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Scotland Yard widens the Jimmy Savile child sex abuse | :00:07. | :00:12. | |
investigation to include living people. | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
They've launched a formal criminal investigation and say some of | :00:14. | :00:21. | |
around 200 possible victims are alleging abuse by other individuals. | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
Energy companies will be forced to offer customers their best deals, | :00:24. | :00:31. | |
confirms the regulator Ofgem. Consumers need to face an effective | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
choice, that doesn't mean a choice of a bam boozeling array of | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
different tariffs. It means they can have a choice they can | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
understand. A taxi driver pleads guilty to | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
murdering Sian O'Callaghan who disappeared after leaving a | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
nightclub in Swindon last year. British police begin searching land | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
on the Greek island of Kos more than 20 years after toddler Ben | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
Needham went missing. The families of some soldiers | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
killed in Iraq have been told by the Court of Appeal that they can | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
sue the government for negligence. And an MOT test for doctors to | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
check up on their skills to make sure they're safe to practise Boris | :01:05. | :01:14. | |
Of the classroom - the Mayor wants more powers over education. And | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
sports clubs say the Government isn't doing enough to capitalise on | :01:17. | :01:27. | |
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Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
Police have announced they are widening their inquiry into alleged | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
child abuse by the BBC presenter Sir Jimmy Savile. Detectives say | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
they have established lines of inquiry involving living people | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
that now require formal investigation. More than 200 | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
potential victims have been identified and over 400 lines of | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
inquiry are now being investigated. The children's charity, the NSPCC | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
now say they think Sir Jimmy Savile could have been one of the most | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
prolific sex offenders they have ever identified. Nick Higham is | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
here. The police have announced this a short time ago, but what | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
more do you know about the police investigation? Yes, it was | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
impossible for the police to treat an inquiry into Jimmy Savile as a | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
criminal investigation because he is dead. You can't charge a dead | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
person, but what has has emerged is among the 200 victims of abuse who | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
have come forward as a result of this investigation, there are some, | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
the majority are connected with Jimmy Savile, but there are some | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
connected with other people including clearly some living | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
people which is why this has become a criminal investigation. And the | :02:42. | :02:50. | |
police are now saying that Jimmy Savile was guilty of alleged abuse | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
on an unprecedented scale and this investigation, the profile of it, | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
has empowered what the police call a staggering number of victims to | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
come forward to report sexual exploitation and the NSPCC too is | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
reiterating that, they have had 136 calls which they have passed on to | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
the police. And they say that many people are coming forward and | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
reporting abuse in their childhood as a result of the investigation. | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
So the police investigation widens and BBC investigations and there is | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
talk of a Panorama on the subject? That's right. One of the things | :03:21. | :03:28. | |
that happen now, the police have given the go-ahead for an internal | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
inquiry into the custom and practises at the BBC at the time | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
Jimmy Savile was employed, there is the possibility on Monday of a | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
Panorama investigation. The Panorama programme is one that you | :03:39. | :03:46. | |
are presenting on gambling ux but the -- but the Panorama team are | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
working on an hour long into Jimmy Savile. It is not clear if that | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
will be ready, if it is, the plan is to transmit that on Monday. | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
Has there been any response from the BBC? The BBC said that Janet | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
Smith will start start her inquiry and the police and the BBC are | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
going to draw up a protocol so she can do her work without | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
jeopardising any criminal investigation. | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
It has been confirmed that energy companies will be forced to tell | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
their customers about their cheapest deals. The energy | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
regulator, Ofgem, has unveiled its plans to make suppliers list their | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
best prices for gas and electricity on bills to make the market simpler, | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
clearer and fairer. The announcement comes two days after | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
the Prime Minister took energy companies by surprise announcing | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
new legislation next month which will force firms to put all | :04:32. | :04:40. | |
customers on the lowest tariffs. With energy bills heading ever | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
higher, it is more important than ever to be on the best deal. But | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
with hundreds of complex offers out there, today the industry regulator | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
sought to make things easier. For competition to work, consumers | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
need to face an effective choice. That doesn't mean a choice of a | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
bamboozling array of different tariffs. It means they can have a | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
choice they can understand. Ofgem says tariffs and bills need | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
to get simpler and clearer. So there will be fewer tariffs. Some | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
will be banned altogether. Customers will be alerted to | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
cheaper deals when they get their bills. There will be new standards | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
of conduct for the firms backed up by the threat of fintion. -- fines. | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
It can't come too soon for Ian Savile from Warrington. He switched | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
from his energy company when he realised it hadn't been straight | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
with him. I signed up to everything that | :05:31. | :05:38. | |
would get my tariff down, dual fuel, direct debit and online billing. It | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
was only when I started to look into the price comparison sites | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
that I realised there was a lower tariff. | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
The proposals have been wk today and -- welcomed today and they | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
should be in place next year. On the face of it, they seem seem to | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
fall short of what the Government has been promising this week. | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
On Wednesday, the Prime Minister said the Government would legislate | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
so the companies have to give customers their lowest tariff. | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
He was accused of throwing the industry into chaos. | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
Ministers have stopped short of repeating that initial pledge. As | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
for the big suppliers, they are trying to work out what the | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
Government means. But they know there are big changes ahead. | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
We believe the proposals of Ofgem are challenging, yes there is no | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
two-ways about that, but we are on the way to a more simpler market | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
than was the case a while ago. The announcements this week should | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
mean more of us are on the right deals, but that won't stop energy | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
prices from moving ever higher. Our political correspondent, Chris | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
Mason, is in Westminster. The Prime Minister took energy companies by | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
surprise on Wednesday, but the assumption must be that he had some | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
idea of what the energy regulator was going to come up with? We put | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
that question to Downing Street to the Prime Minister's official | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
spokeswoman, we didn't get a specific answer, but we were told | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
that the Government has been in communication with Ofgem and | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
ministers insist that what we have heard about this morning is | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
complimentary to what the Government is suggesting because | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
they want to help bring bills down and they want to make bills more | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
clear, but critics will say it is con dicttry rather than | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
complimentary because the regulator can enforce the energy companies to | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
change their practises without new legislation and the Government | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
insists there will be new legislation. They hope that that | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
will ensure that people can get lower prices. The other challenge | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
for Downing Street is keeping all of the coalition on board. The | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
Energy Secretary, Ed Davey was asked this morning to endorse what | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
the Prime Minister has had to say over the last 48 hours. He refused | :07:50. | :07:57. | |
to do so. He didn't contradict what the Prime Minister said, but there | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
appears to be some difference in what those two gentlemen believe. | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
The Energy Bill is coming within the next couple of weeks. Finding | :08:06. | :08:13. | |
the simple is complex and communicating it very difficult. | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
For more information on plans to simplify simplify energy tariffs, | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
A taxi driver has admitted murdering 22-year-old Sian | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
O'Callaghan 18 months after she disappeared from a night club in | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
Swindon. Father of three, Christopher Halliwell, pleaded | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
guilty to the charge at Bristol Crown Court. Our correspondent, Jon | :08:34. | :08:41. | |
Kay, is there. Jon. Yes, Sian O'Callaghan's boyfriend | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
and family have been sitting in Bristol Crown Court behind me | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
listening to this moment in the case. Christopher Halliwell a 48- | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
year-old mini-cab driver from Swindon has pleaded guilty to | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
Sian's murder in March last year. He, 48 years old and a father of | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
three. Sian was 22 years old. She had been out to a nightclub with a | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
group of friends in March last year in Swindon's Old Town. She decided | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
to walk home on her own after having a few drinks. Her boyfriend | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
told her to get a cab back because he thought she would be safer. | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
Christopher Halliwell, we have heard today, had been driving round | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
that night, circling in Swindon, he picked Sian up, he drove her to the | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
Savernake Forest about ten miles south of Swindon. There he sexually | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
assaulted her and stabbed her twice in the back of the head. Blood was | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
found in his cab later by the police. You might remember that | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
thousands of local people turned out to search the forest looking | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
for Sian's body at the time. What is happening at the moment, the | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
prosecution are outlining the case as they have it against Christopher | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
Halliwell. That information is being given to the judge so she can | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
consider it for her sentencing. Victim impact statements have been | :09:53. | :09:59. | |
read out by members of Sian's family, describing their loss. Her | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
boyfriend said that her murder meant his heart had been ripped out. | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
He felt his life has been destroyed. The defence will give any | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
mitigating circumstances in court later this afternoon and then the | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
judge will decide on statements and sentence and we expect we will get | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
that and more information as the day goes by. Sophie. | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
Jon Kay, thank you very much. European Union leaders have taken | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
another step towards forming a banking union in the countries that | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
use the euro. At talks in Brussels which lasted into the early hours | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
of the morning, they agreed a timetable for bringing the | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
eurozone's 6,000 banks under the supervision of the European Central | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
Bank. It could be up and running by next year. Our Europe correspondent, | :10:42. | :10:48. | |
Matthew Price, reports. Good afternoon, Sophie. What we know now | :10:48. | :10:54. | |
as you have just said that is by the 1st January, within two-and-a- | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
half months, if they stick to this agreement, they hope to have to | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
have put in place the rules and the regulations that would allow that | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
banking supervisor to be set-up. The idea is having the ECB have | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
oversight over the banks in the eurozone would stop them getting | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
into the mess they are in at the moment. The mess that has helped to | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
create the eurozone debt crisis, but what they agreed in the early | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
hours of this morning in and of itself won't be enough to solve the | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
There was agreement here, enough to put a spring in the step of the | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
leaders this morning, but it is an agreement that requires more | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
difficult negotiations, no one is over playing it. | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
TRANSLATION: There is an agreement. A good one. We have got a time | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
frame. They worked through the early hours | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
as did the Brussels Press Pack trying to fix the single currency. | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
Part of that fix is to set-up a a system to oversee banks in the euro | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
area, a so-called banking union. The first step is to have a single | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
supervisor for banks to oversee their activitys, by the end of the | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
year, they know promise to have put in place the right laws for this to | :12:02. | :12:10. | |
happen. The Germans suggest that might slip. TRANSLATION: It is | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
really ambitious to try and establish the legal framework | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
quickly. We shouldn't disappoint markets, by changing short-term | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
announcements again and again. For those not in the euro, these | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
are uncertain times. Britain supports the banking union, but | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
wants safeguards to protect its own financial sector in the City of | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
London. And what of Britain's relationship with the EU? As euro | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
countries get more integrated, where does Britain fit in? | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
Ministers say publicly there is no problem, but as one Finnish | :12:41. | :12:47. | |
minister put it here, as if the UK is on the sidelines waving bye-bye | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
as the EU boat sets sail. I don't accept that for a minute. | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
Am I happy with the status quo in Europe? No, I am not. There are | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
changes we need. As the eurozone develops and integrates which is | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
bound to happen, there are opportunities opening up for what I | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
have said should be a new settlement between Britain and | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
Europe, but I don't accept this idea that somehow Britain doesn't | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
pull its weight. Indeed, one key point he has been pushing today is | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
how to get Europe's economies growing again. | :13:20. | :13:27. | |
For the big picture here, is of a Continent deep in debt. Its | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
economies stagnating as its populations age, resolving that | :13:30. | :13:40. | |
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And just one quick foot note. At the moment, vifers seem to have -- | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
investors seem to have more confidence that the euro currency | :13:44. | :13:52. | |
area is not going to split up. It has taken the pressure pressure off | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
the politicians who have to take the difficult decisions as one | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
official in Brussels put it this week, they only make the difficult | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
decisions when the pressure is Greek and British police | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
investigating the disappearance of the toddler Ben Needham more than | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
20 years ago have started searching a mound of earth close to where he | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
went missing. Ben was just 21- months-old when he vanished on the | :14:15. | :14:24. | |
Greek island of Kos in July 1991. On a hillside on a Greek island, | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
blue and white British police tape is being used to mark the area | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
where a British toddler's body may lie. Ben Needham vanished here in | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
1991. Was he the victim of an abduction or an accident? There are | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
concerns he may have fallen under earth and rubble being moved in | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
building work at the time. And so more than a dozen UK police | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
officers are here to investigate. We have got more technology. We | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
have got access to better equipment. We have got better trained staff. | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
And we are in a position where we can do a far more indepth search | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
today than we were able to do back in 1991. | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
This is the spot where Ben Needham was last seen alive 21 years ago. | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
For the first time in over two decades, police have come here to | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
search the area in great detail. Can they solve the mystery of Ben | :15:18. | :15:28. | |
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His mother has always believed Ben is still alive, but she has now | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
admitted this operation has planted doubts in her mind, but if the | :15:36. | :15:42. | |
search finds nothing, a combination of agony and hope for her. For the | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
next two days, British police and Greek search teams will be working | :15:46. | :15:53. | |
hard to try to prove his or disproved the theory that Ben is | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
buried on this hillside. The Court of Appeal has ruled that | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
some families of British soldiers killed in Iraq can sue the Ministry | :16:01. | :16:11. | |
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of Defence for negligence. The cases concern a soldier who died in | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
a "friendly fire" incident and threekilled when his lightly | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
armoured Snatch Land Rover were attacked. The government had argued | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
that decisions about battlefield equipment were for politicians and | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
commanders, not the law courts. This is probably a partial victory | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
for the families and a partial setback for the Ministry of Defence. | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
It dates back to when British forces were fighting in Iraq. The | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
first case was in 2003, where a British tank fired mistakenly on | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
another British tanks. One died and two were injured. The survivors and | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
families argued if they had had the right equipment, this would not | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
have happened, and therefore, negligence. Three soldiers were | :16:54. | :17:00. | |
then killed in three separate incidents when they are lightly | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
armoured Land Rovers went over IEDs, and they were killed. Their | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
relatives are arguing both in terms of negligence against the MoD and | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
human rights. Today's ruling by the Court of Appeal has upheld the | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
right to campaign for negligence but not human rights. | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
What implications could these cases have? | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
This could throw it back to the High Court. Some would say it would | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
take it back to where it was in 2011. It opens the way for the | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
families to argue this. If they are successful, and they are a long way | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
off, but if they win their case, namely that the Ministry of Defence | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
has a case to answer in terms of duty of care, it could | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
theoretically affect the we military operations are conducted | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
on the ground. The commanders will be reluctant to send people into | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
the path of danger if they would end up being sued in court. | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
Our top story this lunchtime: Police widen their inquiry into the | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
Jimmy Savile child abuse allegations. There will now be a | :18:02. | :18:03. | |
criminal investigation into living people. | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
Coming up: The girl shot in the head by the Taliban is now standing | :18:09. | :18:15. | |
and writing notes, say doctors treating her in Birmingham. | :18:15. | :18:22. | |
Later on BBC London: Alien invasion. The non-native species taking over | :18:22. | :18:32. | |
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the Thames. And we look ahead to Doctors across the UK are to face | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
annual checks on their skills to ensure they are safe to practise in | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
what has been dubbed a medical MOT. The scheme will start in December, | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
with a decision taken every five years on whether they are fit to | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
continue working. The General Medical Council says it is the | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
biggest change in medical regulation for 150 years. Sophie | :18:53. | :18:59. | |
Hutchinson reports. Every year, doctors in the UK treat | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
tens of millions of patients but there has been no mandatory checks | :19:03. | :19:09. | |
on their skills and safety. From December, regular checks will begin | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
for the first time on all 220,000 doctors. They will have annual | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
appraisals and every five years, a review will decide whether they can | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
keep practising. Concerns such as poor attitude and rudeness to | :19:22. | :19:29. | |
patients could mean the renewal of their licence is deferred. But is | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
serious issues about safety are picked up, it could mean they are | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
struck off the medical register. It is the biggest shake-up in medical | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
regulation for 150 years. patients' trust their doctors and | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
the vast majority of good doctors, but I think patients need that | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
assurance that doctors are being regularly checked. It is not enough | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
to say they pass some exams 30 years ago. You would not accept | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
that from a pilot. The lessons learned from the scandals of baby | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
deaths at Bristol Royal Infirmary and the serial killer GP Harold | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
Shipman have helped create these new checks. They are designed as a | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
preventative measure up to pick up on the early warning signs of | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
problem doctors before tragedy occurs. It cannot be a ticking | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
boxes process. We need guarantees that information from complaints | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
and litigation, for example, are used to excess -- as has become the | :20:26. | :20:34. | |
deceit of doctors -- are used to assess the competency of doctors. | :20:34. | :20:42. | |
The process of assessments will begin in six weeks but it cannot be | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
until 2016 that all UK doctors are regularly checked to ensure patient | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
safety. Government borrowing fell last | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
month to �12.8 billion compared with 13.5 billion in the same month | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
last year. The improvement was largely driven by a rise in tax | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
receipts and a drop in spending on government assets. Our economics | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
editor is here. Good news. Yes. We have had quite a lot of | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
economic good news this week but the Chancellor will be particularly | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
pleased to see these figures. We have had six months of the taxi and | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
now, and the borrower when figures were very disappointing for the | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
Chancellor for the first five -- six months of this tax year. The | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
Chancellor was thinking he may have to borrow more than last year, | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
which gave a stick to the opposition will stop this month's | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
figures do not completely changed the picture but it does make things | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
look much better. The deficit, the gap between what the government | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
spends and what it takes him in tax revenues, was low were this | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
September than in any other September since 2008. They also | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
decided that spending was a lot lower in the previous five months | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
than they thought, which has taken nearly 7 billion Office borrowing | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
in the last year it. Borodin for the first six months is still a bit | :22:01. | :22:09. | |
higher than last year -- but a win. And it stills looks as though it be | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
adjustable be missing his targets a bit, but it is still good news, and | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
he may not have to revise his number's quite so much if this | :22:17. | :22:23. | |
continues, although people still face tough decisions in December. | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
Jeremy Bamber has lost the first stage of his latest legal move over | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
his convictions for murdering five relatives more than 25 years ago. A | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
judge has refused him permission to challenge the decision not to send | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
his case to the Court of Appeal. Bamber is serving a whole life | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
sentence for shooting five members of his family in Essex in 1985. | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
Trenton Oldfield, the man who disrupted this year's Oxford and | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
Cambridge Boat Race by swimming into the path of the crews on the | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
Thames, was today sentenced to six months in jail at Isleworth Crown | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
Court. He was convicted of causing a public nuisance. Oldfield said he | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
was protesting against elitism. Police searching for a 37-year-old | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
woman, who has been missing for five days, have found a burned out | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
car near her home in North Wales. Catherine Gowing, who is a vet, | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
failed to arrive at work on Monday. A 46-year-old man remains in police | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
custody after being arrested on suspicion of her murder on Tuesday | :23:11. | :23:20. | |
night. Yes, a police helicopter is | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
circling above us. Meanwhile on the ground, forensic teams are closely | :23:25. | :23:31. | |
examining the wreckage of this burnt out car. The search for | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
Catherine Gowing's vehicle has been a key part of this investigation, | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
ever since friends and colleagues realised on Monday that she was | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
missing. Police were called to this country lane after a member of the | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
public reported a burnt-out car matching the description of | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
Catherine Gowing's vehicles. The purple Renault Cleo has been | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
missing since Friday and has a distinctive Irish numberplate. | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
Catherine was last spotted at a supermarket on Friday night. CCTV | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
shows her shopping for food. She has practice abbeys at an pre- | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
surgery for 18 months but when she failed to show up for work, her | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
colleagues caught in the police -- she has practice at this vet | :24:13. | :24:20. | |
surgery. We hope for the best but fear the worst. We only realised on | :24:20. | :24:26. | |
Monday because she did not turn up for work. Some of the other staff | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
tried to contact her over the weekend and failed. Forensics | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
searches have also taken place at Catherine Gowing's house. Police | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
are continuing to question a 46- year-old man and a suspicion of | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
murder. He has not been named but police officers say he is known to | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
Catherine Gowing. Her sister has travelled to North Wales to help | :24:47. | :24:57. | |
:24:57. | :24:58. | ||
police service has pieced together information about her private life. | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
-- to help police to get information. We are expecting to | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
hear in the next few hours whether this to be got is the one police | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
had been searching for, and with it contains any vital evidence in the | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
third or Catherine Gowing. Meanwhile they have a few hours to | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
question the 46-year-old arrested on suspicion of murder and that the | :25:19. | :25:29. | |
:25:29. | :25:29. | ||
end of that, they can apply for a further 24 hours questioning. | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
The captain of an aircraft at Glasgow Airport preparing to depart | :25:34. | :25:41. | |
for Alicante declared an emergency shortly before take-off this | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
morning. It is believed smoke was detected in the cabin. The runway | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
has now been reopened. At least nine soldiers have been | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
killed in an attack on a military base in southern Yemen. A car | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
packed with explosives blew up at the site in the town of Shuqra. | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
Moments later the base was attacked by a number of militants. It is | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
reported at least 11 of the suspected Al-Qaeda attackers were | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
killed. Ten days after she was shot in the | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
head on a school bus in Pakistan, doctors in Birmingham say Malala | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
Yousafzai has been able to stand for the first time and is able to | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
communicate by writing notes. The 14-year-old was attacked as a | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
punishment for promoting the education of girls and criticising | :26:22. | :26:24. | |
Taliban militants. She was flown to the UK this week for treatment. | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
Jeremy Cooke reports. A teenage girl at school. A | :26:30. | :26:36. | |
remarkable round the world. But in the Swat Valley in Pakistan, this | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
is an act of defiance, and one that almost cost Malala Yousafzai her | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
life. Shot in the head by the Taliban for attending class and | :26:44. | :26:50. | |
encouraging friends to do the same. Her story has generated worldwide | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
media focused and today, DRS in Birmingham have been giving details | :26:54. | :27:00. | |
of their 14-year-old patient's injured wrist. She was shot in the | :27:00. | :27:06. | |
head. The bullet entered above her left eye. It grazed her brain as it | :27:06. | :27:13. | |
went past the temple and went down, damaging her jaw joint on the way, | :27:13. | :27:19. | |
and ended up in the muscles above the shoulder blades on the left, so | :27:19. | :27:24. | |
quite an extensive injury. Remarkable that she survived then? | :27:24. | :27:30. | |
It is quite remarkable. Malala's journey to Britain began soon after | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
she was attacked 10 days ago near her home. Initial surgery had | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
removed the bullet but then the decision to move her across | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
continents to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, where staff have | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
extensive experience treating injured British soldiers. She is | :27:45. | :27:50. | |
doing remarkably well. She is beginning to stand with help from | :27:50. | :27:54. | |
the physiotherapist and the nurses this morning. She is able to write | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
and understand what we say. government of Pakistan has | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
recognised Malala's bravery with one of its highest awards. Her | :28:03. | :28:08. | |
medical team here hope that that same coverage will help her fight | :28:08. | :28:14. | |
off infection and make a full recovery. | :28:14. | :28:24. | |
:28:24. | :28:26. | ||
Reasonably optimistic we will get some dry weather this weekend. You | :28:26. | :28:31. | |
might have to wait for the sunny weather because there may be some | :28:31. | :28:37. | |
overnight fog. The main problem is a weather front that is too close | :28:37. | :28:42. | |
for comfort at the south east of the UK. Much heavier rain causing | :28:42. | :28:46. | |
problems of further south in France and Spain. Much quieter where they | :28:46. | :28:52. | |
hear. The next pulse of rain is already beginning to move in, or to | :28:52. | :28:58. | |
south-east England and East Anglia. Rain in north-east Scotland as well. | :28:58. | :29:01. | |
Through the central part of England, the Midlands and northern England, | :29:01. | :29:08. | |
it should be a bright afternoon. Not very pleasant across the | :29:08. | :29:16. | |
northern part of Scotland, except in the far north-west. Brighter for | :29:16. | :29:21. | |
much of Northern Ireland, the odd shower in the east. It should be | :29:21. | :29:27. | |
fine for much of Wales and south- west England. Sunshine, very light | :29:27. | :29:35. | |
winds. It will feel really quite pleasant, about as high as an | :29:35. | :29:39. | |
average temperature in the West for this type of year. That | :29:39. | :29:44. | |
temperatures will struggle for the East there. Not too pleasant in the | :29:44. | :29:48. | |
south-east England for the evening rush and it will link up for parts | :29:48. | :29:53. | |
of tonight, eventually clearing away. In between, the fog will | :29:53. | :29:57. | |
become more widespread tonight, so watch out for that early tomorrow | :29:57. | :30:07. | |
:30:07. | :30:07. | ||
Tomorrow, it will be a dull start of most of us but the fog will | :30:07. | :30:13. | |
gradually clear. It might take a while. Showers may be across Wales | :30:13. | :30:15. | |
and the south-west of England through the afternoon, but | :30:16. | :30:25. | |
otherwise, largely dried. -- dry. The rain has another go at coming | :30:25. | :30:29. | |
back into the south-east on Saturday night! It should clear | :30:29. | :30:35. | |
away again on Sunday, so the same sort of picture. Overnight fog, | :30:35. | :30:41. | |
sunny spells gradually breaking through. Pleasant enough. It looks | :30:41. | :30:47. | |
like we will keep the mild weather into the early part of next week. | :30:47. | :30:57. | |
:30:57. | :30:58. |