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A sharp rise in the number of people who were born abroad now | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
living in England and Wales - the latest census shows it's risen by | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
63% in the past decade to 7.5 million - many from India, Poland | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
and Pakistan. An eighth night of protests in | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
Belfastafter a policewoman narrowly escapes from a petrol bombed car. | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
The police say it was attempted murder. | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
The Government sets out its plans to allow same-sex marriage, but it | :00:29. | :00:39. | |
will still be illegal in the Church of England and Church in Wales. - | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
$$NEWLINE It's revealed that Nelson Mandela is suffering from a lung | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
infection, but he's said to be responding to treatment in hospital. | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
The British bank HSBC agrees to pay the US authorities a record �1.2 | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
billion to settle money laundering claims. | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
Later on BBC London, new figures suggest there are 4,000 fewer Met | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
police officers now than two years ago. Protests at stations around | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
the capital over the above- inflation fare rises planned for | :01:05. | :01:15. | |
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Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. The number of | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
foreign-born residents in England and Wales has risen by almost four | :01:22. | :01:32. | |
million in the past ten years. -- three million in the past ten years. | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
13% of the current population - that's 7.5 million people - were | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
born abroad, many in India, Poland and Pakistan. The figures from the | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
latest census show the total number of people living in England and | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
Wales is up 7% to just over 56 million and more than half that | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
rise is due to migration. Mike Sergeant has been taking a look at | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
the figures. The changing face of England and | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
Wales as revealed by the most detailed and comprehensive of | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
surveys - it's the story of the rapid social change of the past | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
decade. The overall population numbers from the 2011 census were | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
published earlier this year, but today they released much more | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
detail, and it's a fascinating snapshot of increasing diversity in | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
England and Wales. The census reveals that 7.5 million people | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
were born abroad, with almost 3 million arriving in the past ten | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
years and a fall in those describing their ethnic group as | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
white-British. We have had a fall in the white-British, so 80% of the | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
population declared themselves as white-British, so it's still the | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
majority ethnic group, but that was a fall of seven percentage points | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
since 2001. The impact of migration is clearly visible in the census. | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
Boston and Lincolnshire has experienced one of the sharpest | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
increases from people coming from Poland. In this Latvian shop they | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
have seen some changes. Nine years ago it was maybe a couple of | :03:00. | :03:07. | |
hundred. Now is more than I think 3,000 in this area, and the big | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
changes in the last three, four years... The religious makeup of | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
England and Wales is changing too. There were 33 million Christians in | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
2011, a drop of four million in ten years. The Muslim population | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
increased to 2.7 million. The number with no religion at all | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
almost doubled to 14 million. Norwich had fewer worshippers than | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
anywhere else. It just goes with the territory of what's going on in | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
the world, isn't it? Not a lot of people believe these days. Some | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
days and that are spent shopping, I suppose, nowaday, which is the next | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
big religion or football, I suppose. You can have faith in a lot of | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
other things apart from just one deity. But in Norwich Cathedral, | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
they disputed the idea that this was the least religious place in | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
England and Wales. It's really hard to square the results of the census | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
with what we see here on the ground in Norwich. We've got a church | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
around every corner, and most of them are doing very well. Many of | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
them are growing. Here in this cathedral, we're seeing literally | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
hundreds of people through the doors every day this month. Another | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
eye catching statistic is that in London, white British people are | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
now in the minority for the first time, more evidence of just how | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
rapidly parts of England and Wales have been changing. | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
Let's speak to our Home Editor, Mark Easton, who's at Newham in | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
east London. Really, fascinating figures. Tell us more about what | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
show about our society? I want to pick up on what Mike was saying at | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
the end of his report. London, the capital of the United Kingdom, a | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
majority of people now living in the capital do not describe | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
themselves as white-British, and the reason I'm here in Newham is | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
that only one person in six in this East London borough would describe | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
themselves as white-British. Now, of course, it's a story that really | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
is a London story in a way. It's very much an international city. | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
Beyond London, there is still the same sort of trend. We're seeing a | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
reduction in the number of people who say they're white-British, but | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
it's not anywhere near the same extent. What we are seeing, though, | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
is the impact of that decade of high levels of migration from the | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
Indian subcontinent and from Poland - half a million Poles now living | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
in England and Wales, but it's worth remembering that this is not | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
just a sort of British story. This is happening in many countries | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
across Western Europe. In fact, we've got fewer people born abroad | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
as a proportion here than they have in countries like Sweden, and we're | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
about the same level as countries like Germany and France and the | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
Netherlands, so, yes, it's a fascinating decade of social change, | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
but it's one that's not just happening in this country. It's | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
happening right across Western Europe. Mark Easton, thank you very | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
much. Police in Northern Ireland are | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
hunting a gang who petrol bombed a car while an officer was sat inside. | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
She managed to escape unharmed, but police are treating it as attempted | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
murder. It's the latest incident in on-going protests against a | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
decision not to fly the Union flag over Belfast City Hall, except on | :06:08. | :06:16. | |
designated days. Here's our Ireland correspondent, Mark Simpson. | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
There's no end in sight to the trouble in Belfast, and in some | :06:19. | :06:25. | |
parts of the city, it's getting worse. In east Belfast last night, | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
a female police officer was attacked in this car. A gang of | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
hooded men threw a petrol bomb inside the vehicle while she was | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
still inside. She somehow managed to escape. Police said it was | :06:39. | :06:47. | |
attempted murder. This morning, the clearup began in the area. Local | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
people were shocked about what happened here last night. Mortified, | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
especially going on around here, like, you know, and all that | :06:55. | :07:01. | |
trouble about the flag and all - just a nightmare. Hopefully it will | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
fizzle out, and it's hard to know exactly what's going on behind the | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
scenes, really. I don't want it to continue, and I don't approve of | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
the police getting it either, but I think the Union flag should be put | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
back up again. Belfast City Hall decided last week to stop flying | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
the Union flag every day. Loyalists have been protesting ever since. | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
Some of the demonstrations have been peaceful. Others haven't. | :07:26. | :07:32. | |
Politicians from all of the parties at store month have called for the | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
vile -- Stormont have called for the violence to stop. Those | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
involved aren't listening. Now the issue has reached Westminster. This | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
afternoon the Government will make a statement in the House of Commons. | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
Those who seek to defend the Union flag do no service to their cause | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
by engaging in riot, violence and disorder. I think it's disgraceful | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
what's been happening. Historically, most Protestants in Northern | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
Ireland have wanted to remain in the United Kingdom, while most | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
Catholics prefer a united Ireland. The results of the latest census | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
published today indicate a 5% decrease in the Protestant | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
population here. 48% are Protestant. 45% are Catholic. Whatever the | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
statistics, the most immediate concern of politicians is to try to | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
bring peace to the streets. The trouble has now been going on for | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
more than a week. Mark is in Belfast now. What's that | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
latest, Mark? Well, I've just been handed the very latest statistics | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
from the police, Sophie, and I have to say they make for very grim | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
reading here in what's supposed to be the new Belfast. As we know, | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
it's eight days since the trouble began. 29 police officers have now | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
been injured. 38 people arrested, 26 people charged, including three | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
13-year-old boys - three 13-year- old boys! I have to say, though, | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
the police have managed to contain the violence, and let's be honest - | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
it's nowhere near as bad as Belfast used to be, but - and it's a big | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
"but" - the longer this violence goes on, the more dangerous the | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
situation here becomes. Mark, thank you very much. | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
In the last hour, the Government has been giving more details of its | :09:10. | :09:19. | |
plans to allow same-sex marriages in church. Religious organisations, | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
like the Quakers, which want to conduct them, will be allowed to. | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
But same-sex marriages will still be illegal in the Church of England | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
and the Church in Wales. Let's speak to our political | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
correspondent, Norman Smith. Tell us more about these proposals | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
because no church is ever going to be forced to conduct a same-sex | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
marriage, is it? The reality is although the Culture Secretary has | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
stressed the Government's determination to press ahead with | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
its plans for gay marriage, she's unveiled a series of legal | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
concessions, the practical concessions of which will be to | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
severely curtail the number of churches or religious | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
establishments available to same- sex couples to get married in, and | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
this was in response to criticism from many of our own backbenchs | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
that some churches might face a legal challenge and be forced to | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
hold same-sex ceremonies against their will. Now, the quadruple lock, | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
as she called it, consists of a commitment by the Government to | :10:12. | :10:18. | |
make it illegal for the Church of England and the Church in Wales to | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
hold same-sex ceremonies on their premises. Secondly, she said it | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
would not be possible for individual Ministers or individual | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
priests to hold same-sex ceremonies on their church even if they were | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
in favour of such ceremonies unless their church as a whole had | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
explicitly agreed to that, and thirdly, she was going to amend the | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
Equalities Act so that people could not take out discrimination cases | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
against the church for not holding same-sex ceremonies and lastly on | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
the face of the bill is going to be written a Declaration by the | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
Government that no faith will be forced to hold such ceremony | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
against their will. The upshot of that it seems to me is only a very, | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
very small number of churches or establishments are likely to be | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
available to same-sex couples for wedding ceremonies. Now, that is a | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
series of concessions which will undoubtedly appease many of her | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
critics, particularly on the backbenches. The danger is it will | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
anger many supporters of same-sex marriage who will feel she's given | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
far too much ground. Thank you very much. | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
Britain's biggest international bank, HSBC, is being fined a record | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
�1.2 billion to settle allegations of money laundering. Prosecutors in | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
America say drug cartels, terrorists and countries under | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
international sanctions like Iran and North Korea have laundered | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
money through the bank. HSBC said it was profoundly sorry for what it | :11:34. | :11:44. | |
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called its "past mistakes". Simon Gompertz reports. HSBC's | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
shame is to be faced with the biggest fine ever imposed in the | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
United States for banking misconduct. In Mexico in the grip | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
of drug gangs, its operation was a key target of investigations. HSBC | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
had inadequate controls to prevent drug proceeds being syphoned out of | :12:02. | :12:08. | |
the country. This man worked in HSBC's US compliance department | :12:08. | :12:16. | |
between 2010 and 2011. My job was to find suspicious activity, report | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
it, stop it and make sure the bank was complying with the Bank Secrecy | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
Act and the other laws of the United States of America. And how | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
much suspicious activity did you find? A lot. HSBC's failings | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
included allowing �4.3 billion to be shipped from Mexico to the US | :12:37. | :12:43. | |
without adequate checks, to have let customers complete thousands of | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
transactions with Iran despite American restrictions and to have | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
handled suspicious travellers' cheques, thought to have originated | :12:50. | :12:56. | |
in Russia. In Washington hearings in July, a senior HSBC figure, | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
David Bagley, resigned after admitting the bank had been lax. | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
HSBC has fallen short of our own expectations... Today HSBC said it | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
was profoundly sorry and was spending hundreds of millions of | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
pounds overhauling its controls across the world. The shock is that | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
one of Europe's biggest banks could have allowed itself to have become | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
tainted by association with drug profits and money laundering. The | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
US Senate Committee which investigated said that HSBC had | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
laid itself open to becoming a conduit for drug kingpins and rogue | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
nations. It's been an embarrassing week for | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
UK-based international banks. Standard Chartered was fined | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
heavily yesterday for violating US sanctions on Iran. | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
Three men have been arrested in connection with the manipulation of | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
a key interest rate that determines how much banks charge to lend money. | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
The men from Surrey and Essex, who are aged between 33 and 47, are the | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
first to be arrested following the Libor scandal. The men, who are all | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
British nationals, have been taken to a police station in London for | :14:03. | :14:09. | |
questioning. Around 150,000 Northern Rock asset | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
management customers will receive hundreds of pounds each in | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
compensation owing to mistakes made in paperwork. Bank staff failed to | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
include key details on annual statements about loans. The �270 | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
million for the refunds will come from the taxpayer as this section | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
of the bank has been owned by the Government since 2008. | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
Doctors in South Africa say Nelson Mandela is suffering from a | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
recurring lung infection, but they say he's responding well to | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
treatment. The former South African president has been in hospital for | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
four days. Our correspondent is in Johannesburg for us. So finally, | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
some information about what he is suffering from. Do we know much | :14:48. | :14:57. | |
Not a great deal more now but after these anxious days of having | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
nothing to go on in terms of medical information, we do know two | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
crucial things. The first is that he has a lung infection of some | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
sort. We do not know if it is pneumonia or something less severe. | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
We know this was something he had a couple of years ago. If he was | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
brought to hospital in Johannesburg. He responded to treatment then, | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
recovered and went home. We know he is responding to treatment so that | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
is very encouraging news for the millions of people who have been | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
waiting anxiously for news of Mr Mandela. He has been responding to | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
treatment and now we will have to wait and find out what will happen | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
next. How long will he stay in hospital, will he be able to return | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
home to his home village, a big journey for a 94-year-old man to | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
make. I have been out on the streets in Johannesburg this | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
morning and people are following this news very carefully indeed. It | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
is interesting when you talk to South Africans about Nelson Mandela, | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
the one word which comes up every time his father. If people see him | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
not just as the symbolic father of the nation, but almost in an | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
intimate family way, they see him as a man who is closely bound up | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
with their lives. There is a great deal of anxiety here but also a | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
sense that he is 94, he is frail and people are realistic about the | :16:21. | :16:28. | |
months, days, years to come. Thank you. | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
Our top story this lunchtime: The number of foreign-born people in | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
England and Wales has risen by nearly 3 million over the last | :16:36. | :16:44. | |
decade to 7.5 million. I am at Wembley where English | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
football authorities have come up with a new plan to tackle the | :16:47. | :16:54. | |
recent spate of race related controversy Later on BBC London. | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
How Londoners can help those sleeping on the streets this winter. | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
$$NEWLINEAnd the once failing school that's turned itself around | :17:00. | :17:10. | |
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and helped inspire new teachers Armoured vehicles are proposing | :17:14. | :17:21. | |
this -- patrolling streets of Cairo this lunchtime. Overnight, at least | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
nine people were hurt when gunmen opened fire on opposition | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
protesters camped out in Tahrir Square. In a moment, we will speak | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
to our correspondent Jon Leyne who is with supporters of the President. | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
First, we can go to George Alagiah who is outside the presidential | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
palace in Cairo. I am outside the presidential | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
palace, but you cannot see it because of this wall. It is about | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
10 ft high. It was erected a few days ago when a previous protest | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
turned nasty. Behind that, in theory the President is holed up | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
trying to govern this country. Protesters are just beginning to | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
arrive here for what promises to be a much of many thousands. The | :18:07. | :18:14. | |
graffiti has already started. Some is unhelpful the written in English, | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
this war will fall. Another one says, this wall will not protect | :18:18. | :18:24. | |
you. The protesters here will be opponents of the government. They | :18:25. | :18:34. | |
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are the ones who want the President not to have this referendum... The | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
draft constitution is not one which will take the country forward, but | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
backwards. The people here will be opponents of the government. The | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
supporters of the government a meeting elsewhere, preparing for | :18:48. | :18:55. | |
their rival march. And my colleague Jon Leyne is with them. | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
Yes, supporters of the President have been gathering here throughout | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
the day and we are expecting bigger crowds in a couple of hours' time | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
when people finish work. The posters here, one of them says vote | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
Yes for the new constitution, for your son's' future. No mention of | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
daughters. Another one says read the constitution, think about it | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
and then vote yes. We found people selling copies of the constitution | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
to cars and traffic jams. They are people who would usually be selling | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
paper tissues and other knick- knacks. That is one side of how | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
interesting people are in this. It is an interesting cross section of | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
supporters. It is not only members of the Muslim Brotherhood, the | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
president's own Islamist movement, there are members of hardline | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
Islamist groups and that is an important won to note because that | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
shows the pressure the President is under not to compromise with the | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
Liberals. He is under pressure to maintain an even harder line, to | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
rule this country from a more Islamist prospective. The | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
supporters see this as a crucial show and test of the strength of | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
their support. Thank you. I do not know if you can | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
hear but there was a lot of banging going on. That is because there is | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
a little gap between this concrete wall and the building there and the | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
protesters are trying to get through to it. You can probably see | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
those metal sheets being pulled apart that. The role of the | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
military is going to be crucial today. Yesterday, the President | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
gave the military power to arrest civilians. That was a controversial | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
move. How they execute those powers could well decide how this day pans | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
out. A crucial day for both sides for the government supporters and | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
also for the opponents who will be here. Back to you. | :20:56. | :21:05. | |
Thank you. An alliance of pupils, teaching unions and schools from | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
England is mounting a legal challenge to last summer's GCSE | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
English results. They argue that changing the grade boundaries for | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
June's exams was unfair and left thousands of students with lower | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
grades than they expected. One of the examining boards involved, | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
Ofqual, said it would rigorously defend its decision. | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
Never before have the results of a national exam ended up in court. | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
George Green's School in London is one of a hundred and 50 schools in | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
England challenging this summer's GCSE English results. The marks | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
needed to get a good grade where race halfway through the year, | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
meaning some pupils expecting a C grade got a D grade. Jack Coote was | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
one of them. He almost lost his apprenticeship that his employer to | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
come on on condition that he we sat the exam. It is really unfair. I | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
have to retake an exam which I have already passed and it is not just | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
me, it is everybody else all over the country. The principle says | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
pupils were unfairly treated because Ofqual and two exam boards, | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
a Q A and Edexcel were worried about grade inflation. I feel very | :22:14. | :22:20. | |
angry on behalf of my students, parents and our community. I will | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
not rest until the decisions that were made in August after | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
everything was marked is reversed and the grading that should have | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
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 | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
fight the attempt to have the greats overturned. Ofqual says | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
those pupils who were generously marriage -- mark in generate were | :22:56. | :23:04. | |
lucky and the June boundaries were correct. The judge said there had | :23:04. | :23:10. | |
been inconsistency in the marks between January and June. He said | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
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. |