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The former Editors of the Sun and the News of the World are to be | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
charged with conspiracy. Andy Coulson and Rebecca Brooks are | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
accused of making unlawful payments to public officials. | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
Attacks continue on Gaza, but Israel shelves plans for a ground | :00:18. | :00:26. | |
invasion as efforts continue to try to broker a truce. | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
We'll be reporting from southern Israel, where missiles are still | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
being fired across the border from Gaza. | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
A senior trader who lost a bank �1.4 billion is found guilty of | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
fraud. The Church of England votes this | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
afternoon on whether to ordain women bishops. | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
Trimming the number of tariffs - the Government tells energy | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
companies there should be fewer deals. | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
And scientists warn that 95% of Britain's ash woodland could die | :00:51. | :00:58. | |
from the fungal disease which has spread across the North Sea. | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
On BBC London: the mayor is accused of breaking a housing promise as | :01:02. | :01:12. | |
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only 10% of homes at one of the Good afternoon, and welcome to the | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
BBC News at 1.00pm. Four former journalists at the Sun and the News | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
of the World are to be charged over alleged corrupt payments to public | :01:37. | :01:44. | |
officials. They include Andy Coulson, who went on to become | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
David Cameron's head of communications, and Rebekah Brooks, | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
News International's former Chief Executive. An employee from the | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
Ministry of Defence is also facing charges. Mr Coulson and Ms Brooks | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
are due to be tried next year over separate allegations of phone | :01:54. | :02:03. | |
hacking. Here's June Kelly. She was the most high-powered woman in the | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
newspaper business, close to successive Prime Ministers. Now | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
Rebekah Brooks is facing a fresh charge. She's accused of being part | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
of a conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office. She's | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
already due to stand trial on two other counts - phone hacking and | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, and another charge today | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
for Andy Coulson, the man who followed her into the editor's seat | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
at the News of the World, already in court over hacking and perjury | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
allegations, he's now accused of conspiring to commit misconduct in | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
public office. Once David Cameron's chief spokesman, these latest | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
charges against him go right to the top of the British establishment. | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
They involve the Royal Family. It is claimed while he was at the News | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
of the World he offered payments to public officials in exchange for | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
information including a Royal phone directory known as "the green book". | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
It has contact details for the Royal Family and members of their | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
household. Today in a statement Andy Coulson denied the new | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
allegation against him and said he would fight them in court. Accused | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
with Andy Coulson is Clive Goodman, once the world woorl's Royal editor. | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
He's already served a jail term for phone hacking. The new count | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
against Rebekah Brooks goes back to her days as editor of the Sun and | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
also involves the tabloid's long- standing chief reporter Jon Kay and | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
administrative defence employee Patina Barber. In a statement, the | :03:30. | :03:40. | |
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Since her evidence to the Leveson inquiry, there has been a focus on | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
Rebekah Brooks's friendship with David Cameron and the nature of the | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
charges against Andy Coulson mean more embarrassment for Number Ten. | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
Let's talk to June, who is here now. What happens in all of these | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
investigations? What happens in terms of the mechanics of this is | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
both Rebekah Brooks Jerry Hall and her partner Anton Du Beke and the | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
others who have been named today will have to attend a police | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
station either today or in the coming days where they'll be | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
formally charged. There will then be an appearance at magistrate's | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
court. In terms of Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks, as we were hearing | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
there, they're both facing other charges. The phone hacking trial is | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
due to get going next autumn, but because of these other charges | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
they're facing, the authorities were already trying to work out the | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
choreography of all of this. This this morning will only add to their | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
difficulties. We should say Rebekah Brooks has always denied all the | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
charges against her, as has Andy Coulson. Of course, politically, | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
this is difficult for Number Ten, and this morning it was noticeable | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
that the Prime Minister, when he was thrown a question about this, | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
didn't respond. June, thank you, June Kelly. | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
Israel says it has put plans for a ground operation in Gaza on hold as | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
talks continue in Egypt to try to secure a truce. The UN Secretary- | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
General, Ban Ki-Moon, has been in Cairo as part of diplomatic efforts | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
to stop the fighting. Ln the next hour he's expected in Jerusalem for | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
talks with the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
Overnight, there were further Israeli air strikes on Gaza while | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
Palestinian groups launched a handful of missiles into southern | :05:18. | :05:27. | |
Israel. Katya Adler is in southern Israel now. | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
Well, of course, there is much talk and speculation here in Israel as | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
well as in Gaza. I am right here on the border - about this possible | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
ceasefire. Israeli air strikes into the Gaza Strip, Gaza rockets fired | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
here into Israel. They are continuing, but with less intensity | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
than in the last few day, but getting an actual ceasefire | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
agreement - that's going to be complicated because both sides are | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
demanding guarantees. Just to give you a sense of how exposed to one | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
million Israelis feel who live close to the border, this is the | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
Israeli town of Sterot, when a siren wails warning of attacks, | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
they only have a few seconds to run for shelter as we found earlier | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
today. Of course, mean time in gauze Starks more than a hundred | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
people have been killed since the beginning of this current Israeli | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
military operation. In Gaza today, there is a sense of cautious relief. | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
International efforts to broker a ceasefire have meant fewer Israeli | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
air strikes on and around people's homes here. They're grabbing the | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
chance to claw back some of their possessions and a bit of a sense of | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
normality. The United Nations' Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon, is | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
in the region. The United States' Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton | :06:39. | :06:46. | |
is on her way. Their message is clear. Once again, Palestinians and | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
Israelis live in the fear of the next strike, and this must stop. | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
Immediate steps are needed by all to avoid further escalation | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
including a ground operation. on the border between Israel and | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
Gaza, and people on both sides are cynical about a ceasefire. They say | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
they've seen them before, and they never last long. Longer term | :07:10. | :07:16. | |
solutions are needed. In Gaza, for example, if you reduce poverty, if | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
Israel lifts its restrictions on the movement of goods and people, | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
there will be far less support for rocket attacks. Israelis too want | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
long-term guarantees. The town of Sterot is only a couple of miles | :07:30. | :07:37. | |
away from Gaza. This will not give us an answer for the reason this is | :07:37. | :07:45. | |
- this is a possibility not for - this is not for a peace. Sorry. | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
Then our conversation was interrupted by rocket fire from | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
Gaza. The missile landed just a few metres away from us. This close to | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
the border, you have less than 15 seconds to run for cover. | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
For these Israeli soldiers amassed close to Gaza, it's a waiting game | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
for now. Israel and Hamas are giving diplomacy a chance, but | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
there is a keen awareness here that the bloodshed on both sides could | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
escalate within minutes. We heard that this morning - we | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
heard this morning from the Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
who said they wanted to exhaust all diplomatic effort, but if a | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
ceasefire wasn't arounded there could be an Israeli military | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
incursion into Gaza by the end of the week. In Gaza there have been | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
I'mors this morning Hamas was about to announce a ceasefire. Instead, | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
the new mill Friday leader there said they were ready for war and | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
that it had all just started. International mediators are | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
determined to pursue this ceasefire to the good, they say, of civilians | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
on both sides of the border. Thank you for joining us. | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
There's much more information on the conflict in Gaza and Israel as | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
well as all the latest developments as they happen on the BBC News | :08:56. | :09:03. | |
website at bbc.co.uk/news. A trader who lost the Swiss bank | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
UBS �1.4 billion, has been found guilty of fraud. Kweku Adoboli, | :09:09. | :09:18. | |
who's 32, was convicted by a jury at Southwark Crown Court. They're | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
still deliberating on five other charges. Our correspondent Emma | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
Simpson is at Southwark Crown Court. What happened in court today? | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
were colossal losses. In fact, it was the largest unauthorised | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
trading incident the City of London has ever seen, and in this trial, | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
much of what Kweku Adoboli did was never in dispute. Kweku Adoboli | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
this 32-year-old trader, racked up enormous one-way bets - �1.4 | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
billion worth of losses. He booked fake bets to hide the real risks | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
that he was taking. What this jury had to decide was whether he was | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
dishonest in doing so. In his defence throughout the trial, he | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
portrayed himself as a guilty - a guilty person that it was the bank | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
that was - a not guilty person, that it was the bank that was | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
encouraging him to take risks that management knew what he was up to, | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
that his other traders on the desk knew what he was up to. As for the | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
prosecution, they portrayed him as a reckless, out-of-control banker | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
who wanted to improve his profits, his status and his bonus, and today | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
this morning he was found guilty on two counts of fraud, but not guilty | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
on four counts of false accounting, making this the biggest case of | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
fraud in British history. He'll be sentenced later this afternoon. | :10:40. | :10:50. | |
Emma, thank you, Emma Simpson. 20 years ago, the Church of England | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
voted to ordain women priests. Today, it'll decide whether to go | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
one step further and allow women to become bishops. The plans have to | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
be approved by all three sections of the Church's parliament, the | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
General Synod. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, and his | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
predecessor, Rowan Williams, both support the move. But lay | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
representatives are divided. Emily Buchanan reports. | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
After decades of discussion, it's crunch time for members of the | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
Church of England's Parliament, the General Synod. Good morning. | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, and his successor, Justin | :11:16. | :11:24. | |
Welby, are pinning their hopes on a yes vote to women bishops, so are | :11:24. | :11:30. | |
most of the synod members. It means a tremendous lot. I do want to be | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
still alive when we have women bishops, and I have been fighting | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
this thing for 45 years. It's an important issue. I hope it gives us | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
the space to move on and deal with things that are really important, | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
issues like what's happening in Gaza and world poverty. But there | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
is a minority of evangelicals and Anglo Catholics who are strongly | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
opposed. They include women. Actually, it's not a matter of | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
opinion or what somebody thinks women can or cannot do. It's | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
actually about obedience to your understanding of what the church | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
teaches, what's important about the sacraments and what holy scripture | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
tells us. In 2010 for the first time more women than men were | :12:13. | :12:20. | |
aDaned, 290 against 273. Nearly a third of all priests are women, | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
almost a thousand working alongside just over 8,000 male priests. Many | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
argue those women have a right to be bishops one day. It would be | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
devastating blow to the morale of many, not the least our female | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
clergy. It would be a major deterrent to continuing to attract | :12:38. | :12:45. | |
into the ordained ministry able women and many able men. But others | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
don't trust the safeguards in the code of practise. The code of | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
practise cannot enshrine theological conviction. If this | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
legislation is not clear, then what hope can there be that a code of | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
practise will ever work? Here, it would seem we have reached an | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
impasse. The atmosphere in Church House is electric. At stake, the | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
future role of women in the Church of England. Those in favour of | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
women bishops say the current compromise is workable and must be | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
decided on today. Those against want to go back to the drawing | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
board. Voting is later this afternoon, a two-thirds majority is | :13:23. | :13:32. | |
needed in all houses. The result amongst the laity will be close. | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
The BBC News Channel is going to cover that vote live expected to | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
happen sometime after 5.30pm. In the last few minutes the Foreign | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
Secretary William Hague has officially recognised the new | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
Syrian opposition coalition as the sole representative of the Syrian | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
people. Our diplomatic correspondent has joined us. What | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
does this mean? It amounts to a considerable endorsement of this | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
newly formed opposition coalition after months when Britain and many | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
other countries, frankly, were very wary and suspicious of a deeply | :14:04. | :14:10. | |
divided opposition which appeared felt they couldn't trust. This is | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
an investment of trust in the new opposition coalition. William Hague | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
said it amounted in a sense to major breakthrough, the formation | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
of the coalition, and he said that they should now be regarded | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
therefore as the sole legitimate representative of the Syrian people. | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
What does that mean in practise? They'll be invited to send an | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
official political representative to London who won't be an | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
ambassador. He won't be able to use the embassy or have diplomatic | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
status, he or she, but nevertheless will have an "in" to the Government. | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
And William Hague announced today that the opposition would get | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
considerably more funds and practical and political help in | :14:43. | :14:50. | |
their fight against President Assad. James, thank you. | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
Energy companies will be forced to reduce the number of tariffs they | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
offer under plans to be announced by the Government later today. The | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
Energy Secretary Ed Davey is expected to say that firms can only | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
offer a certain number of deals and that they should also switch | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
customers to the cheapest suitable product. Some consumer groups, | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
though, are warning that fewer tariffs might mean some of the | :15:07. | :15:17. | |
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cheapest disappear. Here's our With energy prices moving higher, | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
it is important to be on the right deal and last month the Prime | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
Minister said he was going to make that easier for everyone. We will | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
be legislating so that energy companies have to give the lowest | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
tariff to their customers. Now we know how we will be done - there | :15:36. | :15:42. | |
will be a simple choice from a supplier of four tariffs for each | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
field, including a standard variable and fixed rate option, and | :15:46. | :15:52. | |
people will be moved away from so- called dead on competitive deals. | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
Ms people don't switch between suppliers, they just want to see | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
the lights on and the heating working, and that is why to project | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
the majority of customers, putting them on the cheapest tariff | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
available is good news. But the government has got a long way to go | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
to convince customers this is a properly competitive market. | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
plans mirror those outlined by the industry regulator last month but | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
they are an admission that market forces alone have failed to make | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
sure the big energy suppliers deliver the best deals for | :16:24. | :16:32. | |
consumers. The consumer wants to have a bill which is as cheap as | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
possible, and they want to be able to see what they can get as an | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
alternative, and they want to be able to switch. The industry is | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
entirely committed to that. Labour say the government needs to go | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
further, reforming the wholesale market, revamping regulation, and | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
today the Energy Secretary insisted the plans would give consumers a | :16:53. | :16:59. | |
better deal. We can try to put a cushion between those high global | :16:59. | :17:06. | |
gas prices and the bills people pay, firstly by these types of methods, | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
through competition and switching, but also through energy-efficiency. | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
Whether this will deliver cheaper bills is far from clear, but it | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
should at least mean millions of households are not paying over the | :17:18. | :17:26. | |
odds. Our top stories this lunchtime. The | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
former editors of the Sun and the News of the World are to be charged | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
with conspiring to make unlawful payments to public officials. | :17:35. | :17:45. | |
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Coming on - how even chimpanzees Europe's leading expert on the | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
disease that has hit ash trees has warned that it is 95% of British | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
woodland would eventually fall victim to the fungal infection. | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
Scientists in Denmark say there is no known way to stop the spread, | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
but they say the few remaining ash trees which show natural immunity | :18:22. | :18:29. | |
could hold the key to replacing those which will be lost. | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
It is an environmentally disaster, and perhaps a nightmare vision of | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
the future for our Rome woodlands. In Denmark at least 95% of ash | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
trees have become infected with the Chalara fraxinea fungus. Those that | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
are not dead are slowly dying. There is no known way of saving our | :18:48. | :18:56. | |
own trees from the same fate. Already, foresters here are losing | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
valuable timber. The to is a very big problem, I call it a disaster. | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
I am losing a lot of trees and a lot of money. In this forest, it is | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
about �1 million. Here you can get a real sense of the devastating | :19:11. | :19:17. | |
impact which this disease has. Just short time ago this whole area was | :19:17. | :19:24. | |
covered with hundreds of mature ash trees 30 metres high. Now because | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
of the disease they have been chopped down and removed. Amid the | :19:29. | :19:36. | |
despair stands hope. Very few ash trees, about 2%, seemed to be | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
naturally resistant to the killer fungus so they are busy collecting | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
seeds hoping their offspring will also be immune. For Denmark and | :19:45. | :19:54. | |
Britain, this could be the long- term answer. These trees, we call | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
them the hope for the future because a small fraction of trees | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
show no symptoms of the disease and these could be the future for ash | :20:03. | :20:10. | |
trees. It at the University of Copenhagen, the search is on for | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
super trees. The saplings are deliberately infected with the | :20:16. | :20:24. | |
fungus. These trees could replace the millions lost. | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
In the last hour, the computer giant Hewlett-Packard says it has | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
made a loss of more than �5 billion on the value of a British company | :20:32. | :20:41. | |
it bought last year following what it calls serious accounting in | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
proprieties. What can you tell us about this? It is on the face of it | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
a very shocking story. Autonomy was perceived to be one of the great | :20:51. | :20:58. | |
software computer success stories of the UK. It was bought by eight p, | :20:58. | :21:05. | |
the American computer giant, last year for �7 billion. Now today AHP | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
is saying that it is writing down the value of the company by more | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
than �5 billion, in other words saying it overpaid by �5 billion, | :21:14. | :21:21. | |
but the most astonishing aspect of this is that it says �3 billion of | :21:22. | :21:30. | |
those losses relate to what it calls him proprieties and the | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
overstatement by the previous management of the value of the | :21:33. | :21:41. | |
company. This is in theory extremely serious so HP is taking | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
the case to the Serious Fraud Office in the UK and to America's | :21:46. | :21:52. | |
Securities and Investments regulator, and it says that it | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
wants this investigated from the point of view of possible criminal | :21:55. | :22:03. | |
and civil wrongdoing. Thank you. The Office of Fair Trading is | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
investigating several pay-day lending firms which offer short- | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
term high-interest loans following a review of the sector which | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
brought about concerns over aggressive debt collection | :22:13. | :22:20. | |
practices. Pay-day lenders have taken over the | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
high street, pushing short-term high-interest loans, often with few | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
questions asked, and with Christmas coming they are expecting a rush. | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
More than a million a year it is using them, one of them is Megan | :22:33. | :22:39. | |
who has a job as an airline cabin crew, but carrying �7,000 in pay | :22:39. | :22:45. | |
day debt from eight different lenders. When she was 19, two years | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
ago, she got hooked on loans that were granted within the hour. If | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
they had checked her record, they would have seen she was failing to | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
pay bills and now she has to faltered. The stress is quite hard | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
of opening the letters and worrying constantly. Sometimes I would go to | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
sleep but think I have got to pay this one, and borrow money to pay | :23:07. | :23:13. | |
that one. I would lay awake at night. Be Office of Fair Trading is | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
investing eating several firms using aggressive tactics and it is | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
warning them to check customers' more carefully because around a | :23:19. | :23:26. | |
third of them can't pay back the money on time. We expect lenders to | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
behave responsibly, lending responsibly, so I think it is | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
crucial that they carry out sufficiently rigorous test of | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
affordability. Calls it helped to the charity National Debt Line have | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
tripled in the last two years from people trapped with interest rates | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
which can run to thousands of percent a year. We introduced a | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
code of practice in the summer which takes effect next week, were | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
there are proper affordability checks. We don't want to lend to | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
somebody who can't pay back. Office of Fair Trading is concerned | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
to many people are taking out pay- day loans which they can't afford | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
to pay back because the lenders are failing to make the most basic | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
checks and that is the reason for the clampdown. It doesn't yet have | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
the power to close them down instantly so it is relying on | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
warnings to restrain them as some families become desperate for cash | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
this Christmas. The jockey Frankie Dettori is | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
facing a horse racing inquiry in Paris today after failing a drugs | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
test whilst riding in France in September. The three-times champion | :24:32. | :24:38. | |
jockey could get a worldwide ban of seven months if the is found to | :24:38. | :24:48. | |
:24:48. | :24:49. | ||
have breached the rules. He is racing's ultimate showman. | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
Frankie Dettori, bubbly, charismatic and successful, but | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
today he faced the toughest battle of his career - a hearing at these | :24:56. | :25:02. | |
headquarters in Paris. At stake his reputation and future. In September | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
he competed at Longchamp racecourse a few miles from here. He didn't | :25:06. | :25:13. | |
win any of his former Crone races, but whilst there he tested positive | :25:13. | :25:23. | |
:25:23. | :25:25. | ||
for a banned substance. Ever since he won all seven races at Ascot in | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
1996, he has been sports biggest celebrity, from it even captain on | :25:30. | :25:37. | |
this TV show to a touch bearer at the Olympics. Did he was banned how | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
racing would miss him. He has also run restaurants, his name is on | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
products, in magazines, he is on TV shows. No other jockey in the | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
country is doing that and that is why he is so important to racing. | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
It has been a tough year for Frankie Dettori, splitting with | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
Sheikh Mohammed, the man who provided so many of his winners. | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
The successes have become sparser and now he could face a lengthy | :26:05. | :26:12. | |
suspension for racing's brightest star, these are dark times. | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
David Beckham is leaving LA Galaxy next month after six years at the | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
club. He said he wanted to experience one last challenge | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
before the end of his career. There is speculation he plans to move to | :26:25. | :26:32. | |
Australia's A-League. The study of great apes has found | :26:32. | :26:38. | |
evidence that like many humans they may suffer a mid-life crisis. The | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
study of chimpanzees and orangutans discovered that their sense of | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
well-being was highest in youth and old age but it dipped in the middle. | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
The authors say it suggests evolutionary and biological factors | :26:51. | :26:57. | |
may play a part in the mid- life dip. | :26:57. | :27:03. | |
In humans, the phenomenon of mid- life crisis is well known. Men | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
might get themselves a new sports car, women might go for a makeover, | :27:08. | :27:15. | |
but no one really knows what triggers this change of behaviour. | :27:15. | :27:22. | |
Now new research shows that apes undergo the same thing. Hundreds of | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
zoo keepers were surveyed about the well-being of animals in their care. | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
The results showed that the eight who were halfway through their | :27:31. | :27:36. | |
lives were the least happy. The observation is important because it | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
shows that mid-life crisis might have evolved and so might even have | :27:40. | :27:45. | |
a positive biological role. If you are dissatisfied with life, you are | :27:45. | :27:51. | |
going to want to do something about it, and at that point in mid-life, | :27:51. | :27:55. | |
you might be at the top of your game in terms of the resources you | :27:55. | :27:59. | |
have, in terms of your status, and that may be a really good time to | :27:59. | :28:05. | |
push yourself and kind of strike out and be a bit older than you | :28:05. | :28:13. | |
normally would be. In the natural world, the mid-life crisis might | :28:13. | :28:16. | |
motivate apes to make improvements to their lives, the question is | :28:16. | :28:21. | |
whether the same might be true in humans. | :28:21. | :28:28. | |
Now let's have a look at the We have got more heavy rain to come | :28:28. | :28:32. | |
this weekend, but today we have found the number of flood warnings | :28:32. | :28:36. | |
in Scotland has been falling, but the river levels in the south-west | :28:37. | :28:44. | |
of England have been rising. Let me show you what has been happening | :28:44. | :28:49. | |
with the rain so far - it has been wettest in the south-west of the UK. | :28:49. | :28:54. | |
Elsewhere, the rain has been hit and miss. The rain is moving away | :28:54. | :28:58. | |
more quickly, heading up towards the north-east, much of Scotland | :28:59. | :29:03. | |
becoming drier later this afternoon. North Wales may see some sunshine, | :29:04. | :29:08. | |
but for the bulk of England and Wales a lot of cloud and some | :29:08. | :29:12. | |
outbreaks of rain. Gradually overnight the wind will ease, but | :29:12. | :29:16. | |
we will be stuck with this rain turning heavier and more persistent. | :29:16. | :29:23. | |
Clearer skies though, and wind turning milder for England and | :29:23. | :29:27. | |
Scotland. Temperatures could get down to four degrees early on | :29:27. | :29:32. | |
Wednesday morning. Heading into the rush-hour, apart from a few showers | :29:32. | :29:36. | |
brushing the north-west of the UK, most of Scotland and Northern | :29:36. | :29:40. | |
Ireland should start with sunshine. For England and Wales, a cloudy | :29:40. | :29:44. | |
start to Wednesday with some showers around the western side of | :29:44. | :29:52. | |
Wales, but for most of Wales, and possibly the far south-west, it | :29:52. | :29:57. | |
will be dry. Further east it is wet with a lot of water on the roads. | :29:58. | :30:02. | |
This rain could be steady and heavy, and not moving away quickly. | :30:02. | :30:08. | |
Eastern parts having a wet morning, and even to the east of the | :30:08. | :30:11. | |
meridians it stays wet. It is much better further west and north, that | :30:11. | :30:16. | |
is where we will see some sunshine. The wind will not be a strong | :30:16. | :30:19. | |
tomorrow and temperatures should be reasonable but we are not finished | :30:19. | :30:23. | |
with the rain just yet - we will all be getting some later in the | :30:23. | :30:32. | |
week, driven on by a strong to gale force winds for some time. This win | :30:32. | :30:37. | |
will be driving the rain into England and Wales. The south-east | :30:37. | :30:42. | |
and East Anglia probably staying dry through the day. Thursday night | :30:42. | :30:47. | |
and into Friday, the rain band still works East words. As the wind | :30:47. | :30:54. | |
drops on Friday, the rain grinds to were hauled over England and Wales. | :30:54. | :30:59. | |
Elsewhere, a brighter day with some sunshine and showers. This rain can | :30:59. | :31:05. | |
lead to some disruption as the day goes on. Now, a reminder of the top | :31:05. | :31:09. |