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More allegations against Sir Jimmy Savile. Two hospitals describe

their shock after claims he abused children during ward visits. One

woman said she was abused, aged 13, while in a wheelchair. Another said

she saw him assault a brain-damaged woman. He started kizing her neck -

- kissing her neck, running his hands up and down her arms and then

started to moless her. The first private abortion clinic will open

in Northern Ireland. Pro live campaigners say they will fight to

close it. Lance Armstrong is accused of one

of the most successful doping programmes sport has ever seen.

Struggling with eating discords, a significant rise in the number of

young people and children needing hospital treatment. And the Prime

Minister is about to unveil plans for 2014, to mark the centenary of

First World War. Later on BBC London: The Harrow councillor

arrested on suspicion of possessing And 10 years on from the Bali

bombings, how one survivor from Good afternoon. Welcome to the BBC

News. Bosses at two hospitals say they are shocked by the latest

allegations against Sir Jimmy Savile, which date back to the

1970s. A former patient at Stoke Mandeville hospital has described

how she was abused at the age of 13, while being treated for spinal

injuries. She said at the time no- one believes her because --

believed her she he was a powerful Jimmy Savile was for years a

volunteer at Leeds General Infirmary. The hospital has now

received two complaints of assault. One former patient said she saw him

approach a girl in a nearby bed. started kissing her neck, running

his hands up and down her arms and then started to moless her.

response, the hospital did confirm two people have made complaints.

think it is fair to say we have been absolutely shocked and

surprised at the nature and quantity of the allegations and

obviously concerned because of his long-standing involvement Police

have also contacted Stoke Mandeville. Jimmy Savile had a flat

and office in the hospital. He raised millions for its rebuilding.

Two people have come forward to incidents they say took place in

the 1970s. Caroline was 13 when she was treated in the hospital. I was

outside a ward or a gym, I cannot remember exactly which one it was.

He came out of the gym and just rammed his tongue down my throat.

This woman knew Jimmy Savile for years and this, she says has left

her feeling bereaved. I am positive in my heart that there was no

problem from when I knew him and throughout the whole of this appeal

and throughout all of these good charity works he's done. And in

Scarborough, the town where yesterday his grave stone was

removed, police have received a complaint going back to an incident

said to have taken place in the late 1980s. Our correspondent is in

Leeds now. So, yet more allegations. What more can you tell us, Danny?

Well, Sophie, we know the authorities here at the Leeds

General Infirmary are investigating two allegations against Jimmy

Savile. It's not clear if one is the one you heard about in the

report of the one who saw a lady with brain damage being molested by

him. This will be a worrying development. Jimmy Savile, for

years, during the '70s and '60s was a volunteer porter. He used to work

the night shift on many occasions, helping to move patients around the

hospital. The question has to be qued, was he using that as cover to

molest patients while he was here? That will be looked at as well.

We've had a second allegation in Yorkshire as well of the girl, a

young girl in the late 1980s being apparently assaulted by Jimmy

Savile. His connection to Scarborough is his mother used to

live there, he had a flat there, he was very well known in the town too.

It appears here in the home town of Jimmy Savile, where he was born,

that the places he was known best are places where the allegations

are now starting to come out from too.

The first private abortion clinic in Northern Ireland is to be open

next week by the family planning group Marie Stopes International.

It will offer a service for women up to nine weeks' preg mapbt and

who meet the strict legal -- pregnant and who meet the strict

legal restrictions. Opinion in Northern Ireland is

divided at the best of times and the opening of the country's first

abortion clinic has polarised people's views. The Marie Stopes

organisation said it will not go any further than Northern Ireland

law allows. A woman can have an abortion in Northern Ireland only

when there is a serious and long- term risk to her physical or mental

health. Any termination must come within the first nine weeks of

pregnancy. Anti-abortion campaigners say there is no need

for the new clinic. Tomorrow I would be hoping to meet with the

police, the Attorney General, the Department of Health for Northern

Ireland, to ensure that the plans of this Marie Stopes are halted

immediately. It is legal. It is available on the NHS. What's not

clear is how women access that service on the NHS and we would

hope that any client that comes to us could do so and access the

services freely, safely and come to a centre that will be supportive,

non-judgmental and offer confidential treatment and privacy.

In the past year, there were 35 legally acceptable abortions

carried out in Northern Ireland. There's nothing to prevent a woman

travelling to Great Britain outside the nine-week limit. Last year just

over 1,000 people made that journey. I would not be for it. I would be

against abortion. There are so many things out there that there does

not have to be unwanted pregnancies. My belief would be against abortion.

But I believe everybody has the right to choose. A ter nation is

most harrowing for the women involved. Marie Stopes says it

hopes to ease that burden. Campaigners say it flies in the

face of public opinion, where there is little public will to update

abortion legislation. The cyclist Lance Armstrong has

been branded a serial cheat in a 1,000-page report by the U.S. Anti-

Doping Agency. It said his team ran the most professional and

successful doping programme that sport has ever seen. The document

includes statements from 11 of the cyclists' former colleagues and

claims it is undeniable that Armstrong and his team were

involved in systematic doping. The seven-times Tour de France winner

denies the allegations, but has decided not to contest them.

A yellow jersey he wore was the ultimate symbol of success -

champion of the Tour de France, but now it appears it was a body shaped

by drugs. In the 1,000-page account Just overwhelming evidence and

different categories of evidence, whether it is eyewitness testimony,

whether it is first-hand, direct, admissions that he said and the

others on the conspiracy said, the scientific documents, the e-mails -

it paints an undeniable web of unfortunately the deepest and the

most sophisticated professionalised drug programme we've ever seen a

team run. Armstrong has always denied taking drugs, although he's

not contesting these charges and has left it to his lawyer to

respond on his behalf. Our reaction was one of not surprise. What they

call a reasoned decision, is neither reasoned or an ignored

decision. The evidence appears to be overwhelming. 11 of his former

team-mates have testified against In 2000 I saw him multiple times. I

never saw him take it. I saw him take testosterone, both in pill

form and liquid form. Some of the world's best cyclists with taking

part in the Tour of Beijing. Support for Armstrong remains

strong. I don't think it matters. He's still a legend in the sport.

The guy survived cancer and came back to win the Tour de France.

It's not really important. Many others will disagree. Lance

Armstrong is set to be remembered by most who is a man who disgraced

the sport he once graced. Apologies for the momentarily loss

of sound during that report. Now, there's been a significant rise in

the number of young people and children in England who need

hospital treatment for eating disorders in the past year. In

total almost 2,300 people required hospital treatment in the year to

June, according to the latest figures. Our health correspondent

is here and is this mostly anorexia? Yes. 74% was for that.

The rest was for bulimia, where people binge eat and then vomit and

the rest was for straight binge- eating. The figures overall show

there were 2,300 hospital admissions over the past year. That

is a significant rise, health professionals are saying, of 16%.

The vast majority were female and the majority were aged between 10-

19. Health professionals are saying it is a very worrying trend. The

actual figures are small, but the trend is worrying. Do they know

what is behind it? They say they don't know. For something like

anorexia people may cite the pressure on young girls to stay

slim for fashion reasons, et cetera. It's not the whole picture. The

eating disorders charity Beat, has pointed out this is the tip of the

iceberg. This is the difficult and dangerous stuff, where people are

coming into hospital, but they believe 1.6 million people are

affected by eating disorders and many of those will be for binge

eating. Thank you. More than 45,000 students are to retake their

English GCSEs in a special resit being held next month. The figure,

which has been given to BBC News by exam boards amounts to one in 14 of

those who took the exam earlier this year. Many complained they

were downgraded and missed the chances of places at university or

an apprenticeship scheme. After years of hard work, they thought

they had done enough to get the GCSE English grades they wanted.

Many were to be disappointed, not because of their performance, but

because of a change in the way the exam was graded. Now some students

in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are having a second go.

These students both got Ds when they were expecting Cs and they are

not happy about having to re-sit. We have to put more effort into

English. It's three hours after school, we could have put that

behind and used it for other subjects that we need. We want to

carry on and study to go to university. You have your A-levels

or college and it's enough work doing that. Others have become too

disillusioned to take part in the resits. Many students are so

disgusted and sickened by what took place during the summer that many

of them simply cannot face the idea of going in a couple of months

later to take that same experience through again. When the regulator

investigated this year's English GCSE, it found exams taken in

January were graded too generously. June candy gates had been --

candidates had been downgraded. Their work in the summer was of the

right standard and the problem here is that the examination was not

administered properly. They were not given the grades they deserve.

So what needs to happen is that those grades that were awarded in

the summer, those papers that are in the system now need to be

regraded. And that regrading has already happened in Wales. Although

in England, the regulator, Ofqual, has rejected the idea. It is

determined to halt the steady rise in the number of high grades seen

in previous years. Students will hope their efforts are graded more

generously than they were in the summer. There's no guarantee that

will happen. Exam boards say they will not set the grade boundaries

until they have seen the work. Some may face a second disappointment.

Head teachers and koun sims are pursuing a legal challenge to this

summer's results. With Ofqual defending its position, the

Jordan has refused a UK request to ensure evidence from torture was

not used against Abu Hamza. Our correspondent was at the hearing

for Abu Qatada. The British Government is now very

keen to put Abu Qatada on a plane back to his native Jordan where

he's wanted on terrorist charges. The European Court of Human Rights

earlier said Abu Qatada couldn't be sent back because evidence obtained

through torture could be used against him. The British Government

sought assurances from the Jordanians that this wouldn't

happen, but Abu cat Da is challenging that at this hearing.

His lawyers have been questioning Anthony Laiden ah senior British

diplomat involved in the negotiations with the Jordanians

and he disclosed that the guarantees about torture evidence,

he said the Jordanians wouldn't buy them. He also revealed that the

British delegation had attempted to get a pardon for Abu Qatada, but he

said the Jordanians also said no to that. Mr Laiden acknowledged that

if Mr Qatada z were returned to Jordan, the panel hearing the case

would be a Jordanian panel. The hearing is due to continue this

afternoon and go on for several days.

The time is just after 1.15. Our top story:

More allegations against Sir Jimmy Savile. Two hospitals describe

their shock after claims he abused children during ward visits in the

'70s. One woman says she was abused age 13 when she was in a wheelchair

at Stoke Mandeville. Coming up, as the Prime Minister prepares to

announce details of the commemoration of the 100th

anniversary of the start of World War I, we are live in Belgium to

ask why people are so moved and fascinated by that period of

We look at the special effects of London. And does London need

another chain of coffee shops? We meet the entrepreneur who thinks we

do, all in ten minutes. More than three million girls now

go to school or get some form of education in Afghanistan. It's all

very different from a decade ago when the Taliban were in power, but

two million girls have still to set foot in a classroom and women in

the country continue to face many restrictions in the male-dominated

society. To mark the United Nations first ever international day of the

girl, Andrew North has isn't this report from Kabul.

An old scene in a changing Afghanistan. It's the time of the

potato harvest. Children are working in the fields as they have

done for centuries. Families still depend on their labour. But while

ten-year-old Hamida helps out with the farming, she also twos to

school now, making the long walk there every day.

TRANSLATION: I am in the second class. We didn't have school before.

I'm really happy I'm going to school now.

Today, it's a lesson in diary, the local language. Barely a fifth of

Afghan women can read or write, but that's still a big improvement from

a decade ago. New schools in remote areas are helping. There's a big

turnout for the launch of this government school. More than three

million after began girls are now getting some education. That's

still leaving two million who've never gone class. But attitudes are

changing. TRANSLATION: I bring the women of

Afghanistan up to the level where they think the owner of this nation,

they are the owner of the future here and they are the owner of all

what is happening. It's a new era for these girls at a

Kabul school. Now learning to play cricket. They'd have had to stay at

home if the Taliban were still in power.

Safe inside the school walls, they're like children anywhere,

curious about me and keen to talk. But outside, they still face many

restrictions and uncertainty about their future after NATO forces pull

out. This is just one example of the

progress there's been in getting girls into school over the last ten

years. But this is Kabul. In the rural and less secure areas, there

are still millions of girls not getting any kind of education and

they are under pressure to get married while still at school age.

It's still tough being a girl in Afghanistan, but they are making a

much bigger mark. A 14-year-old Pakistani girl shot

in the head by the Taliban on Tuesday has been moved by

helicopter from a hospital in Peshawar to a hospital in

Rawalpindi. Authorities say she's still in danger, despite some

improvement to her condition. Malala Yousafzai had become well-

known for campaigning for girls' education. The attack caused

outrage around the world. Russia is demanding an explanation

from Turkey after a Syrian passenger plane en route from

Moscow to Damascus was forced to land in Turkey. The Turkish

government says the aircraft was carrying illegal cargo which was

confiscated before it was allowed to continue its journey. Our

correspondent, James Reynolds, is on the Turkey/Syria border. Do we

know what was on this plane then? The Turkish Foreign Minister says

there was objectionable cargo on board. He hasn't shown it to us so

we've had to make educated guesses. A Turkish media station says there

were ten containers on board, each had radio receivers and antennas.

But Syria says that's not true, accusing Turkey of air piracy and

the airline says the goods were legal and they want them back.

It's causing all kinds of problems now, isn't it?

James, diplomatically, this is causing all kinds of problems now,

isn't it? It is. We already have plenty of

tension between Turkey and Syria, these two neighbours share a board

or, 560 miles, there's already been lots of artillery fire in the last

week. Now we have problems on the ground and in the sky as well. One

particularly important development, new diplomatic tension today of

course between Turkey and Russia and that will make it much harder

for diplomats to try to solve the Syria conflict as a whole.

Thank you very much. Today is known as super Thursday in

the publishing world when more than 00 new hard back books are due to

hit the shelves in time for the Christmas market. With the rise in

the number of electronic gadgets are sales of traditional books

holding their own? Our business correspondent Emma Simpson has been

finding out. The Christmas race is on. Just a

taster of some of the new books hitting the shelves, celebrity

blockbusters galore. The amount of press coverage all the books get

means people will come flooding in through the doors, there'll be

loads of sales, it's the start of ci Christmas for us and the

opportunity for us to do what we do best for book sellers and recommend

the right book to the right person. In the book world they call this

super Thursday, but how long will it last in more of us are reading

digital books on devices like these and many of them will end up in

Christmas stockings this year. Technology is changing the way we

read and new devices are on their way driving the sales of e-books

even further. The growth in the fiction market's been strong from

0-30% in the space of 18 months. So the challenge is to get into that

market and not let it get taken away by Amazon. The challenge for

publishers is to manage the transition. You can't cut corners.

This is a beautiful book. A quarter of the pre-orders for

this book are digital. There are still plenty selling and reckons

that's not going to change. I think physical books will get

more beautiful, more expensive, luxury goods, as we have seen are

going up-and-up, so there might be special editions. We love books,

it's an ancient form. The physical book is an old technology but it

works. For this Christmas, the big hard backs are going to steal the

show again but they'll have to increasingly compete with the

digital revolution. Rangers Football Club has announced

this morning that it wants to partially float on the Alternative

Investment Market. The �20 million or so it hopes to raise will be

used to boost the squad and improve facilities. The club hopes fans

will be amongst those investing when the listing happens hopefully

by the end of the year. In the next hour or so, the Prime

Minister will set out plans for commemorating the centenary of the

outbreak of the First World War on the 28th July, 1914. There are

calls for it to be made a special national day for shops to close and

flags to fly at half-mast out of respect for the fallen soldiers.

Our correspondent, Robert Hall, is at Ypres, one of the most famous

World War I battle grounds. Sophie, in a town which was

virtually rebuilt from top to bottom after the destruction of the

Great War, this is one of the most iconic sites. The Menin Gate

straddles the road which once led north to the Great War battlefields,

to the horrors which lay in the trenchs. On its walls are the names

of more than 50,000 soldiers, British and Commonwealth, whose

remains were never found. Now we have news about to break of another

formal commemoration, but perhaps we ought to note that millions of

people come here and to cemeteries across Belgium and France to pay

their respects to trace their personal history every day of every

year. Across the old battlefields, the

autumn leaves are falling once more as today's generation prepares to

mark the event imprinted on the land of France and Belgium.

The Tyne Cot cemetery is the largest of its kind in the world.

These are the graves of nearly 12,000 British and Commonwealth

soldiers killed as they struggle through the mud to reach the

Belgian village of Passchendaele, an event from the history books.

More than 300,000 people come here every year. I always think a

country that forgets its past has no future, I really do think we

have have to pause to reflect. All we are asking for when you talk to

our nationals is two minutes a year to pause and reflect on the

sacrifices made by people. Tyne Cot was being spruced up for this

year's ceremonies, a centenary commemoration which will present

new challenges for all those involved. I think it should be

treated with dignity and a lot of thought. There will be many, many

formal ceremonies involving all the Armed Forces, Veterans Associations

and everybody else, and that will bring a level of pageantry to it,

but it will also be a serious pageantry.

Under the great arch of the Menin Gate, surrounded by the names of

the missing, we found evidence of new links being forged with the

past and sup important for plans to mark this centenary -- support for

plans to mark this centenary. It's important because it would be like

this, emotional but nice because it's paying your respects.

really catching your attention and gets you to think about what people

were really fighting about and if it was all worth it.

After the great wash, Ypres promised to honour the allies who

fought and died on Belgian soil. Hundreds now keep vigil as the

bugles sound clear on the evening air. Anniversaries come and go, but

the stories that reach out from wartime history have always touched

and inspired us. We don't yet know what the details

of this announcement are going to be, but it's interesting, the poll

you referred to this morning, which suggested that a sizeable majority

of people wanted Remembrance Sunday in that year, 2014, to be a special

day. What do they mean by special? Some said the church bells should

be rung, others said that sports facilities and matches should be

postponed to enable as many people as possible to concentrate on

remembrance. We await to see what will happen. What is clear from

what we've heard here is that people are very keen that these

acts of remembrance, large and small, should continue.

Thank you very much. Let's have a look at the latest

Let's have a look at the latest weather now with Darren.

A pretty horrible day for most of us, need your waterproofs today,

particularly if you are on your bike, Sophie, as I know you are.

The satellite picture shows the story for today and tomorrow. The

showers clouds will be heading our way tomorrow and come in behind the

the broad belt of thick cloud. It's a dark day and we've got some rain,

a change for many part ps of the country. The rain through the rest

of today will be heavy in places as well.

We have a more consistent broader band of rain affecting the north.

Hit and miss to the south. Heavy rain in North Devon and Somerset.

It should be pushing away. For the south-west, drying off a bit

through the afternoon, which is good news. Not such good news for

the West Midlands and Wales where the rain is going to be heavy for a

good part of the afternoon. Across Northern Ireland, that's

where we have seen the wettest weather so far, an inch of rain in

places, 25mm. It's drying off in the west later because the rain is

moving eastwards, so more rain to come in western Scotland. The

north-east of Scotland still drier. Maybe a glimpse of sunshine if you

are lucky. A similar story for the north-east of England. The north-

east seeing rain. The bands of rain will jog their way eastwards

through the Midlands into the south-east. Some short, sharp

bursts of heavy rain possible from time to time. There is the main

rain area, the driest weather north-east England and north-east

Scotland. The rain shuffles east overnight, again heavy bursts

possible. It turns clearer and drier in Northern Ireland, Wales

and the south-west. The main area we have to focus on tomorrow is the

north-east of Scotland because here tomorrow we have an amber rain

warning from the Met Office. It's going to be raining all day.

Because of that, we could get something like 80mm, three inches

of rain in the north-east of Scotland because the rain stops in

the north of Scotland. Elsewhere, many place also see some sunshine.

A brisker westerly wind will push in some showers, mainly to Wales

and the south-west. The breeze taking the edge off tf

temperatures. If you get a bit of sunshine tomorrow, it should feel

better than it will do today. Rain again in the north ol of Scotland

should be lighter by then. -- north of Scotland.

Temperatures disappointing. On Sunday, we have a big problem

because there's no agreement between all the computer models.

The Met Office one develops this area of low pressure which will

slide rain into the south of the UK, particularly wet in the south-west,

but still a lot of doubt about that to the north. Sunshine and rain in

the north of Scotland. Thank you very much.: A reminder of our top