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Sentenced to life in prison - a homeless man is found guilty of the | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
brutal murders of a vicar and retired teacher. Stephen Farrow, | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
who has a hatred for Christians, stabbed Betty Yates and Reverend | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
John Suddards in their homes earlier this year. | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
The exams watchdog criticises teachers for overgenerous marking | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
of coursework, which led to this summer's controversy over GCSE | :00:30. | :00:36. | |
English results. Plainly intended to deceive. Denis | :00:36. | :00:43. | |
MacShane faces suspension from the Commons for fiddling expenses. | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
Recovering from sandy - long queues for food and fuel as millions | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
remain without power. Britain's ash trees under threat. The | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
Government's emergency committee meet to discuss the killer | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
infection. And back on earth - Felix | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
Baumgartner says he never feared for his life even though he only | :00:57. | :01:05. | |
On BBC London: A former counter- terrorism officer appears in court | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
to deny misconduct in public office. And what future for London's | :01:08. | :01:18. | |
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airports, as expansion plans are Good afternoon and welcome to the | :01:26. | :01:36. | |
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A homeless drifter with a hatred for Christians has been jailed for | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
life for murdering a vicar and a retired teacher. Stephen Farrow | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
stabbed his victims to death earlier this year in woirst and | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
Gloucestershire, but denied murder on the grounds of diminished | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
responsibility. He claimed he was abused by a priest at boarding | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
school. This morning a jury found the 48-year-old guilty of murder on | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
both counts. He has been sentenced to life in prison. | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
Stephen Farrow, a homeless drifter with a hatred of the church. He | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
claimed as a child he had been abused by a priest. His victims | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
could hardly have been more respected members of their | :02:14. | :02:21. | |
communities. Betty Yates, a retired teacher and regular church gory and | :02:21. | :02:28. | |
Reverend John Suddards were killed six weeks and 75 miles apart. | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
Farrow turned up at Betty Yates' cottage. He battered her with her | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
walking stick before stabbing her four times in the head. Pharaoh, | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
seen here on CCTV, then went on the run, before arriving in Thornbury | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
near Bristol in early February. There, he burgled a cottage leaving | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
a note pibed to the table with two knives referring to Christian scuk. | :02:53. | :03:02. | |
"I hate God ," it said. Farrow found John Suddards alone at his | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
vicarage. He told a psychiatrist that he stabbed the reverend and | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
kicked him to keep him down and ordered him to die and hurry after. | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
After, he spent the night here drinking beer and watching DVDs. | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
When the police arrived they found a Bible and a picture of Jesus | :03:22. | :03:31. | |
placed alongside the body. I could well have been another victim. | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
Michaela met him while volunteering at a church vigil. He texted her. | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
"I won't stop until I'm caught. You don't know how disturbed I am. The | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
church will be the first to suffer." She said the police | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
ignored her warnings. Maybe the two deaths of Betty and the Reverend | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
would not have happened. I just find it so sad that those two | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
people had to die in those circumstances. But Farrow, who was | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
finally brought to justice by DNA evidence, will no longer be a | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
threat to the public. Let's speak to our correspondent, | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
Jon Brain, who's at Bristol Crown Court. In the last few minutes, the | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
judge has sentenced him to life in prison. Yes, in fact, a whole life | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
sentence. The judge said that he'd acted sadistically and that a whole | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
life sentence was needed. Theoretically he could spend the | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
rest of his days in prison. He actually refused to attend his | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
trial here at Bristol and was in his prison cell while the graphic | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
details of the killings of Betty Yates and John Suddards were given | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
to the court. But it was here in the dock -- he was here as the jury | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
delivered their verdicts on murder on both counts. | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
The exams watchdog has criticised teachers for overgenerous marking | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
of coursework which led to this summer's controversy over GCSE | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
English results. Ofqual claims that examiners were forced to raise the | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
grade boundaries as a result. Teaching unions have accused the | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
regulator of shifting blame. Our education correspondent, Reeta | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
Chakrabarti, reports. The row over GCSE English has been a bitter one. | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
Until now, it's focused on exam boards raising the bar to get a | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
good grade halfway through the year so that those pupils, who sat the | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
paper in January needed fewer marks than those would sat it in June. | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
Ofqual has looked closely at coursework for the exam or | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
controlled assessment as it's called, done under strict classroom | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
supervision. It said teachers in some secondary schools were guilty | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
of significantly overmarking the work to boost grades. I have been | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
shocked, I think students have been let down and it won't do. They need | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
to learn the skills of English. It's so important to them. What I | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
suspect here is that too many of them have been taught how to get | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
through hoops rather than really get the life skill that's they need. | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
It's half term at this London school, but these pueprilz | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
preparing for resits this month. They were predicted C grades but | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
got Ds. They're now at college but have been coming back to school to | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
revise. I feel let down. Because I was supposed to trust the | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
Government and teachers and schools that I can achieve this grade when | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
they help me. But because now that I was supposed to a -- achieve the | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
grade but they lowered it for not a good enough reason. The head | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
teacher is furious that teachers are being blamed. Outraged, | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
absolutely outraged. The report that came out today failed, and I'm | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
disappointed with Ofqual, because they failed to recognise and take | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
responsibility for their own mistakes and have pointed the | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
finger at others. Thousands have been unhappy with their English | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
marks. 45,000 pupils are resitting the exam this month. Unions | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
estimate tens of thousands were predicted C grades who then got a D. | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
Playgrounds may be empty this week, but the fallout from the marking | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
row goes on with questions being asked not just about last summer's | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
grades but about the system of school league tables too. Ofqual | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
maintains that teachers being overgenerous forced examers to | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
raise the number of marks needed to get a good grade. The but the | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
watchdog faces legal action from groups who want papers to be | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
regraded, as in Wales. We all become better... The Education | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
Secretary Michael Gove is strongly opposed to MoD lar exams sat at | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
different times of the year and they're be phased out by 2014. The | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
pressure that league tables put on schools to get good grades has yet | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
to be addressed. The former Labour minister, Denis | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
MacShane, faces suspension from Parliament for 12 months for | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
fiddling his expenses. The committee for Standards and | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
Privileges has found he committed a series of -- submitted a series of | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
invoices plainly intended to deceive. Calling it the gravest | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
case on which it has passed judgment. Our correspondent Chris | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
Mason is at Westminster. When do these claims date back to? These | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
claims relate to 2005 to 2008. The Standards and Privileges Committee | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
unflinching in its criticism of Denis MacShane. The criticism | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
pertains to two aspects of expenses. Firstly, computers. MPs are allowed | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
to claim for IT equipment. But they believe that Mr MacShane's claims | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
were excessive. He had access to three laptops and three PCs in | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
addition he claimed for a further eight computers. Criticism too for | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
claims relating to Denis MacShane's interest in European politics. He | :08:45. | :08:52. | |
submitted a good number of invoices from the European policy institute. | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
The MPs conclude the bank account of the institute was controlled by | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
Mr MacShane. What happened now? has been, as far as the committee | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
are concerned, recommended for suspension from the Commons for a | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
period of 12 months. It is at this stage a recommendation. But it | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
would appear likely that Parliament is likely to follow through and | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
carry out that suspension. Mr MacShane has said he's shocked and | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
saddened at the news. He has apologised and repaid the money | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
that he had claimed. The Labour Party this lunch time have said | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
that they have suspended him. Mr MacShane says his career has been | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
all be destroy -- but destroyed. COBRA the Government crisis | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
committee, which normally meets to discuss national emergencies, has | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
been meeting to discuss the threat to the UK's native ash trees. The | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
fungal disease, which has wiped out up to 90% of ash trees in Denmark, | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
was first identified in mature trees here last month. Our rural | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
affairs correspondent, Jeremy Cooke, reports. It is a killer disease, a | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
fungal infection which first weakens, then wipes out ash trees | :09:58. | :10:05. | |
in their thousands. The symptoms are obvious, dead, blackened leaves, | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
linear scars along the bark. Britain's 80 million ash trees are | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
under threat with potentially disastrous consequences for the | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
landscape, environment and the economy. So today the Government's | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
response, a meeting of the COBRA committee, normally associated with | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
cor alerts and national crises. This amid claims that ministers | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
ignored warning that's may have stopped the disease before it got | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
here. We know this is a very serious disease which has caused | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
real damage in other countries, such as Denmark. That is why we, as | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
a Government, are taking it so extremely seriously. I've called | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
together the COBRA meeting today so that every Government agency and | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
devolves administrations can work together to control it. These | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
Government labs outside York are in the front line of this battle. | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
Their first task is to establish how fart disease has spread. The | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
work here starts with this -- how far the disease has spread. The | :11:04. | :11:11. | |
work here starts with this, this piece of ash. There is a dark | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
lesion there. That's a classic symptom. We need scientific | :11:16. | :11:25. | |
evidence. That means extracting the DNA. They need to identify the | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
fungus. Good news is that cases in the wild are limited to East Anglia. | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
The bad news, there's no known way to control the spread. It is very | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
difficult to control. Any organisation, particularly wind | :11:36. | :11:42. | |
borne, it is very difficult to have control on it. We are looking into | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
measures which we can manage this problem. At stake is some of our | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
most Cherished countryside. Ash trees make up about 30% of British | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
woodland, seldom have they been under such grave threat. | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
Freddie Starr has been released on police bail after being questioned | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
by detectives investigating the Jimmy Savile sex scandal. The | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
immediation was arrested last night -- the comedian was arrested last | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
night. He has denied claims that he groped a girl of 14 while in a room | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
with Savile. The Foreign Office has raised the | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
terrorist threat for Egypt to severe. There is now a high risk of | :12:23. | :12:29. | |
attack. It warns travels not to go to Sinai where there have been | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
hijackings and kidnaps. On the East Coast of America, food | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
and fuel shortages have led to long queues in New York and New Jersey, | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
as residents try to get their lifdz back to normal after superstorm | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
sandy. About 4.5 million people are still without power. Some have been | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
told they won't be reconnected for another ten days. More than 90 | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
people are known to have died during Monday's devastating storm. | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
Here's Mike Wooldridge. As the week draws to a close, after one of the | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
worst storms this part of America has seen, in some places the | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
frustration is now boiling over. We're going to die. We're going to | :13:07. | :13:17. | |
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freeze. We've got 90-year-old people. I just spent $30,000 in my | :13:18. | :13:24. | |
home. And it's all gone. We are working class neighbourhood and | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
it's just like fend for yourselves kind of thing. Transport of all | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
kinds is severely affected. Motorists are forced to wait for | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
hours in some cases, to fill up. At one point power cuts affected eight | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
million homes and businesses. The power is still out for nearly four | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
million and that's also a source of growing impatience. We're looking | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
for some type of support here. We have no power. I was hoping that I | :13:50. | :13:57. | |
would come down here and maybe we would have generators or power | :13:57. | :14:03. | |
supplies. Generators are not available. FEMA is one of the | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
targets of those criticising the response of the authorities and of | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
others involved in disaster relief. All these people making these big | :14:11. | :14:18. | |
salrilz should be out there on the front line. -- salaries. I am | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
disappointed. Some of the frustration is shared by local | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
politicians. The city of New York is talking about getting water out | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
of the battery tunnel and preparing for a marathon. We're pulling | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
bodies out of waurtd. You see the disconnect here? There are recovery | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
operations taking place across the affected areas of New York and the | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
surrounding states. There are various kinds of relief supplies | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
being distributed. But if the accusation and the perception gains | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
ground that the response is much slower in working class districts | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
than in wealthier areas, the question is whether there could yet | :14:52. | :14:58. | |
be political fall out as election day approaches. Today's October | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
employment figures show the jobless rate slightly up after falling in | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
September. Employers are adding more jobs and highering more | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
strongly. All this with the campaign now back in full swing and | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
the presidential raise judged too close to call. President Obama | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
acknowledging that there's a long way to go in dealing with the | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
superstorm, but insisting that in the last few days, America has been | :15:20. | :15:27. | |
With four days until the presidential election the campaign | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
is back if full swing. Our correspondent Laura Trevelyan is in | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
Cleveland in the crucial swing state of Ohio. | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
Is there any sense of this growing disquiet having any sort of impact | :15:38. | :15:44. | |
on the campaign trail? Well, undoubtedly it will do and both | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
candidates are here campaigning in Ohio today. Both want the crucial | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
18 votes that it has in the electoral college and when | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
President Obama is here he is going to have to respond to this growing | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
sense of frustration that people without power, that people without | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
homes are feeling. Equally for Mitt Romney, he may want to criticise | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
aspects of the storm response, he will have to be careful not to be | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
too critical. For both men it's very difficult. They are | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
campaigning. The election is on Tuesday. But they don't want to | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
make a political issue out of what is a natural disaster, while at the | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
same time they may wish to but they can't do it overtly. With a few | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
days to go there's been good news for President Obama on the jobs | :16:26. | :16:32. | |
front. Some good news. 171,000 jobs were created in the last month. But | :16:33. | :16:39. | |
the unemployment rate has ticked up from 7.8% to 7.9% because more | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
people are joining the workforce. There's something interesting going | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
on here, which is that consumers are feeling quite confident. | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
They're starting to spend again. Here where I am actually the | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
economy is doing relatively well and unemployment is actually below | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
the national average, at about 7%. Businesses are very concerned about | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
something called the fiscal cliff. This will hit early next year where | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
there will be big automatic spending cuts in Government and tax | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
increases unless congressional leaders can agree their way out of | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
this impasse. Thank you. Our top story: | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
A homeless man has been jailed for life for the brutal murders of a | :17:17. | :17:24. | |
vicar and a retired teacher. Stephen Farro warbgs stabbed | :17:24. | :17:30. | |
Reverend John Suddards and Betty Yates in their homes. | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
Coming up, after the wettest summer for 100 years many parts of the UK | :17:34. | :17:40. | |
face the risk of flooding. On BBC London: Claims a mother from Surrey | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
was given electric shock therapy without permission from her family. | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
We are at the O2 getting ready to host the world's best tennis | :17:47. | :17:57. | |
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Members of China's ruling Communist Party are getting ready to appoint | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
new leaders who'll rule the country for the next decade. But what sort | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
of legacy will they inherit? The remarkable Three Gorges Dam may | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
have become a symbol of China's development, but while it produces | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
vast amounts of hydroelectric power, it's come at an environmental and | :18:12. | :18:20. | |
human cost, as our correspondent Martin Patience reports. | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
It's one of the biggest dams ever built. Stretching for over two | :18:25. | :18:31. | |
kilometres and costing over $40 billion, the Three Gorges Dam was | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
designed to tame the mighty YangtzeW a project on this scale | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
nobody was allowed to get in the way. | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
When the dam was completed these fishermen were told to leave. But | :18:45. | :18:51. | |
they say it's the only job they know. TRANSLATION: | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
We can't make a living if we can't fish. We have appealed to the | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
Government but no one is listening. This huge dam stands as a symbol of | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
China's development. Over the last decade, the scale and pace of | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
change has been unprecedented. But the way that millions of people | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
have been pushed aside by the Communist Party has generated | :19:12. | :19:20. | |
enormous resentment. Fu Xiancai was one of millions forced to relocate | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
because of the dam. He never received compensation he was due. | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
When he he complained to local officials he says he was beaten, | :19:30. | :19:37. | |
leaving him paralysed. TRANSLATION: If ordinary people can defend their | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
own rights, and if Government officials follow the law, then this | :19:41. | :19:48. | |
country will change for the better. Much of China's wealth is now | :19:48. | :19:54. | |
flowing down the Yangtze. Like in other cities the people here are | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
becoming used to being better off. Many are no longer prepared to be | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
pushed around like in the past. And for China's new leaders that means | :20:04. | :20:11. | |
ruling a population less likely to follow the party line. | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
You can get more information on the issues and challenges facing | :20:15. | :20:25. | |
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China's new leaders on our website. Two men have been arrested in | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
connection with the murder of a prison officer in Northern Ireland. | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
David Black was shot yesterday as he drove to his job at a high- | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
security jail in Country Antrim. It's believed dissident republicans | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
were responsible for the attack. The men, aged 31 and 44, were | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
detained in the Lurgan area. Our correspondent Chris Buckler reports. | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
David Black was a prison officer during some of the worst periods of | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
the Troubles but his family are grieving at a time of relative | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
peace and today detectives arrested two men in connection with his | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
killing. When police first found his car at | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
the side of the M1 motorway they thought it was a simple road | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
accident, rather than a murder. In fact, David Black was already dead | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
when his car veered into this ditch, killed by gun shots fired from | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
another vehicle. The Government will do whatever we can to help the | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
PSNI bring the perpetrators of this atrocity to justice. One of the men | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
that's been arrested is the well- known Republican Colin Duffy. | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
Earlier this year he was acquitted of killing two soldiers outside a | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
barracks in Antrim. He always denied any involvement in the | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
attack. But he has described himself as a dissident Republican. | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
If that means somebody who dissents from mainstream Sinn Fein thinking, | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
then I am quite happy to class myself in that light. Awaiting | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
trial Colin Duffy had been held on remand in Maghaberry prison. David | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
Black had been travelling to work there when he was shot. It's | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
understood that Mr Black's son drove past the scene of the murder | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
yesterday morning without realising that his father had been the victim | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
of an ambush. And this shooting does raise real security concerns. | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
He is the first prison officer to be killed in Northern Ireland by | :22:07. | :22:16. | |
paramilitaries in almost 20 years. Another leading bank has increased | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
the amount it has set aside to compensate customers who were mis- | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
sold Payment Protection Insurance. RBS, which is 80% owned by the | :22:22. | :22:29. | |
taxpayer, is earmarking an extra �400 million for the payouts. The | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
additional cost helped plunge the bank into a loss of �1.25 billion | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
in the three months to September. Our personal finance correspondent | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
Simon Gompertz is here. Another bank that seems to have got figures | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
wrong over this. Lloyds and Barclays have had to set aside | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
large extra sums. This PPI cover was supposed to help you out with | :22:46. | :22:52. | |
your loan repayments if you fell sick or lost your job but in many | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
cases it was inappropriate. Let me take you through the compensation | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
figures. With Royal Bank of Scotland it's now 1.7 billion, the | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
funds they've set aside with this extra sum. If you take all the | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
banks and building societies together, the total has reached | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
�12.7 billion. A staggering sum. More than they expected. Partly | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
because there's been so much publicity encouraging people to | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
claim and partly because they're having to go directly to some | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
customers and tell them they may have lost out. A lot of people | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
making claims. What kind of compensation are they getting? | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
Typically it's just under �3,000 or more than that in some cases. By my | :23:31. | :23:37. | |
calculation it's around 10,000 cheques or payments per day going | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
out from the banks, around �30 million a day. This could go on for | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
another year or so. That's barring further claims coming in. So it's a | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
massive exercise. A lot of money going into people's pockets. Thank | :23:50. | :23:57. | |
you. We've had the wettest summer in a | :23:57. | :23:59. | |
century and many heavy downpours since and now the Environment | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
Agency has warned of a heightened risk of flooding across parts of | :24:02. | :24:08. | |
the UK. It says the south-west and northern and western parts of | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
England and Wales are at risk and that even relatively small amounts | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
of rain could trigger floods, because rivers are full and ground | :24:14. | :24:16. | |
saturated. Our Wales Correspondent Hywel Griffith reports. | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
After a summer that left Britain soaked through, get ready for even | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
more of this. The wettest April to June on record was followed by even | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
more heavy rainfall, leaving rivers full and the ground saturated. That | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
means it won't take much to trigger a flood. We are especially | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
concerned about south-west England, Wales and north-west England. We | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
have seen a lot of floods over the course of the summer and autumn | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
period already, over the summer we issued in excess of 100,000 flood | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
warnings to people. Back in June the residents here | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
were given a warning but it came too late for many to save their | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
homes from the flood. The river actually came in and rose to about | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
6ft high throughout the whole of the house. In the aftermath, Mick | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
showed me around his sodden home and what was left of the gardens. | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
For months they've been trying to put life back together here and now | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
they've been told it could all happen over again. It's not good | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
news, as you might expect. We did hope to be back in by Christmas but | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
that's out of the window now and looks like it's going to be January | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
or February before we can get back into the house. We are really | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
anxious to get back in, we are tired of it all now. I have lost my | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
sense of humour about it all, I have to say. It's only three weeks | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
since the people here in Devon witnessed two inches of rainfall in | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
an hour. It's one of the areas that will be vulnerable again during the | :25:40. | :25:50. | |
:25:50. | :25:52. | ||
autumn. Over five million people in England and Wales live and work in | :25:52. | :25:54. | |
places at risk of flooding. The Environment Agency says they should | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
start thinking now about moving valuables to a safe and dry place, | :25:57. | :25:58. | |
rather than wait for the rivers to rise. | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
More than a million people have already signed up to receive free | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
flood warnings by e-mail, text or phone message. Those lines are set | :26:05. | :26:14. | |
to be busier than ever before this autumn. | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
Just a few weeks ago, not many people knew the name Felix | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
Baumgartner. But that all changed when he leapt from a balloon 24 | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
miles above the Earth. Now back safely on the ground, he's been | :26:23. | :26:25. | |
speaking to our correspondent Tim Muffett about his record-breaking | :26:25. | :26:33. | |
skydive. He began by describing his feelings as he got ready to jump. | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
When you are up there on top of the world and you stand there, you | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
finally realise this is a very quiet moment, you know. You are the | :26:41. | :26:51. | |
:26:51. | :26:52. | ||
only person at that point. So you go into that spin. That | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
could have killed you theoretically. Did you think you might die at that | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
moment? When I went into that spin it was very violent. It was way | :27:01. | :27:10. | |
more violent than we anticipated. I constantly thought about at that | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
moment it slows you down so much you cannot break the speed of sound | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
any more. That was the worry at that moment. Even at that moment | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
your big he is concern was the record as opposed to survival? | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
That's extraordinary. Yeah, you know because this is my job. Here | :27:25. | :27:30. | |
he is coming. And there you can see by the approaching - just about | :27:30. | :27:36. | |
there! Then finally you land and you know everything is over now. I | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
did not know if I broke the speed of sound at that moment because | :27:39. | :27:44. | |
there is no sign for it. It's hard to tell. People on the ground told | :27:44. | :27:47. | |
me that they heard the supersonic boom. Did you already plan to do | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
that kneel down and arm in the air, had you thought about that? | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
that's a natural reaction. This is victory, you know, after so many | :27:54. | :28:00. | |
years of preparation. When I was a little kid I got this | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
coin when I was born and it had the three astronauts on it, Collins, | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
Armstrong and Aldrin and when I was five years old I always had that | :28:08. | :28:12. | |
coin and I looked up to the moon and thought how did they do it? It | :28:12. | :28:17. | |
was inspiring for me and maybe the reason I did it. You hope now I am | :28:17. | :28:24. | |
sure that maybe kids watched your jump will now be inspired? Yeah, | :28:24. | :28:31. | |
that's a great honour, you know. Felix Baumgartner speaking there, | :28:31. | :28:36. | |
extraordinary images. Let's look at There is a chilly breeze outside | :28:36. | :28:39. | |
today but at least we are compensating with it with sunshine. | :28:39. | :28:43. | |
For many areas decent spells of sunshine but also heavy and | :28:43. | :28:48. | |
thundery showers around. Especially for southern and western areas, the | :28:48. | :28:52. | |
radar picture shows where we have seen the showers, the green colours | :28:52. | :28:55. | |
indicating torrential downpours particularly across parts of | :28:55. | :29:00. | |
Northern Ireland to the north-west of England and also filtering in to | :29:00. | :29:04. | |
the Bristol Channel. These areas are prone to showers throughout the | :29:04. | :29:07. | |
afternoon. Inland many areas are dry. Overnight the winds ease away | :29:07. | :29:10. | |
and that's going to allow temperatures to take a tumble and | :29:10. | :29:13. | |
then later in the night further showers working in from the west. | :29:13. | :29:18. | |
That's the recipe for a khaeully and -- chilly and icy start | :29:18. | :29:22. | |
particularly across the northern half of the UK. It is a little bit | :29:22. | :29:26. | |
milder further south. I don't think we are going to have icy patches. | :29:26. | :29:31. | |
But we have those showers filtering in on a brisk breeze. | :29:31. | :29:34. | |
It's looking like a pleasant morning to come across Wales with | :29:34. | :29:39. | |
spells of sunshine. We have still got that heavy rain in the north- | :29:39. | :29:42. | |
west of England. Equally across Northern Ireland, after some | :29:43. | :29:46. | |
overnight showers a chilly morning, could be slippery first thing on | :29:46. | :29:50. | |
the roads. For Scotland temperatures around about freezing, | :29:50. | :29:55. | |
below in some sheltered Glens. We could see frosty patches first | :29:55. | :30:01. | |
thing. It's looking dry and bright across much of the Midlands and | :30:01. | :30:05. | |
into East Anglia but we still have a risk of sharp showers pouring in | :30:05. | :30:08. | |
around the southern coasts of England. That's the way it looks | :30:08. | :30:15. | |
through the day. Another day of sunshine and showers. Some of the | :30:15. | :30:19. | |
showers wintry. But for many eastern areas it's a pwroeut and | :30:19. | :30:24. | |
sunny day but temperatures still on the cool side. | :30:24. | :30:29. | |
It's going to feel chilly. Chilly into Saturday evening, as well. We | :30:29. | :30:32. | |
keep the risk of showers in the far south and for western areas. If you | :30:32. | :30:38. | |
are heading to any bonfire displays instance, we could catch a shower. | :30:38. | :30:42. | |
For eastern areas, Edinburgh, Norwich, skies are looking clear | :30:42. | :30:45. | |
although we have a brisk breeze. Through Saturday night into Sunday | :30:45. | :30:49. | |
you can see this area of low pressure that continues to be be in | :30:49. | :30:53. | |
command of our weather. It's pushing further south. Sunday looks | :30:53. | :30:57. | |
like another day of sunshine and showers but we could have more | :30:57. | :31:00. | |
persistent rain working in to the south-east of England and | :31:00. | :31:05. | |
temperatures at best perhaps around about 7-11 Celsius. It's going to | :31:05. | :31:08. | |
be feeling chilly into the weekend and we are going to see that | :31:08. | :31:17. |