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A sharp rise in the number of people who were born abroad now

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living in England and Wales - the latest census shows it's risen by

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63% in the past decade to 7.5 million - many from India, Poland

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and Pakistan. An eighth night of protests in

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Belfastafter a policewoman narrowly escapes from a petrol bombed car.

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The police say it was attempted murder.

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The Government sets out its plans to allow same-sex marriage, but it

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will still be illegal in the Church of England and Church in Wales. -

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$$NEWLINE It's revealed that Nelson Mandela is suffering from a lung

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infection, but he's said to be responding to treatment in hospital.

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The British bank HSBC agrees to pay the US authorities a record �1.2

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billion to settle money laundering claims.

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Later on BBC London, new figures suggest there are 4,000 fewer Met

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police officers now than two years ago. Protests at stations around

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the capital over the above- inflation fare rises planned for

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Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. The number of

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foreign-born residents in England and Wales has risen by almost four

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million in the past ten years. -- three million in the past ten years.

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13% of the current population - that's 7.5 million people - were

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born abroad, many in India, Poland and Pakistan. The figures from the

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latest census show the total number of people living in England and

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Wales is up 7% to just over 56 million and more than half that

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rise is due to migration. Mike Sergeant has been taking a look at

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the figures. The changing face of England and

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Wales as revealed by the most detailed and comprehensive of

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surveys - it's the story of the rapid social change of the past

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decade. The overall population numbers from the 2011 census were

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published earlier this year, but today they released much more

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detail, and it's a fascinating snapshot of increasing diversity in

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England and Wales. The census reveals that 7.5 million people

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were born abroad, with almost 3 million arriving in the past ten

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years and a fall in those describing their ethnic group as

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white-British. We have had a fall in the white-British, so 80% of the

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population declared themselves as white-British, so it's still the

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majority ethnic group, but that was a fall of seven percentage points

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since 2001. The impact of migration is clearly visible in the census.

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Boston and Lincolnshire has experienced one of the sharpest

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increases from people coming from Poland. In this Latvian shop they

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have seen some changes. Nine years ago it was maybe a couple of

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hundred. Now is more than I think 3,000 in this area, and the big

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changes in the last three, four years... The religious makeup of

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England and Wales is changing too. There were 33 million Christians in

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2011, a drop of four million in ten years. The Muslim population

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increased to 2.7 million. The number with no religion at all

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almost doubled to 14 million. Norwich had fewer worshippers than

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anywhere else. It just goes with the territory of what's going on in

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the world, isn't it? Not a lot of people believe these days. Some

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days and that are spent shopping, I suppose, nowaday, which is the next

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big religion or football, I suppose. You can have faith in a lot of

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other things apart from just one deity. But in Norwich Cathedral,

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they disputed the idea that this was the least religious place in

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England and Wales. It's really hard to square the results of the census

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with what we see here on the ground in Norwich. We've got a church

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around every corner, and most of them are doing very well. Many of

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them are growing. Here in this cathedral, we're seeing literally

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hundreds of people through the doors every day this month. Another

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eye catching statistic is that in London, white British people are

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now in the minority for the first time, more evidence of just how

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rapidly parts of England and Wales have been changing.

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Let's speak to our Home Editor, Mark Easton, who's at Newham in

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east London. Really, fascinating figures. Tell us more about what

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show about our society? I want to pick up on what Mike was saying at

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the end of his report. London, the capital of the United Kingdom, a

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majority of people now living in the capital do not describe

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themselves as white-British, and the reason I'm here in Newham is

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that only one person in six in this East London borough would describe

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themselves as white-British. Now, of course, it's a story that really

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is a London story in a way. It's very much an international city.

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Beyond London, there is still the same sort of trend. We're seeing a

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reduction in the number of people who say they're white-British, but

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it's not anywhere near the same extent. What we are seeing, though,

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is the impact of that decade of high levels of migration from the

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Indian subcontinent and from Poland - half a million Poles now living

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in England and Wales, but it's worth remembering that this is not

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just a sort of British story. This is happening in many countries

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across Western Europe. In fact, we've got fewer people born abroad

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as a proportion here than they have in countries like Sweden, and we're

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about the same level as countries like Germany and France and the

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Netherlands, so, yes, it's a fascinating decade of social change,

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but it's one that's not just happening in this country. It's

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happening right across Western Europe. Mark Easton, thank you very

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much. Police in Northern Ireland are

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hunting a gang who petrol bombed a car while an officer was sat inside.

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She managed to escape unharmed, but police are treating it as attempted

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murder. It's the latest incident in on-going protests against a

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decision not to fly the Union flag over Belfast City Hall, except on

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designated days. Here's our Ireland correspondent, Mark Simpson.

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There's no end in sight to the trouble in Belfast, and in some

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parts of the city, it's getting worse. In east Belfast last night,

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a female police officer was attacked in this car. A gang of

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hooded men threw a petrol bomb inside the vehicle while she was

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still inside. She somehow managed to escape. Police said it was

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attempted murder. This morning, the clearup began in the area. Local

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people were shocked about what happened here last night. Mortified,

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especially going on around here, like, you know, and all that

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trouble about the flag and all - just a nightmare. Hopefully it will

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fizzle out, and it's hard to know exactly what's going on behind the

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scenes, really. I don't want it to continue, and I don't approve of

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the police getting it either, but I think the Union flag should be put

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back up again. Belfast City Hall decided last week to stop flying

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the Union flag every day. Loyalists have been protesting ever since.

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Some of the demonstrations have been peaceful. Others haven't.

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Politicians from all of the parties at store month have called for the

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vile -- Stormont have called for the violence to stop. Those

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involved aren't listening. Now the issue has reached Westminster. This

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afternoon the Government will make a statement in the House of Commons.

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Those who seek to defend the Union flag do no service to their cause

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by engaging in riot, violence and disorder. I think it's disgraceful

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what's been happening. Historically, most Protestants in Northern

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Ireland have wanted to remain in the United Kingdom, while most

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Catholics prefer a united Ireland. The results of the latest census

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published today indicate a 5% decrease in the Protestant

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population here. 48% are Protestant. 45% are Catholic. Whatever the

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statistics, the most immediate concern of politicians is to try to

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bring peace to the streets. The trouble has now been going on for

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more than a week. Mark is in Belfast now. What's that

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latest, Mark? Well, I've just been handed the very latest statistics

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from the police, Sophie, and I have to say they make for very grim

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reading here in what's supposed to be the new Belfast. As we know,

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it's eight days since the trouble began. 29 police officers have now

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been injured. 38 people arrested, 26 people charged, including three

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13-year-old boys - three 13-year- old boys! I have to say, though,

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the police have managed to contain the violence, and let's be honest -

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it's nowhere near as bad as Belfast used to be, but - and it's a big

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"but" - the longer this violence goes on, the more dangerous the

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situation here becomes. Mark, thank you very much.

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In the last hour, the Government has been giving more details of its

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plans to allow same-sex marriages in church. Religious organisations,

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like the Quakers, which want to conduct them, will be allowed to.

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But same-sex marriages will still be illegal in the Church of England

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and the Church in Wales. Let's speak to our political

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correspondent, Norman Smith. Tell us more about these proposals

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because no church is ever going to be forced to conduct a same-sex

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marriage, is it? The reality is although the Culture Secretary has

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stressed the Government's determination to press ahead with

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its plans for gay marriage, she's unveiled a series of legal

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concessions, the practical concessions of which will be to

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severely curtail the number of churches or religious

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establishments available to same- sex couples to get married in, and

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this was in response to criticism from many of our own backbenchs

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that some churches might face a legal challenge and be forced to

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hold same-sex ceremonies against their will. Now, the quadruple lock,

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as she called it, consists of a commitment by the Government to

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make it illegal for the Church of England and the Church in Wales to

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hold same-sex ceremonies on their premises. Secondly, she said it

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would not be possible for individual Ministers or individual

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priests to hold same-sex ceremonies on their church even if they were

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in favour of such ceremonies unless their church as a whole had

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explicitly agreed to that, and thirdly, she was going to amend the

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Equalities Act so that people could not take out discrimination cases

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against the church for not holding same-sex ceremonies and lastly on

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the face of the bill is going to be written a Declaration by the

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Government that no faith will be forced to hold such ceremony

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against their will. The upshot of that it seems to me is only a very,

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very small number of churches or establishments are likely to be

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available to same-sex couples for wedding ceremonies. Now, that is a

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series of concessions which will undoubtedly appease many of her

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critics, particularly on the backbenches. The danger is it will

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anger many supporters of same-sex marriage who will feel she's given

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far too much ground. Thank you very much.

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Britain's biggest international bank, HSBC, is being fined a record

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�1.2 billion to settle allegations of money laundering. Prosecutors in

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America say drug cartels, terrorists and countries under

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international sanctions like Iran and North Korea have laundered

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money through the bank. HSBC said it was profoundly sorry for what it

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called its "past mistakes". Simon Gompertz reports. HSBC's

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shame is to be faced with the biggest fine ever imposed in the

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United States for banking misconduct. In Mexico in the grip

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of drug gangs, its operation was a key target of investigations. HSBC

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had inadequate controls to prevent drug proceeds being syphoned out of

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the country. This man worked in HSBC's US compliance department

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between 2010 and 2011. My job was to find suspicious activity, report

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it, stop it and make sure the bank was complying with the Bank Secrecy

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Act and the other laws of the United States of America. And how

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much suspicious activity did you find? A lot. HSBC's failings

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included allowing �4.3 billion to be shipped from Mexico to the US

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without adequate checks, to have let customers complete thousands of

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transactions with Iran despite American restrictions and to have

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handled suspicious travellers' cheques, thought to have originated

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in Russia. In Washington hearings in July, a senior HSBC figure,

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David Bagley, resigned after admitting the bank had been lax.

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HSBC has fallen short of our own expectations... Today HSBC said it

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was profoundly sorry and was spending hundreds of millions of

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pounds overhauling its controls across the world. The shock is that

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one of Europe's biggest banks could have allowed itself to have become

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tainted by association with drug profits and money laundering. The

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US Senate Committee which investigated said that HSBC had

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laid itself open to becoming a conduit for drug kingpins and rogue

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nations. It's been an embarrassing week for

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UK-based international banks. Standard Chartered was fined

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heavily yesterday for violating US sanctions on Iran.

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Three men have been arrested in connection with the manipulation of

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a key interest rate that determines how much banks charge to lend money.

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The men from Surrey and Essex, who are aged between 33 and 47, are the

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first to be arrested following the Libor scandal. The men, who are all

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British nationals, have been taken to a police station in London for

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questioning. Around 150,000 Northern Rock asset

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management customers will receive hundreds of pounds each in

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compensation owing to mistakes made in paperwork. Bank staff failed to

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include key details on annual statements about loans. The �270

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million for the refunds will come from the taxpayer as this section

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of the bank has been owned by the Government since 2008.

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Doctors in South Africa say Nelson Mandela is suffering from a

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recurring lung infection, but they say he's responding well to

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treatment. The former South African president has been in hospital for

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four days. Our correspondent is in Johannesburg for us. So finally,

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some information about what he is suffering from. Do we know much

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Not a great deal more now but after these anxious days of having

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nothing to go on in terms of medical information, we do know two

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crucial things. The first is that he has a lung infection of some

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sort. We do not know if it is pneumonia or something less severe.

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We know this was something he had a couple of years ago. If he was

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brought to hospital in Johannesburg. He responded to treatment then,

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recovered and went home. We know he is responding to treatment so that

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is very encouraging news for the millions of people who have been

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waiting anxiously for news of Mr Mandela. He has been responding to

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treatment and now we will have to wait and find out what will happen

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next. How long will he stay in hospital, will he be able to return

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home to his home village, a big journey for a 94-year-old man to

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make. I have been out on the streets in Johannesburg this

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morning and people are following this news very carefully indeed. It

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is interesting when you talk to South Africans about Nelson Mandela,

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the one word which comes up every time his father. If people see him

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not just as the symbolic father of the nation, but almost in an

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intimate family way, they see him as a man who is closely bound up

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with their lives. There is a great deal of anxiety here but also a

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sense that he is 94, he is frail and people are realistic about the

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months, days, years to come. Thank you.

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Our top story this lunchtime: The number of foreign-born people in

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England and Wales has risen by nearly 3 million over the last

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decade to 7.5 million. I am at Wembley where English

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football authorities have come up with a new plan to tackle the

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recent spate of race related controversy Later on BBC London.

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How Londoners can help those sleeping on the streets this winter.

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$$NEWLINEAnd the once failing school that's turned itself around

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and helped inspire new teachers Armoured vehicles are proposing

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this -- patrolling streets of Cairo this lunchtime. Overnight, at least

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nine people were hurt when gunmen opened fire on opposition

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protesters camped out in Tahrir Square. In a moment, we will speak

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to our correspondent Jon Leyne who is with supporters of the President.

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First, we can go to George Alagiah who is outside the presidential

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palace in Cairo. I am outside the presidential

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palace, but you cannot see it because of this wall. It is about

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10 ft high. It was erected a few days ago when a previous protest

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turned nasty. Behind that, in theory the President is holed up

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trying to govern this country. Protesters are just beginning to

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arrive here for what promises to be a much of many thousands. The

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graffiti has already started. Some is unhelpful the written in English,

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this war will fall. Another one says, this wall will not protect

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you. The protesters here will be opponents of the government. They

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are the ones who want the President not to have this referendum... The

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draft constitution is not one which will take the country forward, but

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backwards. The people here will be opponents of the government. The

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supporters of the government a meeting elsewhere, preparing for

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their rival march. And my colleague Jon Leyne is with them.

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Yes, supporters of the President have been gathering here throughout

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the day and we are expecting bigger crowds in a couple of hours' time

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when people finish work. The posters here, one of them says vote

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Yes for the new constitution, for your son's' future. No mention of

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daughters. Another one says read the constitution, think about it

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and then vote yes. We found people selling copies of the constitution

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to cars and traffic jams. They are people who would usually be selling

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paper tissues and other knick- knacks. That is one side of how

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interesting people are in this. It is an interesting cross section of

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supporters. It is not only members of the Muslim Brotherhood, the

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president's own Islamist movement, there are members of hardline

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Islamist groups and that is an important won to note because that

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shows the pressure the President is under not to compromise with the

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Liberals. He is under pressure to maintain an even harder line, to

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rule this country from a more Islamist prospective. The

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supporters see this as a crucial show and test of the strength of

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their support. Thank you. I do not know if you can

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hear but there was a lot of banging going on. That is because there is

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a little gap between this concrete wall and the building there and the

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protesters are trying to get through to it. You can probably see

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those metal sheets being pulled apart that. The role of the

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military is going to be crucial today. Yesterday, the President

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gave the military power to arrest civilians. That was a controversial

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move. How they execute those powers could well decide how this day pans

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out. A crucial day for both sides for the government supporters and

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also for the opponents who will be here. Back to you.

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Thank you. An alliance of pupils, teaching unions and schools from

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England is mounting a legal challenge to last summer's GCSE

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English results. They argue that changing the grade boundaries for

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June's exams was unfair and left thousands of students with lower

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grades than they expected. One of the examining boards involved,

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Ofqual, said it would rigorously defend its decision.

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Never before have the results of a national exam ended up in court.

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George Green's School in London is one of a hundred and 50 schools in

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England challenging this summer's GCSE English results. The marks

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needed to get a good grade where race halfway through the year,

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meaning some pupils expecting a C grade got a D grade. Jack Coote was

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one of them. He almost lost his apprenticeship that his employer to

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come on on condition that he we sat the exam. It is really unfair. I

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have to retake an exam which I have already passed and it is not just

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me, it is everybody else all over the country. The principle says

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pupils were unfairly treated because Ofqual and two exam boards,

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a Q A and Edexcel were worried about grade inflation. I feel very

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angry on behalf of my students, parents and our community. I will

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not rest until the decisions that were made in August after

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everything was marked is reversed and the grading that should have

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happened happens. Tens of thousands of pupils Freesat their GCSE

:22:32.:22:37.

English last month, in the hope of getting a better grade. In Wales,

:22:37.:22:42.

papers have already been regraded on orders of the Welsh government.

:22:42.:22:48.

Ahead of Ofqual, Glenys Stacey, arrived at court this morning to

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fight the attempt to have the greats overturned. Ofqual says

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those pupils who were generously marriage -- mark in generate were

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lucky and the June boundaries were correct. The judge said there had

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been inconsistency in the marks between January and June. He said

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there was inconsistency about whether the exams had been unfairly

:23:14.:23:18.

graded or whether it had to be lived with.

:23:18.:23:23.

Plans to make internet service provider store details of all

:23:23.:23:26.

online communications in the UK have prompted more disagreements

:23:26.:23:30.

within the coalition. The Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, said

:23:30.:23:34.

the plants need a fundamental rethink. The Home Secretary,

:23:34.:23:39.

Theresa May, said the Bill should be reintroduced next year.

:23:39.:23:42.

Communications around the Cabinet table were likely to have been

:23:42.:23:46.

rather strained this morning. The Home Secretary wants a new law

:23:46.:23:51.

which sees says will help tackle terrorism. Critics say it is a

:23:51.:23:55.

snoopers' charter. The Deputy Prime Minister has said she needs to get

:23:55.:23:58.

back to the drawing board. What is causing the row? The government

:23:58.:24:03.

wants to give the police and intelligence services new powers to

:24:03.:24:07.

monitor communications. They would not be able to listen and to

:24:07.:24:10.

telephone communications without special permission, but they would

:24:10.:24:14.

be able to find out who is making and receiving calls. And the

:24:14.:24:19.

traffic would include new forms of communication such as social

:24:19.:24:27.

messaging, where male, and even on line gaming. The Lib Dems say this

:24:27.:24:33.

is potentially too intrusive and costly. They need a fundamental

:24:33.:24:36.

rethink and go back to the drawing board. This is about getting the

:24:36.:24:39.

balance right between protecting the public which is an essential

:24:39.:24:43.

duty for any government and doing it in a way which safeguards

:24:43.:24:46.

people's privacy and does not lead to billions and billions of pounds

:24:46.:24:50.

being spent. But the Home Office has not just face criticism from

:24:50.:24:57.

Nick Clegg. Today, eight committee said the proposed law would give

:24:57.:25:00.

the Home Secretary sweeping new powers to force communication

:25:00.:25:05.

companies to disclose limitless amounts of data. The Home Office

:25:05.:25:08.

ministers are saying they will look again at the scope of the proposals

:25:08.:25:14.

but a new law is necessary to tackle crime and terrorism. As we

:25:14.:25:19.

move from fixed-line phones, to mobile phones, now to the internet,

:25:19.:25:23.

the information that was previously available is not completely

:25:23.:25:28.

available now and that will grow into the future. We think there is

:25:28.:25:32.

a real need to act. Labour are critical as well. The real task for

:25:32.:25:36.

the government is to protect the country against terrorists wadding

:25:36.:25:43.

more to protect the privacy of everyone else. -- while doing more.

:25:43.:25:47.

Around �90 in year is being added to everyone's car insurance policy

:25:47.:25:53.

because of fraudulent claims for whiplash injuries. Here is our

:25:53.:25:59.

legal affairs correspondent. It is the neck injury which results

:25:59.:26:03.

from make sudden thrusting forwards and snapping back of a driver's

:26:03.:26:09.

unsupported head. It can be serious but also easily faked or

:26:09.:26:12.

exaggerated. The government believes the rise in the number of

:26:12.:26:17.

whiplash claims amounts to nothing short of a national epidemic. Last

:26:17.:26:27.
:26:27.:26:30.

year in the UK, 5070 people claimed for one of these. Between 2006 and

:26:30.:26:35.

2012, claims for personal injury caused by road traffic accidents

:26:35.:26:41.

increased by 60 %. Over the same period, the number of reported road

:26:41.:26:47.

traffic accidents fell by 20 %. Insurers estimates that whiplash

:26:47.:26:53.

claims cost the average made to policy holder �90 a year. --

:26:53.:26:56.

average motor policy holder. The government has announced how it

:26:56.:27:01.

wants to tackle the rise in claims. The decisions about whiplash, the

:27:01.:27:05.

medical assessments need to be done independently. All too often they

:27:05.:27:08.

are done by the family doctor has a relationship with the claimant or

:27:08.:27:12.

by a doctor who has a relationship with the Clement's management

:27:12.:27:16.

company. We are changing that so it will be done by an independent

:27:16.:27:22.

doctor. Some lawyers are sceptical about the government's proposals.

:27:22.:27:27.

Research that we have done has shown 70 % of people would not take

:27:27.:27:32.

their case to the small-claims court without the assistance of a

:27:32.:27:36.

solicitor because they are frightened. The government wants

:27:37.:27:41.

motor insurance premiums to come down in hard-pressed economic times.

:27:41.:27:48.

It will be keen to push forward its reforms.

:27:48.:27:50.

Overseas football players should get lessons in British culture when

:27:50.:27:55.

they come to play here. The BBC has learnt the proposal is part of the

:27:55.:28:00.

FA's response to calls from David Cameron saying more should be done

:28:00.:28:04.

to combat racism in football. Our sports editor David Bond is at

:28:04.:28:08.

Wembley. What football's authorities have

:28:08.:28:12.

been looking at since February, when David Cameron challenged them

:28:12.:28:16.

to come up with a series of measures to deal with race related

:28:16.:28:20.

controversy is, is to try and find a way of dealing with that

:28:20.:28:24.

integration of foreign players coming to the Premier League and

:28:24.:28:29.

the Football League, not only to football but British life in

:28:29.:28:33.

general. 60 % of players playing in the Premier League are from

:28:33.:28:37.

overseas. The ideas being discussed which could come in early in the

:28:37.:28:41.

new year is to try and give foreign players lessons in British cultural

:28:41.:28:46.

life and background to try and help them integrate much better. This

:28:46.:28:51.

has all come out of the Luis Suarez case which was last year, which

:28:51.:28:55.

involved the Liverpool striker who was accused and eventually banned

:28:55.:29:02.

for racially abusing Patrice Evra. He said the term he had used to

:29:02.:29:06.

insult Patrice Evra was not racist in his home country. He was

:29:06.:29:09.

eventually banned for that but I think football authorities have

:29:09.:29:13.

taken a less than out of that and they want to try and improve that

:29:13.:29:17.

integration for foreign players. The question is whether people will

:29:17.:29:22.

see it as a bit patronising. Now a look at the weather. It is

:29:22.:29:32.
:29:32.:29:37.

It is cold. We had a few spots down to-five and minus seven last night.

:29:37.:29:42.

We will have similar lows overnight tonight as well. The satellite

:29:42.:29:47.

picture shows most of us have sunny skies. Look at this area of

:29:47.:29:53.

ploughed a stretch and across the Midlands. Visibility is still down

:29:53.:30:00.

to 100 metres in some places. In Scotland, there will be quite a bit

:30:00.:30:04.

of sunshine today. The north-east will be prone to a few wintry

:30:04.:30:11.

showers. It is colder than it should be at this time of year. We

:30:11.:30:17.

have a few wintry showers clipping the Far East of Kent. That could

:30:17.:30:24.

leave icy surfaces and snow here. That will linger in Cambridgeshire,

:30:24.:30:30.

Bedfordshire, the Chilterns as well but Western England and Wales will

:30:30.:30:35.

be sunny. The fog in central areas will thicken up overnight.

:30:35.:30:39.

Difficult driving conditions, not just for this evening's rush hour

:30:39.:30:49.
:30:49.:30:50.

work meet home but for tomorrow morning's rush-hour commuter. It is

:30:50.:30:55.

going to be a rather murky start across a swathe of the Midlands

:30:55.:31:01.

with fog and poor visibility. It will linger across the North

:31:01.:31:06.

Midlands into Wednesday. Where it sticks temperatures will be below

:31:06.:31:09.

freezing. A freshening southerly breeze will bring a change to

:31:09.:31:13.

Northern Ireland as it turns cloudy here with spots of rain arriving.

:31:14.:31:23.
:31:24.:31:26.

For Thursday's weather, it will be another third -- Col day.

:31:26.:31:30.

Temperatures will struggle to get above freezing except in the south-

:31:30.:31:38.

west. It will be rather -- round above freezing in Newcastle. It is

:31:38.:31:43.

all change for Friday when we lose the cold air. We could see a risk

:31:43.:31:49.

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