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Hundreds of homes are affected as bad weather continues to batter | :00:08. | :00:18. | |
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Britain. Roads are still impassable across the south-west of England. | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
Emergency services worked round the clock to rescue those trapped. In | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
North Yorkshire, fire trucks are called to a hospital to save the | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
operating theatre from being flooded. Insurance companies are | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
warning that thousands of homes affected this year could be left | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
without cover. Budget cuts and tax rises could continue until 2018 - | :00:34. | :00:41. | |
according to an independent think- tank. | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
Here in Jordan this new science project is trying something | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
extraordinary, bringing together researchers from countries that are | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
openly hostile to each other, under one roof you have Iranians and | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
Israelis. And, England level the Test series | :00:58. | :01:05. | |
against India - winning by ten wickets in Mumbai. | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
Later on BBC London: The FA will investigate alleged | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
anti-Semitic abuse at Tottenham Hotspur during their match with | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
West Ham. A man is arrested over the brutal rape of an 11-year-old | :01:19. | :01:29. | |
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Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at 1.00pm. Many parts of | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
Britain are braced for further flooding as heavy rain continues to | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
fall on ground that's already saturated. The Environment Agency | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
says the north-east of England and North Wales are at greatest risk | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
today. More than 200 flood warnings and nearly 300 flood alerts are | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
currently in place in England and Wales. We have the latest from | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
Exeter in the south-west of England and Worcester in the Midlands, | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
which were particularly badly hit over the weekend. And we're in | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
Llanberis in Snowdonia, to see how people are coping there. But first, | :02:09. | :02:18. | |
from Northallerton in North Yorkshire, Danny Savage reports. | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
Yet again, river levels in Yorkshire and north-east England | :02:20. | :02:21. | |
are reaching critical levels. Rainfall on saturated land is | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
running straight off into water courses and the number of flood | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
alerts is rising. Thousands of acres of farmland are disappearing | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
under water. These were conditions this morning in the Vale of York | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
near Thirsk. Roads are becoming difficult to negotiate. It's a | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
risky business getting through in ordinary cars. | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
In Northallerton a major operation is under way to try and stop the | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
hospital in the town being flooded. A stream which runs under the | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
buildings here is threatening to seep into the operating theatres. | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
The situation here is getting worse by the minute. You can see senior | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
firefighters having a meeting here now to discuss what they're going | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
to do to try and improve the plan they're working on. They're already | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
pumping thousands and thousands of gallons of water out at the moment. | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
But they now need to get another high volume pump in because the | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
situation is getting so bad. Firefighters say they must give | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
this job priority, rather than rescuing cars stranded in water. | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
have been busy over this weekend, getting people out of flood water, | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
people are still driving into it. I would say to people - it's the case | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
that we are talking to local people this morning that this particular | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
area, this is unprecedented for the last 20 years. Elsewhere in | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
Northallerton town centre, businesses are having to do their | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
best to hold back the ever rising water. As the Environment Agency | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
monitors the situation. Up here as you can see, we have rain falling | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
at the moment on to wet wet ground and we have nowhere to store that | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
rain so it's going into water courses and tsdz come -- it's | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
coming down the rivers and we can see the result of that, which is | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
the water levels are higher than normal. | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
It's not just in the countryside where the road conditions are | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
difficult. Let's talk to Danny now in the | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
hospital grounds. What's the situation there at the moment? | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
Within the last few minutes the authorities here have said they've | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
cancelled all surgery for today, that's not really surprising | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
because of all this pumping that's been going on here, moving the | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
water out of this beck that was flowing under the building, it was | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
threatening to flood the operating theatres here. That water was | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
running into the town and flooding roads surrounding the hospital, so | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
a new phase of this plan is coming in. What the firefighters have been | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
doing is laying a new line of hosing all the way along here and | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
they're trying to pump the water out in a different direction to | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
stop it flooding parts of the town centre. The rain is still falling. | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
It's going to be a problem here, I suspect, for several hours. But | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
it's a big job here for the the fire and rescuers as they try and | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
keep the water out of the hospital. It's an operation that's working at | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
the moment but they'll have to stay at it for quite a while longer if | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
they're going to continue to succeed in the long run because the | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
rain is still falling and river levels are still rising and many | :05:19. | :05:28. | |
more problems are cropping up all the time. Thank you. | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
The Association of British Insurers says people with homes at risk of | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
flooding could find it impossible to get cover next year. It says | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
that's because talks between the industry and the Government over a | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
special fund for the riskiest homes have reached crisis point. Let's | :05:40. | :05:47. | |
cross to Kennford, near Exeter, and Jon Kay. | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
Insurance is very much on people's minds as they gather and work out | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
what they're going to do next. The river here burst its banks the | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
early hours of yesterday morning. It flooded all these cottages here. | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
A vivid example of how high it got. Look at that front door, it came | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
almost up to the letterbox and it's black because it had oil in it, | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
they're trying to work out why that is. A mess here, but there is sa | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
mess of a different kind, at top level a row going on between | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
Government and insurance companies about who pays for this kind of | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
thing into the future. That's the level of the water which | :06:23. | :06:30. | |
came in. A line running through the ground floor ever this cottage -- | :06:30. | :06:38. | |
of this cottage. Everything was floating around. This is my study. | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
The water might have drained away, but repairing the damage will take | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
much, much longer. That's my little job today, trying to wash that. | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
They hope their insurance will cover all the damage this time. But | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
it's the future that concerns them. It's a worry, isn't it? It is a | :06:57. | :07:06. | |
worry. You know, one does need insurance. But I can understand | :07:06. | :07:12. | |
them being tricky about it, because they're going to have big pay outs. | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
The scale of those payouts is clear to see in this village and in many | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
more. Not just homes to be repaired, but personal possessions to be | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
replaced and vehicles, too. These new pictures from a BBC viewer show | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
a motorist being rescued from his flooded car in Somerset. | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
The insurance industry and the Government have been trying to | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
strike a deal for sometime, to make sure that people in flood-hit areas | :07:40. | :07:46. | |
can get affordable insurance in future. People like Wendy. You have | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
lost a lot here. Everything downstairs, kitchen and lounge is | :07:50. | :07:56. | |
all gone. It's got to be replaced. The insurance companies claim they | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
have come up with a solution and they say if the Government doesn't | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
accept it soon, 200,000 homes will be left without cover when the | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
current deal runs out next summer. There is no other proposition on | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
the table which we think is workable or achievable and we very | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
much hope that the Government will continue to discuss our proposal, | :08:17. | :08:25. | |
which is very carefully worked out. Visiting definite con-- Devon, the | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
Environment Secretary. He insists he wants a deal with the insurance | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
industry but he says it must be fair for policy-holders and for the | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
wider public. We would like to see an arrangement which is affordable, | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
as comprehensive as possible and does not put any great burden on | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
the taxpayer. But in Kennford the priority is dealing with this flood | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
and hoping they won't need to go through this ever again. | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
Another cottage here, another sofa waiting to be picked up. This | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
gentleman is chucking away the contents of his freezer, as well. | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
That will be part of another insurance claim. The Government | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
clearly frustrated by the fact that the insurance companies have come | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
out and argued about this in public today. The Government say they | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
don't want to do it in public but clearly both sides urgently need to | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
come up with some kind of agreement and people here are definitely | :09:20. | :09:30. | |
urgently wanting to hear what that Thank you. | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
While hundreds of homes and business might have suffered the | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
misery of being flooded, others have escaped damage thanks to | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
defences built because they'd been hit by floods in the past. Our | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
correspondent Jeremy Cooke joins us now from Worcester. | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
Well it's not as though there aren't problems here, look at the | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
river, it has broken its banks. If you look beyond the river you can | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
see the racecourse which lies beyond, well under water now. | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
That's the bad news here. There's good news, too. If you look down | :09:57. | :10:03. | |
here you can see the flood defences, these earth banks. They are at the | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
moment successfully holding back the flood water. It means that many | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
houses which previously would have been flooded, are this lunchtime, | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
high and dry. The rain has stopped, but the | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
waters are still rising. Days of torrential downpours, many miles up | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
stream mean communities like Worcester are still on high alert. | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
It looks like there's water everywhere. But, in fact, new | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
tphrod defences are -- flood defences are doing their job. The | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
barriers are holding back most of the floods. It is a considerable | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
improvement and many smaller communities have benefited from | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
flood defences schemes, I have been happy to attend all the openings of | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
the flood schemes and the residents, the relief on their faces that | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
they're not going to be flooded is tremendous. | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
It was a very different story back in 2007. Then, Worcester's previous | :11:00. | :11:06. | |
flood defences failed, with sodden, miserable results. The cost of the | :11:06. | :11:12. | |
new system has been high. But for many it is money well spent. | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
There's a few places it will still pop up but anything is worth save | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
ago bit of misery for people, it's worth doing. It has improved | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
although it's not solved the problem. It's not half as bad as it | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
used to be. It's well spent. But, of course, any flood defence is | :11:28. | :11:34. | |
only as good as its weakst link. In In -- in Worcestershire this | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
weekend the pumps failed to switch on. The The project failed. 30 | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
homes were evacuated as the waters rose. The Government says new flood | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
defences have saved tens of thousands of homes from flooding. | :11:47. | :11:54. | |
That's not much comfort here. Perhaps some comfort here is we | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
don't have heavy rain. We have drizzle at the moment. That's | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
really not the point, though, because the issue is what's | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
happening further up stream and there's such heavy rain still | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
falling that communities like this downstream are waiting for the high | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
water to come. It could take hours, perhaps even days for to us find | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
out how bad the situation is. But as I was saying, so far, the flood | :12:16. | :12:23. | |
defences here in Worcester, are holding firm. | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
There is going to be a full weather forecast at the end of the | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
programme. There is a live page on the BBC News website, two. You can | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
also catch up with the latest in your area by tuning in to local | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
radio. The current squeeze on public | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
spending may have to continue for a least another five years, if the | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
economy doesn't pick up. According to the independent Institute for | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
Fiscal Studies, the Government may need to find an extra �11 billion | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
through tax rises or spending cuts. Our chief economics correspondent | :12:53. | :13:00. | |
Hugh Pym is with me. What else did the IFS say? Well | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
they're looking to the Autumn Statement and whether the | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
Chancellor - growth has not turned out as expected and tax revenues | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
haven't been growing as rapidly as he hoped. It says the Chancellor, | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
they think, is going to have to borrow more this financial year | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
than his target, a figure of around about �13 billion in terms of an | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
overshoot on what he had expected. In other words, a higher deficit | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
than the previous year. Longer ahead, they say the austerity | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
programme might have to run longer than everyone thought. At the time | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
of the election when the coalition took office after that, they were | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
talking about five years of a public spending squeeze. Now the | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
IFS say if things don't work out it could be an eight-year squeeze on | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
public spending, looking further into the future. Here's the IFS | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
view in more detail. Over the last few months we have | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
seen weakening of - the outlook for the economy and the UK's public | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
finances. If some of this reflects a permanent problem rather than a | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
temporary problem, the Chancellor may have to announce further fiscal | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
austerity in the Autumn Statement, if he is to stay on course to meet | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
his fiscal mandate that revenues should be at least sufficient to | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
cover spending by the end of the forecast horizon. What has the | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
Government's reaction been? Treasury is saying we need to wait | :14:24. | :14:34. | |
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for the office of the -- Office of Budget Responsibility comes out. | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
Labour says it's because of Government's decision recovery has | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
been choked off and that's why it's missing targets. | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
The new governor of the Bank of England is going to be named this | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
afternoon. He is going to take over to Sir Mervyn King. Let's speak to | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
our business editor. Well, we are going to get the announcement at | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
3.30pm this afternoon. The interviews of the four shortlisted | :15:01. | :15:07. | |
candidates went went on in the past few days. The widespread | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
expectation is that the new governor will be Paul Tucker, the | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
current deputy but I don't think one can be 100% of that. The other | :15:16. | :15:22. | |
field of candidates, including Lord Burns, Adair Turner, and Sir John | :15:22. | :15:28. | |
Vickers very strong, many people think Sir John Vickers is a good | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
outset bet. The new governor of the Bank of England will be the most | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
important figure in terms of the stewardship of the British economy. | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
With a possible exception of the Chancellor. This is the chap who | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
will have a big influence on the level of interest rates, mortgage | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
rates and the rest that we all pay, and he is getting huge new powers | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
over the supervision and regulation of banks and finance to try and | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
avoid a repetition of the kind of busts we saw in 2008, which is | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
still haunting us and still damaging us. An incredibly | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
important appointment and the other thing that's changed is that the | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
new Governor of the Bank of England will have a fixed term of eight | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
years. So the new incumbent terribly important and will go | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
through this parliament, the next parliament, into the one after next. | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
It's hard to overstate the significance of this announcement | :16:21. | :16:31. | |
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Thank you very much, Robert Peston. Now the top story: Heavy rain moves | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
north. Hundreds of flood warnings and alert are in force. Coming up: | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
# Get out of my cloud. # It is only rock and roll, but they still seem | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
to like it. 50 years of the Rolling Stones. Later on BBC London: The | :16:51. | :16:57. | |
tens of millions of pounds of legal aid that could be given to | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
superrich criminals due to a legal loophole. | :16:59. | :17:08. | |
That and more including a full weather forecast. | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
It may seem like news from the Middle East is nearly always bad, | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
today, though, good news. Arab and Israeli scientists have come | :17:17. | :17:23. | |
together to build a multi-million pound scientific installation. It | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
is a particle accelerator, called sis ses, similar to that in | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
Switzerland. It is hoped that it will break down barriers between | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
the often hostile neighbours. In the hills of Jordan this new | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
research centre is the scene for a bold venture. | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
Here you can see two openings... project to bring together | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
scientists from across the Middle East. This is a highly | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
sophisticated device that can transform the work of researchers | :17:53. | :17:59. | |
in the region. It is why so many are behind it. This installation | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
gives researchers the chance to see in incredible detail, objects like | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
viruses and molecules, leading to a whole host of benefits, including | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
new medical treatments. It is the first of its kind in the Middle | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
East and attracting support from countries normally openly hostile | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
to each other. The project, known as Sesame, is backed by Arab | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
countries, the Palestinians, Iran and, surprisingly, Israel as well. | :18:26. | :18:33. | |
It was always my dream to show that Arabs and Israelis can work | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
together for the benefit of humanity and for the benefit of | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
their own people. Both sides having an interest in that. | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
For me, Sesame, in a way, it is part of that dream. | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
As tensions rise in the region, the researchers say that what matters | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
is the science that they can do, not the politician dividing their | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
governments. What we hope is that science will | :18:59. | :19:06. | |
open the doors to other or further understanding concerning other | :19:06. | :19:12. | |
issues, OK? This is what we hope. We begin with science, somehow we | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
will open the doors that are closed for years or centuries. | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
Much of the equipment installed is second-hand, from Germany and | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
Britain. About enough money has been raised for the next phase of | :19:26. | :19:32. | |
construction. Amazingly, despite Gaza, the project is still going | :19:32. | :19:40. | |
ahead. You can find more about that | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
project tonight on BBC Radio 4 at 8.00pm and there is coverage on the | :19:44. | :19:54. | |
:19:54. | :19:54. | ||
BBC website at: The Swiss bank, UBS has been fined | :19:54. | :20:00. | |
nearly �30 million for failing to stop one of its traders losing more | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
than �1 billion in unauthorised trieding. Kweku Adoboli was jailed | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
for seven years. The Financial Services Authority said they had | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
not taken care to organise its affairs responsibly. | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
A man has been accused of the rape of an 11-year-old girl. The 26- | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
year-old is being held in Edmonton in north London. The incident | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
happened on Friday. The UK Independence Party should be | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
offered a deal with the conservative countries, according | :20:31. | :20:39. | |
to the Tories campaign chief. But the idea from the MP, Michael | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
Fabricant has been given short shrift by UKIP's leader, Nigel | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
Farage. He said no deals with the Tories, that it was war. We have | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
more. Should David Cameron form a pact | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
with UKIP's leader, Nigel Farage, to help the Conservatives in key | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
seats at the next election? That is the suggestion from a Vice-Chairman | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
of his party. This is not a coalition, don't | :21:04. | :21:11. | |
forget. I am talking about a electoral tact that says if UKIP | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
don't stand against us at the next election we have a firm | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
understanding to have an inout referendum after that election. | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
The Prime Minister making a statement after the EU summit, and | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
playing down the idea of a pact. Number Ten said, Michael Fabricant, | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
does not speak for the party on the issue. A source said that David | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
Cameron does not believe that all UKIP members are racist. UKIP did | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
well in the Corby by-election, and Michael Fabricant claims that the | :21:40. | :21:47. | |
party cost the Conservatives about 20 to 40 seats at the last election. | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
UKIP's leader is in no mood mood to do a deal. | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
The Michael Fabricant plan is to buy off Nigel. It is not going to | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
happen. UKIP is a different party. We are not about to be bought off | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
by anybody. So, the prospect of the pact | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
happening looks remote. Especially as the Conservatives are currently | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
in a coalition with the Liberal Democrats. | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
But the suggestion does show how worried some Conservatives are | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
about the threat from UKIP. It adds to the pressure on the Prime | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
Minister to promise a referendum on Europe. | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, who is in India, offered unexpected | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
support for the Prime Minister, making it plain he does not want an | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
in-out referendum on Europe soon it is a difficult issue for David | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
Cameron, but he can't expect much help from Nigel Farage. | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
Rotherham Borough Council say it is will be as open and as transparent | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
as possible with an inquiry ordered by the Education Secretary, Michael | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
Gove. It will look into why three foster children were removed from a | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
couple because of their mip with the UK Independence Party. | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
-- membership. What have the council said this | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
morning? Well, the council leader demanded a report this morning at | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
9.00am to get to the bottom of what happened here in Rotherham. He got | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
that report today. He spent about four hours considering it, but when | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
Roger Stone left the building he did not make comments. That came in | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
the form of a full statement. In it he repeated the council's position, | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
that said that being a member of UKIP should not prevent anyone from | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
becoming a foster parent. He said that the council will work with the | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
Department for Education as it investigates what happened here. | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
Importantly, he said that the children were in safe and wereing - | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
- were being provided with good care. | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
What happens next? Well, from reading this statement it is clear | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
that at the moment, Rotherham Council are not holding anyone | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
responsible for what happened here. For what happened to the three | :23:57. | :24:04. | |
children it sees that the accountability is to go to the | :24:04. | :24:06. | |
Education Secretary, Michael Gove. His department is investigating | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
what happened and why the three children were removed At the | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
weekend he said that the decision to take them away was the wrong | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
decision, made for the wrong reasons. I have a chat with someone | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
representing the foster parents at the centre of. This they said that | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
after the statement, it does not tell the full story as to what | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
happened here. Also they said that it did not include one word, an | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
apology. Thank you very much. | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
The Israeli Defence Minister, Ehud Barak has announced he is leaving | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
politics weeks before the country's general elections. He says he will | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
step down after a new government is formed in January, in order to | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
spend more time with his family. Parties which are drawn to | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
independence for the Spanish region of Catalonia have won a majority | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
there. The leader of the biggest party is to consultant the people | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
on independence in the next four years. The Spanish government is | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
opposed to a referendum which it believes would be unconcity | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
tuitional. England's cricketers have completed | :25:16. | :25:22. | |
a ten-wicket victory in a second Test Match against India. It took | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
Alastair Cook and Nick Compton less than an hour-and-a-half to rattle | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
off the 57 runs they needed for victory. | :25:29. | :25:37. | |
It is tough enough for India to be outdone, but shocking to be outspun. | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
England polished off India's second innings. The conditions prepared to | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
suit the Indian spin bowlers, played noolt hand of England. | :25:47. | :25:53. | |
Graeme Swann and the persevering Monty Panesar. Then the ball was | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
smashed and Matt Prior caught it. Monty Panesar had his sixth wicket | :25:57. | :26:03. | |
of the innings. India were 142 all out. | :26:03. | :26:10. | |
Gautam Gambhir last to go. He did not like the lbw decision. Of the | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
20 Indian wickets to fall, 19 were taken by England. They have beaten | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
India at their own game in a way that few sides have ever managed. | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
Now England have to score 57. It should have been easy, actually it | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
was. Earlier this year, England were bowled out for 72 by Pakistan, | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
losing a match it seemed certain that they would win. This time, a | :26:34. | :26:40. | |
man in just his second Test Match that seized the initiative, Nick | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
Compton. Any victory in India is memorable, but to win | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
overwhelmingly is like discovering a magic formula. There are two more | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
Tests for Alastair Cook's England, to use it again. He can hardly wait. | :26:54. | :27:00. | |
Now, to four men for whom the idea of retirement at 65 just does not | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
apply. The Rolling Stones were the -- with a combined age of 273 have | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
celebrated their 50th anniversary in the rock business with a concert | :27:10. | :27:18. | |
in front of 20,000 fans from London. As Mick Jagger pointed out last | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
night it had taken the Rolling Stones 50 years to get from | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
Dartford to Greenwich, a distance of ten miles. The fans had | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
travelled further. I came from Australia, Midnight | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
Rambler was the best. The Rolling Stones opened with the | :27:35. | :27:42. | |
second ever singing from 1963. The two-and-a-half hour 23-song set | :27:42. | :27:48. | |
spanned the whole career. # I said, hey, you, get off my | :27:48. | :27:53. | |
cloud. # And former band members, Bill | :27:53. | :27:57. | |
Wyman and Mick Taylor returned. Much was made of the ticket prices. | :27:57. | :28:00. | |
Mick Jagger joked about it asking how they were in the cheap seats, | :28:01. | :28:06. | |
before adding that they were not any, but the crowd seemed to think | :28:06. | :28:11. | |
it was worth ever penny. It is pretty special. It is not | :28:11. | :28:17. | |
often you get to see that. The guys put on it -- put on a form. It was | :28:17. | :28:22. | |
incredible. Incredible. One thing they didn't get was any | :28:22. | :28:28. | |
satisfaction. Scheduled to the -- to be the last song the night, the | :28:28. | :28:35. | |
strict curfew meant it had to be dropped. | :28:35. | :28:39. | |
Now let's get the very latest on the rain, where it has been and | :28:39. | :28:44. | |
where it is going. Nina Ridge is here. | :28:44. | :28:49. | |
here. What is it like, Nina? It is still | :28:49. | :28:54. | |
falling. This morning's focus, where the heaviest downpours have | :28:54. | :28:58. | |
been have been the north of England. That is moving to north wells. | :28:58. | :29:02. | |
It is the North East England and North Wales where the amber | :29:02. | :29:08. | |
warnings are in force. The rain totals are mounting up with a | :29:08. | :29:12. | |
potential for yet further flooding. On the rest of the afternoon, there | :29:12. | :29:17. | |
are showers in the south, but they will come and go with dry spells | :29:17. | :29:24. | |
between. Showers in northern Scotland, but sunshine in the high | :29:24. | :29:29. | |
north, but the rain is stit sitting with us in parts of northern | :29:29. | :29:34. | |
England and North Wales as well. As we head to midnight, that is when | :29:34. | :29:39. | |
the warning is in force. It is moving to the south through this | :29:39. | :29:46. | |
evening, easing off later on in the night. Showers in the north fr | :29:46. | :29:48. | |
Scotland. Clearer Customs and Excise in the south-west of | :29:48. | :29:53. | |
Scotland, meaning a risk of frost. Outbreaks of rain continuing in the | :29:53. | :29:58. | |
south-west. Temperatures here holding up to | :29:58. | :30:04. | |
seven Celsius, but in Glasgow, lose of three Celsius. | :30:04. | :30:09. | |
We are starting to see changes in the weather for tomorrow. Although | :30:09. | :30:14. | |
it is cloudy and damp in the south. It clears to the east. By 3.00pm, | :30:14. | :30:17. | |
there are showers peppering the coast of North East Scotland, but | :30:17. | :30:22. | |
to the west it is drier. Western Scotland with some brightness. | :30:22. | :30:25. | |
Parts of Northern Ireland, bright with sunny spells. There are | :30:25. | :30:29. | |
showers in the north and the east of England, down to East Anglia and | :30:29. | :30:34. | |
the south-east corner, but a rest from the rain. There is drier | :30:34. | :30:40. | |
weather and sunshine across the south-east England and Wales, but | :30:40. | :30:44. | |
feeling colder. That theme taking us through the rest of the week but | :30:44. | :30:49. | |
the drier weather to continue. The rain that we have been having has | :30:49. | :30:53. | |
been down to low pressure and the weather front. That is clearing to | :30:53. | :30:57. | |
the east Tuesday and into Wednesday. High pressure is building in behind | :30:57. | :31:01. | |
with the best of sunshine out to the west. Chilly in the mornings, | :31:01. | :31:05. | |
there is a night time frost. A cold northerly wind and still showers | :31:05. | :31:09. | |
that can be wintry over the high ground of northern England and | :31:09. | :31:13. | |
parts of Scotland. Temperatures at best up to nine Celsius. Still a | :31:13. | :31:17. | |
risk of disruption due to the flooding and heavy rain. | :31:17. | :31:20. | |
flooding and heavy rain. Thank you very much. | :31:20. | :31:25. |