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The Chancellor warns multi-national companies that the Government will | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
come after those that avoid paying tax. George Osborne announces tens | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
of millions of pounds of extra funding to tackle what he called | :00:17. | :00:24. | |
aggressive avoidance schemes. people pay their taxes, few don't. | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
Those who don't, we are coming after them. Diplomatic pressure - | :00:29. | :00:38. | |
Israel's ambassador in London is summoned to the Foreign Office. | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
Putting patients at risk. Hospitals wards are sometimes so full safety | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
is being compromised. Victims of last week's devastating | :00:45. | :00:51. | |
flooding in parts of Wales get a visit from Prince Charles. | :00:51. | :00:57. | |
They said it wouldn't catch on. Today, the text message celebrates | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
its 20th anniversary. On BBC London: Two men die in an | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
accident on the M1 near Watford, causing the motorway to close for | :01:05. | :01:06. | |
hours. And we learn there were warnings | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
the Hammersmith Flyover could collapse two months before it | :01:09. | :01:19. | |
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Good afternoon. Welcome to the BBC News at One. The Chancellor's | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
warned multi-national companies that the Government will come after | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
those that avoid paying tax. George Osborne has announced tens of | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
millions of pounds of extra funding for HM Revenue and Customs as part | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
of efforts to tackle "aggressive avoidance schemes". It follows | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
criticism from a group of MPs who describe the way some multi- | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
nationals organise their tax affairs as an insult. | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
After the grilling of Starbucks, Google and Amazon over tax | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
avoidance, the Government says it will pay to squeeze more out of | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
multi-nationals and wealthy individuals. Starbucks was the | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
latest to be targeted. It was accused by MPs of transferring | :02:14. | :02:21. | |
profits overseas so that it hardly pays any tax in the UK. We are not | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
aggressively looking to avoid tax. Its Chief Financial Officer was | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
given a rough ride last month. Now, the Committee's chair has accused | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
companies who minimise their tax as being immoral. The tax authorities | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
have to get a grip and start aggressively policing our tax | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
borders, so that they question these negotiations and the amounts | :02:46. | :02:53. | |
of profits that these companies export. Starbucks had sales of | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
nearly �400 million last year and paid zero corporation tax. Google's | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
UK sales were �2.5 billion and it paid �6 million and Amazon on sales | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
of �3 billion, it says it paid �1.8 million in UK corporation tax last | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
year. Amazon's sales will be bigger this Christmas, but it says it pays | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
all the applicable taxes in every jurisdiction it operates in across | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
the world. These companies generates employment, sales which | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
generates VAT. We don't want to scare that away. It's all about | :03:30. | :03:38. | |
getting a fair amount into our Government's coffers. Starbucks has | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
said after listening to feedback, it's decided it needs to do more | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
and it is in talks with the tax authorities. Most multi-nationals, | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
despite the fact they haven't been accused of breaking the law, are | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
preparing themselves for much closer scrutiny of their tax | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
affairs. Today, the Treasury promised an extra �77 million over | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
two years to tackle tax avoidance which they say should bring in �2 | :04:05. | :04:12. | |
billion more annually. The Chancellor visited a tax office | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
today with the Chief Secretary to the Treasury to ram home his plan | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
to raise more. There is a very clear message. Most people pay | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
their taxes. A few don't. Those people we are coming after them. | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
With on the road publicity, the Revenue is trying to dispel the | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
idea that while everyone else is up against it, some people can get | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
around their tax. Let's get more from Norman Smith. | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
Isn't this going to need international co-operation and a | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
change in the law if the Government is to really recoup the sort of | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
figures it says it will? Government say they are going to | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
try and ensure there is greater co- operation internationally. They say | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
they believe by investing more in specialist tax inspectors, they | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
really can claw back huge amounts of money. We are not talking about | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
the equivalent of you or I putting our hand down the back of the sofa | :05:08. | :05:18. | |
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and emerging with a 50p. They are talking about us emerging with a | :05:20. | :05:30. | |
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great number of tenners. So huge amounts of money. When you | :05:31. | :05:38. | |
mentioned those figures to leading accountancy firms, they say these | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
companies are not actually breaking the law and they estimate the | :05:42. | :05:49. | |
amount of money may be as low as �1 billion. It seems to me this is as | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
much about politics as money. Just two days before the Autumn | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
Statement, the Chancellor wants to be in a position whereby he can say | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
to voters, bracing them for more years of austerity, that he is | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
ensuring those in the corporate world are bearing their fair share | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
of pain. Interestingly, the Prime Minister, we understand, while he | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
does not necessarily back the boycotts we have seen of companies | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
like Starbucks, Downing Street says he understands why people want | :06:19. | :06:26. | |
these big companies to pay their fair share of tax. Thank you. | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
The Israeli Ambassador in London was summoned to the Foreign Office | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
this morning following the decision by the Israeli government to expand | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
settlements and build-up to 3,000 more houses in the West Bank. James | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
Robbins is at the Foreign Office. What are we to read into the move | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
in terms of the seriousness of this? Let me tell you what happened | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
this morning. This morning, Israel's ambassador to the United | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
Kingdom was summoned here to the Foreign Office for a meeting with | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
the Middle East Minister, effectively a rebuke. He was told | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
that Britain deplores the recent Israeli government decision to | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
build those 3,000 new homes and to press ahead with possible | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
development plans for a highly controversial block of land known | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
as E1, which lies between East Jerusalem and the Palestinian West | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
Bank. Britain is really worried that this could make the prospects | :07:24. | :07:31. | |
for a final two-state solution even more remote. And their view is | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
shared strongly by others. The French took exactly parallel action, | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
summoning the Israeli Ambassador in Paris. The wider context - the | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
Israelis took this action in direct retaliation for Palestinian success | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
last week at the United Nations in achieving an upgrade in their | :07:51. | :07:59. | |
status towards statehood. The atmosphere for long-term peace | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
settlement talks seems more poisonous than ever before. Thank | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
you. Some hospital patients are being | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
put at risk by overcrowding, according to a report from the | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
healthcare research firm Dr Foster. They suggest a growing number of | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
frail and elderly patients are being treated in hospitals because | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
of a lack of care elsewhere and that is creating pressure in the | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
system. The Government said there is spare capacity and the system | :08:28. | :08:34. | |
can cope. In hospital, with a broken elbow | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
after a fall, this woman was cheerful enough. She would be going | :08:39. | :08:45. | |
home after three days. You know where everything is. I just prefer | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
to be home. I'm sure everybody else does as well. That is because here, | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
patients don't stay long on the ward. The hospital works with the | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
local GPs and the council providing as much care as they can outside | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
hospital. We start by saying if patients can stay at home, they | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
should stay at home. If a patient needs to come into hospital, they | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
will come into the hospital for the minimum amount of time and then we | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
get them back home with a care package wherever possible. One very | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
good measure of the pressures on hospitals is how many of their beds | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
are full at any one time. This research shows that most hospitals | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
in England have 90% of their beds being used for most of the year. | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
But here in Torbay, they have managed to bring the level right | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
down. So what are the pressures on hospitals? The Government says on | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
average the NHS is not overcrowded. It always has spare beds for | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
emergency. But if you take out the quiet holiday times, experts say | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
the picture is quite different. When you start to look underneath | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
those numbers, you find there are particular moments when hospitals | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
come under a great deal of pressure. Sometimes they are full. At that | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
point, it is difficult to provide the safe, effective caring service | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
that we all want hospitals to provide. There are signs of some | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
hospitals struggling. This analysis also shows 12 Trusts had higher | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
than expected rates of deaths. One potential warning sign of problems. | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
Torbay has faced up to the challenges of treating elderly | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
people. Charities say a similar rethink needs to happen elsewhere. | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
Older people are going into hospital when they don't need to. | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
The costs are shooting up for the NHS. But at the same time, local | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
authorities are cutting social care in homes and in communities. From | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
next year, hospital patients in England will be asked about their | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
experience. And the Government says it is looking at better long-term | :10:46. | :10:54. | |
funding of care at home. You can see more of the Dr Foster | :10:54. | :11:01. | |
report on Panorama tonight at 8.30pm. Figures from the Bank of | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
England show that banks and building societies took almost �4.5 | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
billion in the first two months of its new Funding for Lending Scheme. | :11:09. | :11:19. | |
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The banks have only increased their It's the Bank of England's big idea | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
backed by the Chancellor to get more lending out to businesses and | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
households to help boost growth. Today we got the first set of | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
figures which show lending is up but not by very much. It has not | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
always been easy for banks and building societies to borrow money | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
at low interest rates tonne wholesale market. The point of the | :11:50. | :11:59. | |
scheme was to make cash available at low interest rates to the | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
lenders. By the end of September �4.4 billion had been borrowed from | :12:04. | :12:10. | |
the Bank of England. Between June and September, only an extra �0.5 | :12:10. | :12:20. | |
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billion had been lent out. Barclays And Nationwide are among those to | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
have increased lending. The Bank of England says availability of | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
mortgage funding has increased and Liam has taken advantage of that. | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
have had the go-ahead from the mortgage now. He's spent two years | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
trying to buy his first home. But only in the last few months was he | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
able to find a mortgage which worked for him and so go ahead with | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
the purchase. Most mortgage companies give you a good deal and | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
waiver those fees to accept their deal and it is like the mortgage | :12:51. | :12:59. | |
lenders are fighting to get you to apply for a mortgage. But a few | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
miles away, a local small business adviser has a more downbeat | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
assessment. He argues the Bank of England's scheme hasn't made things | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
easier for his clients. There could be additional help there. I don't | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
think the scheme is helping. It is not meaning there is more money | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
available to them for a deal now the bank wouldn't have done six | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
months ago. Leading banks say they will borrow more money and step up | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
support for businesses and homeowners and they have cut | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
interest rates on mortgages and business loans. The Bank of England | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
says it will take time for banks to process the new loans and get cash | :13:36. | :13:43. | |
out into the economy. The Home Secretary has applied for | :13:43. | :13:53. | |
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permission to appeal against a decision to block the removal of | :13:53. | :14:02. | |
Abu Qatada. A ban on big shops and supermarkets | :14:02. | :14:09. | |
in Wales displaying tobacco comes into force today. It is supposed to | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
remove the temptation for young people to take up smoking. | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
Businesses breaking the law - which was introduced in England earlier | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
this year - could be fined up to �5,000 or jailed for up to two | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
years. It's thought shoppers in the UK | :14:21. | :14:27. | |
will break all records today for online shopping. Known as Mega | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
Monday, consumers are expected to make 115 million visits to retail | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
websites, an increase of 36% on last year. A separate report by | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
Visa estimates that consumers will spend over �200,000 every minute on | :14:36. | :14:46. | |
its cards - with a total of 6.8 million transactions across the day. | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
Talks between the coalition and Labour about how to respond to the | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
Leveson Report will get under way again in just under an hour's time, | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
ahead of a major Commons debate on the recommendations for press | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
regulation later this afternoon. Our political correspondent, Carole | :14:58. | :15:05. | |
Walker, is in Westminster. Is a cross-party agreement looking | :15:05. | :15:14. | |
At the moment there is a big Gulf between the parties on the key | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
question of whether you need new laws to back up a system of | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
regulation for the press, although there seems to be room for | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
compromise on some other issues. David Cameron said he does not want | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
legislation. He think it is could undermine the freedom of the press | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
and also Britain's reputation for this in countries around the world, | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
but he has ordered officials to draw up a draft bill in any case. | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
Labour have said given his attitude, that they are not confident that | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
what which will arrive at the end of this will be something that is | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
workable and effective, so they are drawing up an alternative draft | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
Bill. The Lib Dem's, the Government's coalition partners say | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
they want new legislation. We will get a sense of where the MPs stand | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
on this afternoon, but there will not be a vote now. Come January if | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
the differences cannot be resolved they could get to vote on two | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
different sets of draft proposals. In the meantime David Cameron will | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
be summoning newspaper editors to Downing Street to talk to them | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
about this. He will say, that there is a huge amount of pressure for | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
the edge shraigs, not just from Parliament, but from some of the | :16:26. | :16:33. | |
victims of phone hacking who have gotten a lot of public sympathy. He | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
will say that they have to get together with a proper plan or they | :16:36. | :16:42. | |
could face a harder regime than any of them want. | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
The top story: The Chancellor wants multi-national | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
companies that the Government will come after those that avoid paying | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
tax. I'm here at Surrey Sports Park, | :16:55. | :17:01. | |
where hundreds of people are hoping to become the next Paralympic stars. | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
Later on BBC London: The Government is challenged at the high court | :17:06. | :17:12. | |
over plans for a high speed rail link and we find out the role that | :17:12. | :17:22. | |
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the Olympic Stadium will play in The Prince of Wales is visiting the | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
city of St Asaph in North Wales to offer his support to victims of | :17:28. | :17:34. | |
last week's floods. One died and 400 properties were engulfed in | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
water, whether the River Elwy burst its banks in heavy rain. | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
Our correspondent is there for us now. | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
Last week's flood tested the resolve of this community and, | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
sadly, it took away the life of an elderly resident. Today, the Prince | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
is able to meet some of those who felt the full effects of the | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
weather and who are now still cleaning up and drying out their | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
homes. This probably is not how Isla Jones | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
and Martin Jones envisaged welcoming people to their new home. | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
The couple moved in four months ago, today they showed Prince Charles | :18:12. | :18:18. | |
how last week's flood turned their home into a recover bed. The mobile | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
phone picks captured the current as it washed past and through their | :18:22. | :18:29. | |
house. In many ways, it has been an incredible seven gays. | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
-- seven days. Surreal. What a lovely, genuine man | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
he is. He was interested in everything we were telling him, | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
showing him and yes, a nice guy. Like many in St Asaph, the couple | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
know that they will not spend Christmas here, this year, maybe | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
even next year too. Realistically, a minimum of 12 | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
months. The insurers said eight to 12 months. | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
The Prince wanted to meet not just those forced to leave their homes | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
but the dozens of emergency and volunteers who staged a mass | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
evacuation. Teams moved from deer- to-door, trying to rescue often | :19:10. | :19:16. | |
frail and vulnerable residents. OK? Today's visit may not change | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
the challenges, still facing this community, but it did offer respite | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
from the months of repair work that lie ahead. | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
Well, the Prince's visit ended here at St Asaph Cathedral, where he was | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
able to meet many of the volunteers who came together to sustain the | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
hundreds of people forced from their homes. We saw in the days | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
following the flood, donations of clothes, bedding food and finances | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
that could help to support these people, mot just now, for Christmas, | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
but maybe for months, if not for years to come. | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
Several new criminal offences take effect in England and Wales today. | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
Including a new offence of aggravated knife crime and | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
mandatory life sentences for anyone committing a sec serious violent or | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
sexual offence. -- second. | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
Various measures have been tried it tackle knife crime, including ak | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
nestis. Now there is a new criminal offence of aggravated knife crime. | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
It targets those who use knives in a public place or a school to | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
threaten and to create a risk of serious orifice kal harm. In almost | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
all cases, judges must impose a custodial sentence. A minimum six | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
months prison for adults or a four month detention and training order | :20:35. | :20:41. | |
for 16 to 17-year-olds. Knife crime can blight cities and | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
estates, according to Government figures in the year to June 2012, | :20:45. | :20:51. | |
there were just over 29,000 recorded offences involving knives. | :20:51. | :20:57. | |
That is down 9% from the previous year, but just 22% of cases | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
involving possession resulted in an immediate custodial sentence. | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
There are some areas where society as a whole expects Government | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
politicians to say that there is a minimum. A clear message to people | :21:10. | :21:16. | |
who attempt to carry knives to use them in an aggressive way, that you | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
should and will go to jail. But some leading lawyers feel that | :21:20. | :21:26. | |
the new offence will achieve little. This is a blunt instrument in terms | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
of deterrent sentences. All of research show it is does not work. | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
No-one in that moment of pulling a knife thinks about the deterrent. A | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
lot do not know about it. Among the other sentences coming | :21:38. | :21:44. | |
into force today, there is the so- called two-strike system, a new | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
mandatory life sentence for people convicted of a second, very serious | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
sexual or violent offence. While some see the new measures as | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
reducing a judge's discretion, others will welcome what is seen as | :21:55. | :22:02. | |
a tough new regime. It causes hundreds of hours of | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
train delays, puts lives at risk and costs the UK economy millions | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
of pounds a week. Metal theft is a serious crime that affects us all. | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
The Government has introduced new measures to make it harder for the | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
thieves to profit. From today it is illegal to use cash when recycling | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
metal in England and Wales. The scrap metal business has been | :22:24. | :22:30. | |
cleaning up its act over the years. It has had to. | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
Metal theft has been rampant from church roofs to railways, to | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
telephone cables. It is a highly damaging and expensive criminal | :22:39. | :22:46. | |
trend. From today's, scrapyards in England | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
and Wales are banned from dealing in cash. So there will be paper | :22:50. | :22:57. | |
records of all transactions. There, -- are, though, loopholes in the | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
law, but that should be closed by legislation coming soon. That is | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
essential. There has been a lag with the | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
Government getting to grips with this. It reached a point where the | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
metal theft was a horrific problem, they have done that today. Now we | :23:14. | :23:22. | |
have to iron out the loopholes, sort out the out of date' 64 scrap | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
metal dealer's act. It needs dealing. | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
So, enhanced powers for the police, but how enforceable will the new | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
law be? I have no doubt there will be some scrap metal dealers | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
operating outside of the law. We will take firm enforcement action | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
to bring them on the right side of the law, but I am confidence | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
because of the work we have done with the British Mteals Recycling | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
Association, that we will see high rates of compliance with the new | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
legislation. No-one is claiming that this is the | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
silver bullet to solve metal theft, but the cashless system has proved | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
effective in France and spot-checks and police raids are making a real | :24:01. | :24:09. | |
difference and not before time. After the success of the | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
ParalympicsGB in London, the British Paralympic association | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
wants to keep the momentum going for Rio and beyond. Today Sports | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
Fest is being launched in Surrey with the hope of inspiring people | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
to take up some of the sports involved. | :24:26. | :24:32. | |
Andy Swiss joins us now from Guildford. As you say, Britain's | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
Paralympians were one of the success stories of the summer. | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
Today they are trying to build on that. Behind me is the wheelchair | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
basketball going on. One of 20 sports to have a go at here if you | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
fancied becoming a Paralympic star, this could be your chance. Three | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
months on, but the memories are as fresh as ever. Britain's | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
Paralympians provided the glories climax to a golden summer, from | :25:00. | :25:06. | |
Jonnie Peacock to Ellie Simmonds, unforgettable moments that inspired | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
a nation. Now the hunt is on for the stars of the future. A chance | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
for children to try out sports, for children like Caroline and | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
Christian, it is a school outing to remember. | :25:19. | :25:25. | |
I wanted to do the basketball training. This looks like fun and | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
maybe volley ball. People who are not as disabled as us can still do | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
the sports that they love but in wheelchairs. | :25:36. | :25:42. | |
10% of Britain's Paralympic team in London came through days out like, | :25:42. | :25:49. | |
this including Adam Knott. I got to the Paralympics in two- | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
and-a-half years. They will have another year-and-a-half on top of | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
me. If you train hard, you can succeed. | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
And certainly the success of Britain's Paralympians has raised | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
interest levels to new heights. We have anything up to 800 people | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
registered to come here. It is something that we want to replicate | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
across the UK. Comparing that to where we were after Beijing, we had | :26:15. | :26:21. | |
successful days, with up to 50 people coming to a session. You can | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
see the exponential growth that London has brought. | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
Today, �10 million is being promised for investment in | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
disability sport. It seems that the Paralympian impact has only just | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
begun. Next year they are hoping to take | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
this sports open day to different places around the country. The hope, | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
really, that there is a success of the Paralympics it just the start | :26:44. | :26:54. | |
of something special. Now 20 years ago today, the first | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
ever text message was sent it read merry Christmas, it was sent by a | :26:59. | :27:05. | |
young engineer in December, 1992. It is thought now that 8 trillion | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
texts are sent a year. Used for everything from hiring and | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
firing to proposing and breaking up. In 20 years it transformed the way | :27:15. | :27:21. | |
that we comounicate. It started with an engineer sending a message | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
-- Communicates. One day they said we want to send a | :27:25. | :27:31. | |
message. I was there at the right time. In the hot seat, so to speak. | :27:31. | :27:36. | |
From merry Christmas, to you are dumped, we have all found ways of | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
expressing ourselves via the text message, but in the early days, the | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
phone industry did not think it was take off. | :27:43. | :27:46. | |
The mobile phone companies knew that this would be possible, but | :27:46. | :27:50. | |
did not release it as they did not think there would be the uptake. | :27:50. | :27:55. | |
They thought it was something that the engineers may use or the | :27:55. | :27:58. | |
internal companies, but did not see it as a user technology. | :27:58. | :28:03. | |
But the users did see the appeal. In the UK they sent 150 billion | :28:04. | :28:10. | |
texts. The average person sends 50 texts a week and al% of UK adults | :28:10. | :28:14. | |
texts friends and family at least once a day, but in the age of the | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
smartphone, there are the first signs that texting may have peaked. | :28:18. | :28:23. | |
It was said that there was a slight dip in the number of texts this | :28:23. | :28:28. | |
year with people turning to instant messaging, Twitter and apps that | :28:28. | :28:31. | |
allow you to communicate for nothing. | :28:31. | :28:35. | |
People are probably texting less because of Facebook and smart | :28:35. | :28:39. | |
phones that mean people are texting less. I am using free applications | :28:39. | :28:44. | |
to send my messages. All I do is text. I get free texts | :28:44. | :28:48. | |
each month. We may be moving on, but 20 years | :28:48. | :28:50. | |
after the first message, we are finding that texting, rather than | :28:50. | :28:56. | |
talking is often the quickest way of getting in touch. | :28:56. | :29:01. | |
Now, let's get an all-important update on the weather with Phil. | :29:02. | :29:06. | |
update on the weather with Phil. How is it looking, Phil? Bright and | :29:06. | :29:11. | |
breezy, I will say it rather than texting. I have not got that much | :29:11. | :29:16. | |
time! There are some exceptions to the rule of bright and breezy. We | :29:16. | :29:21. | |
have had this weather front bringing rain, sleet and snow. It | :29:21. | :29:25. | |
is trying to get away from the north-east of Scotland. | :29:25. | :29:28. | |
Another area where you will not see very much in the way of brightness | :29:28. | :29:33. | |
is down to the south-western corner. More rain here for the afternoon. | :29:33. | :29:37. | |
There the cloud is thickening. The front taking its time to get away | :29:37. | :29:41. | |
from the Channel and the southern counties. In the north, the showers | :29:41. | :29:46. | |
will ripple through on a westerly breeze. Northern Ireland, there is | :29:46. | :29:50. | |
a mixture of sunny smells -- spells and showers here. | :29:50. | :29:54. | |
So too for the west of Scotland. Know is above the north-eastern | :29:54. | :30:00. | |
corner of Scotland. After a rather dank start to the | :30:00. | :30:06. | |
day, I think that we will get sunshine in many of the eastern | :30:06. | :30:11. | |
parts of the England -- English countryside. | :30:11. | :30:16. | |
In many parts, not so cold. In some parts seeing double figures, | :30:16. | :30:21. | |
but cher I can that, it will not last. This evening, the prospect of | :30:21. | :30:25. | |
showers on the western side of the British Isles. A breeze too. That | :30:25. | :30:29. | |
will keep the areas frost-free in the south. A different start in the | :30:29. | :30:34. | |
heart of Scotland. Watch out for the temperatures falling away, an | :30:34. | :30:39. | |
ice problem and freezing fog. You may have to contend with that on | :30:39. | :30:45. | |
Tuesday. Then cloud to the east in Northern Ireland. More snow on the | :30:45. | :30:50. | |
higher grounds of the north-east of Scotland. Showers packing on to the | :30:50. | :30:53. | |
breeze away through Wales, the south-west and Northern Ireland too. | :30:53. | :30:57. | |
The best of the sunshine into the Midlands and central and southern | :30:57. | :31:02. | |
England. The breeze was coming in from the west and the north-west. | :31:02. | :31:06. | |
Out of Tuesday, into Wednesday, notice how behind the weather front | :31:06. | :31:11. | |
we really straighten the isobars into a northerly. That will put a | :31:11. | :31:15. | |
dent in the temperatures and a change in the feel of the day from | :31:15. | :31:19. | |
the middle of the week. So snow showers more on the high ground | :31:19. | :31:24. | |
down the eastern side of the British Isles. Then a chance of | :31:24. | :31:28. | |
sunshine on Wednesday, but as you see there, two, three or four | :31:28. | :31:32. | |
Celsius will be the order of the day. So chilly day and night over | :31:32. | :31:36. |