher-grade passages, including A*. The | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
regulator, Ofqual, had warned exam bodies that they would have to | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
justify any improvement in results this year. But there are worries | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
that some subjects have been knocked too harshly. There are big | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
concerns about the English results and some very surprising results | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
which are much lower than expected. We believe that is because the | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
boundaries have been significantly changed at the very last minute. | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
England, GCSEs are changing. The module system that allowed pupils | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
to sit and resit parts of exams at different times has been scrapped | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
for anyone starting studies next month. Many getting results said | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
they thought doing all of their exams at one time would be harder. | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
I definitely prefer what we have done. It gives you a chance to | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
resit and build on what you have got. You know what you're aiming | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
for and how to achieve more. Education Secretary Michael Gove | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
once even greater changes. He's talked about getting rid of GCSEs, | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
gritty and returning to exams similar to the old O-levels. Unions, | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
the Liberal Democrat and Labour have reservations. I don't know | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
what will happen next. Michael Gove has talked about turning the clock | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
right back and bringing back CSEs and O-levels. I hope we do not go | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
down at route because it would be a disaster for many young people. | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
a time of uncertainty, the Government is putting pressure on | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
schools to raise standards. They are expected to ensure that at | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
least 40% of pupils achieved five good GCSE grades. Slightly | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
irritating if you believe it is a politically driven, rather than | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
educationally. But because we are measured in that way, we have to | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
respond. In Wales, the GCSE system is currently under review. For the | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
minute, pupils there and in Northern Ireland will continue to | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
have the option of sitting modules. Make no mistake, in England it is | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
not just students but the exam itself that is under real scrutiny. | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
There is some divisiveness within this. There is controversy in | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
Michael Gove's suggestion that they could return to some kind of O- | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
level system, potentially even O- levels and CSEs. He has denied | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
there will be a two-tier system. That is something the Liberal | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
Democrat are concerned about. Nevertheless, in coming up with | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
plans there will be a great deal of discussion and some concern within | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
the Government itself. If you would like to find out more | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
about GCSEs and what to do next, there is more information on the | :06:14. | :06:22. | |
The former business tycoon Asil Nadir has been sentenced to 10 | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
years in prison for stealing nearly �29 million from his Polly Peck | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
empire in the 1980s. The judge said that he had stolen out of pure | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
greed. Nadir was due to face trial in 1993, but fled to Cyprus before | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
returning to Britain two years ago, saying that he wanted to clear his | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
name. Clive Coleman is at the Old Bailey. | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
Before he was sentenced this morning, Asil Nadir looked relaxed. | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
He was chatting to members of the foreign press committee people in | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
the gallery and to his wife, who remained by the side of the dock. | :06:55. | :07:01. | |
When it came to sentencing, the judge said that the company's | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
success was, in many ways, Dorset S. It said the company money was not | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
your money. He said, you knew that, none the less, you help yourself to | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
it and committed theft on a grand scale. At the conclusion of | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
sentencing, receiving the 10 year sentence, Asil Nadir thanked the | :07:19. | :07:25. | |
judge. But outside court, his wife was defiant. He is a man of great | :07:25. | :07:34. | |
character. Integrity and honour. He gave in abundance to charities and | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
were the organisations for many years. -- were the organisations. | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
My husband is innocent. Having faith in the British justice legal | :07:45. | :07:55. | |
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system, we will continue with our The judge talked of aggravating | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
factors, what were they? Primarily, the fact that this was a big breach | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
of trust. Asil Nadir was in a position of great power. That he | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
abused that trust. One of the things he pointed out was that Asil | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
Nadir had the single signatory system, where he alone was able to | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
move money around. He was able to do that without a count the | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
signature from another board director. In addition to that, the | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
fact that the thefts were massive and that they took place over a | :08:26. | :08:36. | |
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very extended period of time, three The pathologist Freddy Patel, who | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
wrongly said that newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson died of natural | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
causes at the G20 protests in London three years ago, has been | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
struck off the medical register. Why did they conclude that he was | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
unfit to practise? Well, Dr Freddy Patel was the first apologist to | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
examine the body of Ian Tomlinson and the only one to conclude that | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
he died of natural causes. Mr Tomlinson was trying to make his | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
way home through the G20 protests in 2009. Even after he was shown | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
this video footage of PC Simon Harwood first striking Ian | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
Tomlinson with a baton and then pushing into the ground, he stuck | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
to his original conclusion, even as other medical experts concluded he | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
had in fact died from internal bleeding. Freddy Patel had been | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
suspended from the Home Office list of pathologists in 2009 and then | :09:26. | :09:32. | |
removed completely in 2010. At the time he conducted a post-mortem on | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
Ian Tomlinson, he was effectively doing so under false pretences. He | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
had also been investigated numerous times. In 2002, he concluded that a | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
woman, Sally White, had died from natural causes when she had in fact | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
been murdered by a serial killer. The fitness to practise panel today | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
concluded and it said that he had a rigid mindset, unwarranted | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
confidence in his own abilities and a deep-seated problem with his | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
attitude. The family of Ian Tomlinson has released a statement | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
in the past half-hour in which they say they are surprised that Dr | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
Freddy Patel was able to work as a pathologist for so long and that he | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
was selected to do the post-mortem on the Ian Tomlinson. But they are | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
pleased he will not be able to put any more families through the | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
ordeal he calls them. Dr Freddy Patel himself has refused to | :10:19. | :10:26. | |
Two men jailed for the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence in | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
south-east London in 1993 have had their applications for permission | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
to appeal rejected by a judge. Gary Dobson and David Norris have | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
continued to protest their innocence and were given life | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
sentences in January. They can still renew their applications | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
before a panel of judges sitting at the Court of Appeal. | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
Prince Harry is believed to be back in the UK after pictures of him | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
naked in a Las Vegas hotel room appeared on American gossip website. | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
St James's Palace has confirmed that he is in the photographs and | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
that it contacted the police -- Press Complaints Commission because | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
of concerns about his privacy being intruded on. | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
Three members of Jordan's Paralympic team facing sex charges | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
have been pulled out of the Paralympic Games. The men, who had | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
been in Northern Ireland for training, appeared in court in | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
County Londonderry yesterday. Mark Simpson is in Belfast. They have | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
gone home, what happens next? are on their way home back to | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
Jordan as we speak. They will be back in Northern Ireland to face | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
the courts at some stage. The case is due for mention again on October | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
16th, seven weeks away. It is not clear if the men will be obliged to | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
appear in person. What we know for sure is that they will not be | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
appearing next week at the Paralympics. The Games begin on | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
Wednesday. It is the power lifting event that the men were due to | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
participate in, which starts on Thursday. The three men will not be | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
there. They have voluntarily gone back home to Jordan. | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
Services are taking place in South Africa in memory of those killed | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
during a strike at a platinum mine. Of the 44 victims, 34 were workers | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
who were shot dead by police last week. There are fears now that the | :12:06. | :12:14. | |
dispute could spread to other mines The 44 need never have died. | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
Nothing, their families say, could compensate for the loss of their | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
loved ones. Candlelight provides this community with an enduring | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
symbol of remembrance. South Africans are marking a day that | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
they will recall as one of the darkest in the country's modern | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
history. Bavuyisa Miya was still limping from the injuries he | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
sustained escape in gunfire. He says his colleagues should not have | :12:40. | :12:49. | |
been killed, they were simply TRANSLATION: I am deeply saddened | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
by the turn of events. We were demanding a better wage from the | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
employers. That is what the march was about. We didn't know that | :12:56. | :13:02. | |
these people will kill us for demanding 12,500 rand. Not since | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
the days of apartheid has South Africa witnessed such bloody scenes | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
as they saw here last week. The shocking images of police officers | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
gunning down striking miners has put an ugly face on industrial | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
relations in South Africa. The mining industry is one of the | :13:20. | :13:26. | |
bedrocks of the economy. Lonmin mine has been in virtual shutdown. | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
Reflecting on last week's events certainly will not stop the | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
protests. In some parts of South Africa, unemployment is as high as | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
50%. Discontent is growing. These miners are certain that they will | :13:38. | :13:46. | |
not return to work and tell -- until their demands are met. Other | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
workers in neighbouring mines have downed tools, also demanding better | :13:50. | :13:58. | |
wages. We believe that further deaths resulted from protests and | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
demonstrations can be avoided if only they would listen to what the | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
workers are saying. A President Jacob Zuma says that the industry | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
needs to start to examine the living conditions of people working | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
for them. The nation is under growing pressure from its workforce. | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
The place where so many died has become a poignant symbol of | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
defiance. For the grieving wives, mothers and children left behind, | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
today's prayers are not only for the dead but those left without a | :14:27. | :14:37. | |
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Our top story. A fall in the proportion of GCSEs awarded that a | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
* to C great have fallen for the first time since the exams were | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
introduced. Coming up, if the rain has ruined your summer, spare a | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
thought for the bees. I'll be finding out by some hives have been | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
left starving by the wet weather. Later on BBC London. Two men jailed | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
for the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence lose the first stage of | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
their attempt to challenge their convictions. And after a 200 mile | :15:04. | :15:14. | |
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journey a century-old narrowboat One of the Government's most senior | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
scientific advisers has said that efforts to stop a sharp rise in | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
global temperatures are now unrealistic. Professor Sir Robert | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
Watson, who is shortly to step down from his role in government, told | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
BBC News that he'd like to see the Chancellor George Osborne back | :15:31. | :15:38. | |
efforts to cut C02 emissions. Professor Watson is one of the most | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
respected scientists in the world on Climate Change policy. He is | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
currently chief scientist at the Department for food and rural | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
affairs and a former chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
Change. He believes that because of a lack of progress at successive | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
international climate change summit, it is now unlikely that governments | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
will be able to meet an internationally agreed target to | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
reduce their carbon-dioxide emissions, and so limit the average | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
rise in global temperatures. idea of a to degree target is | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
largely out the window. Not impossible but not particularly | :16:12. | :16:18. | |
likely. I'd really do believe we are on the way to 83, four or five | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
degree world. And if we are in a world that is three, four or five | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
degrees warmer, there will be significant adverse effects. | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
what does this mean? According to the UK Committee on climate change, | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
there are regional variations but overall, if there is a today degree | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
increase in average temperatures there will be more extremes of | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
weather, floods and droughts and more people will die. If | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
temperatures rise between three to four degrees, agricultural | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
production will fall and sea levels will rise. At five degrees the | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
overall picture will get much worse and there will be an irreversible | :16:53. | :16:59. | |
loss of many species. David Cameron has said that he wants his | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
government to be the greenest ever. But because of the recession his | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
Chancellor, George Osborne, has asked for an easing of the | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
ambitious C02 reduction targets, to take the pressure off businesses. | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
Professor Watson said that would be the wrong way to go. I would say to | :17:16. | :17:22. | |
George Osborne, work with the private sector, work with the | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
public on behaviour change. Let's demonstrate to the rest of the | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
world that through some cost- effective technology we can make | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
significant progress here. Professor Watson added that deep | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
cuts in CO2 emissions of possible through the development of new ways | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
of generating energy that do not harm the environment. But he says | :17:40. | :17:47. | |
what is really needed is greater political will. There are reports | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
this lunch time of intense fighting on the outskirts of the Syrian | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
capital Damascus. Government forces are reported to be using helicopter | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
gunships and battery fired to attack a district of the city. Here, | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
the Prime Minister David Cameron joined the United States in warning | :18:01. | :18:07. | |
the Syria against using its chemical weapons in the conflict. | :18:07. | :18:16. | |
Daily life in Syria at the moment. The Syrian army is continuing its | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
attempts to dislodge opposition fighters from the northern city of | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
Aleppo. Unverified pictures, but the aftermath shows heavy damage - | :18:26. | :18:33. | |
typical of aerial bombardment. And now head the attacks have moved to | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
the southern outskirts of Damascus, according to opposition sources. | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
This was apparently the air attack on the suburb of Deraa, first at -- | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
possibly the first time shelling attacks in action on residential | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
area so close to the capital. Other amateur footage shows columns of | :18:52. | :18:58. | |
tanks moving in, apparently followed by house-to-house searches. | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
A latest pictures, apparently to date from the same suburb, a | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
reminder of the mounting human cost of this conflict. Funerals for | :19:07. | :19:15. | |
those caught up in the violence. On Syrian state TV, news reports | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
describe the operations of brave army units in Aleppo, pursuing | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
terrorist gangs and mercenaries. Here the reporters say the Syrian | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
army inflicted major losses and killed dozens of them. From now one | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
these glimpses of Syria's war won't be amplified by the UN monitoring | :19:34. | :19:40. | |
team, which is pulling out. More of them departed today. From afar, | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
President Obama and David Cameron have warned they may we think there | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
non-intervention strategy if President Assad dares use chemical | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
weapons. But for opposition supervisors that is little comfort. | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
The flipside of that statement is that if there is no chemical weapon | :19:59. | :20:07. | |
used by the regime then there will be no intervention. There is a | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
craving for international protection from the Syrian | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
opposition and from the Syrian population. Meanwhile, the fighting | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
on the ground is turning more and more of the country into a | :20:17. | :20:25. | |
terrifying battle ground. The Prime Minister is meeting the King of | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
Bahrain in Downing Street this afternoon to discuss the situation | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
in Syria. This will be a controversial visit for some. | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
Eyebrows will be raised because this is the second time that the | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
king has met all will meet Mr Cameron since December. The King | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
was also invited to the Queen's special jubilee lunch for | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
international royalty. This visit comes as protests rumble on in | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
Bahrain. A teenage protester was killed last week and a prominent | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
activist was jailed for three years. So human rights groups certainly | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
know what they want to be discussed. Amnesty International has said what | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
they call a facade of supposed reform in the kingdom, while | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
peaceful protesters have been jailed. It has called on Mr Cameron | :21:09. | :21:15. | |
to say that Britain will stand by while Bahrain locks up dissidents. | :21:15. | :21:21. | |
I've been told that on the agenda of the meeting is Syria, but also | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
trade opportunities. I've been told the purpose of the meeting is not | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
to discuss Bahrain's promised reforms. The first thing mentioned | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
to me was Britain trying to look for further trading opportunities | :21:32. | :21:41. | |
with Bahrain in what clearly is a sensitive time. This summer's wet | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
weather has badly affected Britain's bee population. | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
Conditions have been their worst for three decades and have made it | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
difficult for the insects to gather nectar and pollen. It is warning | :21:52. | :21:59. | |
honey production could be down by as much as 60 %. Our reporter is | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
just outside Conwy. We've heard so much about record rainfall ruining | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
things for us humans this summer. But it's also playing havoc with | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
Britain's bee population. Rain makes it difficult for them to go | :22:12. | :22:18. | |
out and forage, which means that some hives have been left as a | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
staff -- left to starve. Much as humans, honey bees aren't too keen | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
in venturing out in wet weather. Torrential rain in June followed by | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
downpours in July and August have all limited their time foraging for | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
food. And without feathering the enough nectar and pollen, some have | :22:35. | :22:41. | |
been starved. Right in the middle of the summer in the middle of June, | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
when the nectar flows should have been at their best, bees were | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
starving. So beekeepers have had to feed their bees, they feed them on | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
sugar syrup. I've never known that before. This year's honey crop is | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
also likely to suffer. Some beekeepers are predicting a drop of | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
up to 60 % on last year. It's classed as a luxury item. People | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
are coming in buying their honeyed, there's not enough to bring into | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
the shop, the premium will have to go up on the Hanley. The customers | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
will have to pay more for it, which they will not like. Funny isn't the | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
only food the bees help to produce. As they fly from flower to flower, | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
they also pollinate around three- quarters of the crops wheat. A | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
familiar buzz has been missing from Ian Sturrock's orchard. Normally he | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
can depend on bees to pollinators fruit trees, but this year most of | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
Arran. This tree is a bar of the island apple tree. Normally it | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
would be absolutely covered in fruit. This year it is almost | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
totally barren. I've lost about 75- 80 % of my crop. And there's one | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
final sting in the tail. The rain may also have put a dampener on | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
meeting for Virgin Queen Bees, threatening, the numbers in the | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
future. That could be a real problem for all those people who | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
have recently taken an interest in beekeeping. Although beekeeper | :24:07. | :24:13. | |
numbers are up, it seems that colony numbers are on the way down. | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
Developers building new rental properties should be freed from the | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
obligation to provide affordable homes. That's according to a new | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
report commissioned by the government. It says the requirement | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
encourages quick sales and deters developers from considering renting | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
out their properties. But critics say changing the rules would have | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
are those on lower incomes. Once they are finished the developer of | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
these properties will hope to sell them as fast as possible. Very few | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
companies hang on to the homes they build and rent them privately. One | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
of the panel members of today's review says that leaves a great - | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
that a gaping hole in the housing market. The majority of the | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
landlords out there are landlords who have bought houses that are | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
generally in the market for sale. There is very little purpose-built | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
rental stock. Actually, the mansion blocks of the 1920s and 1930s, they | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
were built for rent. The report recommends looking at how planning | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
rules might be further eased to encourage the building of Red 4 | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
properties. It says a share of publicly owned land could be set | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
aside and calls for new financial incentives for build to let schemes. | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
But the most contentious element is the call for local authority rules | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
to be waived. At the moment, builders must promise a certain | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
quota of affordable properties to get the go-ahead for more lucrative | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
schemes. They say that is holding back construction. If the | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
obligation is waved it will free up developers, they can be more | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
flexible about how they develop things. That will mean there will | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
be more developments done. More housing available, which will mean | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
that rents will come down because it's a question of supply and | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
demand. From here you can see exactly what these rules have meant | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
in practice. Developers wanted to build expensive luxury flats over | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
there in London's Bankside. But to get permission to do that they had | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
to promise to build these affordable properties over here. | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
Housing associations are worried about any attempt to divert | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
investment away from the affordable sector. We really welcome a strong | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
private rented sector. There is such a shortage of housing in this | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
country that we need all sectors to be strong. But our fear would be | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
that schemes such as this might not be produced. And therefore that | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
would affect our ability to produce affordable rented housing. And many | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
in the housing industry say the biggest problem is the limited | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
availability of credit, both for developers and potential buyers who | :26:38. | :26:44. | |
are struggling to get mortgages. It was all done with the best of | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
intentions. A woman in her 80s who thought that the 19th century | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
fresco in her local church was looking a little worse for wear. To | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
save the Church time of money she decided to do the restoration work | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
herself. The result was... Well, I will let Tim Reid explained. This | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
is how Christ was depicted originally. This is how he looks | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
now, after a DIY restoration. The much-loved fresco has been a | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
feature in this church for more than a century. But the years have | :27:13. | :27:18. | |
taken their toll, as these pictures show. Unhappy at the state of the | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
painting, a local worshipper set to work with a paintbrush, but has | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
denied doing it without permission. No, of course not, everybody could | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
see me as I was painting so I wasn't doing it secretly. But the | :27:32. | :27:37. | |
family of the original artist say the work is now ruined. | :27:37. | :27:42. | |
TRANSLATION: Until now she was just painting the tunic, but the problem | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
started when she began painting the head, too. She has destroyed the | :27:46. | :27:52. | |
painting. Art experts say the 19th century fresco by Martinez was | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
popular locally but not particularly valuable, much less so | :27:55. | :28:00. | |
now. I have to confess when I saw this illustrated in the paper I | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
burst out laughing. It is an amusing tragedy. She has made a | :28:04. | :28:10. | |
horrible mess of it. If a 5-year- old child had done it it couldn't | :28:10. | :28:14. | |
be worse. Of course, nobody is going to be devoted to it now, are | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
they? Local officials have now called in the professionals to try | :28:18. | :28:25. | |
to undo this amateur restorer's handiwork. Never muck about with an | :28:25. | :28:34. | |
Not the cheeriest picture behind me but it's not all doom and gloom. | :28:34. | :28:38. | |
There will be some bright spells of round, a scattering of showers as | :28:38. | :28:42. | |
well perhaps. The cloud is massing out towards the western side of the | :28:42. | :28:47. | |
British Isles, it is tied in with the low pressure. There is a veil | :28:47. | :28:51. | |
of cloud gradually working its way in across some areas. There will be | :28:51. | :28:55. | |
some brightness this afternoon across parts of East Anglia and the | :28:55. | :28:58. | |
south-east. 22 Ward 23 in the sunshine. But there's no getting | :28:58. | :29:01. | |
away from the fact that once you drift out towards the West, the | :29:01. | :29:06. | |
cloud is a bit thicker. You are in with a chance of seeing some | :29:06. | :29:10. | |
showery rain from medium level cloud. A scattering of showers to | :29:10. | :29:13. | |
the western side of the Pennines through the morning, that prospect | :29:13. | :29:17. | |
will continue. Because the weather is out towards the West, Northern | :29:17. | :29:21. | |
Ireland have a better chance of seeing a showery burst of something. | :29:22. | :29:27. | |
The showers in Scotland not as intense as yesterday. As we come to | :29:27. | :29:31. | |
the eastern side of the Pennines, one or two shout was breaking | :29:31. | :29:35. | |
through but again, a little bit of sunshine as well. Let's move on | :29:35. | :29:38. | |
through the evening and overnight, where I think we will find the | :29:38. | :29:42. | |
cloud filling in a bit more as the low-pressure grinds its weighting | :29:42. | :29:46. | |
towards the western side of the British Isles. Even away from that | :29:46. | :29:50. | |
main area of cloud and rain out to the west, we may find an area | :29:50. | :29:53. | |
developing around Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, that could well | :29:53. | :29:57. | |
drift up towards the south eastern quarter of England to start of the | :29:57. | :30:01. | |
day on Friday. But the main weather event is out towards the West. An | :30:01. | :30:05. | |
area of heavy rain gradually swinging its way through the West | :30:05. | :30:10. | |
Country, up into Wales and Northern Ireland. Eventually a box of in two | :30:10. | :30:14. | |
parts of the South East. Away from that is the familiar tale of sunny | :30:14. | :30:20. | |
spells and showers. How is the weekend shaping up? There will be | :30:20. | :30:24. | |
rain at times, gusty winds as well. Compared to last weekend where some | :30:24. | :30:28. | |
places were getting around 30 degrees, it will feel cooler than | :30:28. | :30:32. | |
that. It depends where you are in relation to this area of low | :30:32. | :30:37. | |
pressure. It makes slow progress on Saturday. Persistent rain in | :30:37. | :30:41. | |
southern Scotland and northern England, Northern Ireland and down | :30:41. | :30:47. | |
into the south-west. Showery bursts potentially driven along with gales | :30:47. | :30:50. | |
in the south. The whole thing moving a little bit further towards | :30:51. | :30:55. | |
the east, so a northerly pushing showers towards the eastern side of | :30:55. | :30:59. | |
England through Sunday. Brighter skies pushing in from the West. | :30:59. | :31:08. | |
Monday you strive for some as well. A fall in the proportion of GCSEs | :31:08. | :31:12. |