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A major U-turn on the Government's plans to scrap some GCSEs as the | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
Education Secretary admits some of the reforms were a bridge too far. | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
Just five months after announcing the controversial proposals for an | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
English Baccalaureate Certificate, Michael Gove, abandons the idea and | :00:18. | :00:28. | |
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says he'll make GCSEs more rigorous instead. My idea we end the | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
competition between exam boards to offer GCSEs in core academic | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
qualifications and had just one new exam in each subject, was one | :00:37. | :00:43. | |
reform too many at this time. this Government, the words GCSE and | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
fiasco is seen to be linked. This is a humiliating climbdown. | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
The families of two police officers shot dead in Manchester arrive in | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
court as the jury is told they were lured, unarmed, to a house by Dale | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
Cregan and then killed. The veteran broadcaster, Stuart | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
Hall, vows to regain his honour as he appears in court charged with | :01:01. | :01:11. | |
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sex offences. The last two months of my life have been a living | :01:12. | :01:19. | |
nightmare. I have never gone Uncovered - widespread use of | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
banned drugs in Australian sport with links to organised crime and | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
possible match-fixing. Later on BBC London: We reveal how | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
Westminster Council is spending millions on families who've lost | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
their housing benefit. And what's it like to live long- | :01:32. | :01:42. | |
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term in this temporary Good afternoon and welcome to the | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
BBC News at One. The Education Secretary, Michael | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
Gove, is abandoning plans to scrap some GCSEs in England. He had | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
wanted to replace exams in English, Maths and Science by 2015, with a | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
new, qualification called the English Baccalaureate Certificate. | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
He told MPs in the Commons that some of his proposals had been a | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
bridge too far and he would now concentrate on reforming GCSEs in | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
England to make them more rigorous. Labour's called it a humiliating | :02:18. | :02:28. | |
climb down. Our education correspondent reports. | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
Replacing GCSEs in key subjects would suffer EBC had been key to | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
this Government's reform of exams. So had plans for each exam board | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
course subjects. One of the proposals I put forward was a | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
bridge too far. My idea we end the competition between exam boards to | :02:50. | :03:00. | |
of the GCSEs and have just one, a new exam was one reform too many. | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
Labour was quick to pounce. Under this Government, the words GCSE and | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
fiasco seemed to be linked indelibly. This is a humiliating | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
climbdown. The trouble with the Secretary of State is he thinks he | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
knows the answer to everything. Michael Gove had wanted a return to | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
an O-level type traditional qualification, but his plan for the | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
EBC was met with a storm of criticism from headteachers and | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
teacher unions, from the exam regulator and last week from a | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
strongly worded report. It has led to a climbdown for Michael Gove. | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
The Government does want GCSEs to be made tougher, with more emphasis | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
on end-of-year exams and less coursework. What the EBC | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
qualification qualification being scrapped, the Ebacc remains. This | :03:55. | :04:02. | |
headteacher welcomes the overall moves. There is a lot of confusion | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
about EBC, Ebacc. A lot of people, including many teachers had not got | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
a clear picture. Also, we did not know what the EBC was going to look | :04:13. | :04:20. | |
like. This does give us more focus on the future. The abandoned EBC | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
left out art and creative subjects. It was to be a tougher exam, sat by | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
pupils of all abilities. We were ruling out important subjects that | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
matter to our economy and creating a system that could not measure the | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
ability of every child sitting them within a single paper. I am pleased | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
Michael Gove has listened to the voices of concern. Schools were | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
braced for a major upheaval. This U-turn means many are breathing a | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
sigh of relief. For more on this, we can talk to | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
our political correspondent Vicki Young. How much of a climbdown is | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
this, and how damaging can it be to the Government? You can call it a | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
climbdown, you can call it humility, but Michael Gove wanted to go much | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
further with his reforms by scrapping GCSEs for start he has | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
not been able to do that. You can remember in the regional leaking to | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
a newspaper was seen as a return to the old system of O-levels and | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
CSC's. It ran into opposition from the Liberal Democrats and after | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
that we had the Education Select Committee coming out against the | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
changes and finally, in the exam regulators said this idea wouldn't | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
work, he was trying to go too far, too fast. He has come to this | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
conclusion himself and won't be going as far as he wants to go. | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
There will be changes. He has talked about wanting to bring | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
rigour back into the exam system. GCSEs will change at the beginning | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
of 2015, there will be less coursework, more exams. To some | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
extent he has got part of that and Michael Gove was putting on a brave | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
face saying success means moving from one mistake to mistake, with | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
no loss of enthusiasm along the way. A message to his critics he will | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
carry on with his reforming agenda. A jury's been hearing how two | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
unarmed police women were shot dead in Manchester last year after being | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
lured to a house following a call about a burglary. 29-year-old, Dale | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
Cregan, is accused of killing Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes last | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
September. He is also charged with the murders of father and son David | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
and Mark Short. He denies the charges. Our correspondent Judith | :06:27. | :06:37. | |
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Moritz is at Preston Crown Court. What was the jury told? The case | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
against Dale Cregan and nine others it was open this morning at Preston | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
Crown Court. Dale Cregan is charged with murdering the Greater | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
Manchester Police officers, Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes. He is also | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
charged with murdering a father and son, David and Mark Short. The | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
other nine defendants related to charges over the deaths of David | :07:03. | :07:09. | |
and Mark Short. The case began amid high security. The defendants were | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
brought in a police convoy. The judge told the jury it is not | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
unusual to see high-security measures in high-profile cases such | :07:17. | :07:24. | |
as this, and they shouldn't hold any of that against the defendants. | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
Standing in the dock this morning, Dale Cregan, was with the other | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
nine defendants. He stood with his arms folded, looking out at the | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
courtroom as the charges against him were read out. The jury heard | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
details of some of the background to what he is accused of. The | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
prosecution QC, Nicholas Clarke, told the jury Dale Cregan, had been | :07:49. | :07:56. | |
on the run after being involved in the murder of David and Mark Short. | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
On 18th September, Dale Cregan had waited for the two Greater | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
Manchester Police officers. He called them to his house on the | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
pretence of a burglary. He had lain in wait with a firearm he had | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
loaded, and a jury heard he shot them repeatedly with many bullets | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
until his magazine was empty. The veteran broadcaster, Stuart | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
Hall, has vowed to fight sex offence allegations and regain his | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
honour, saying his life has been a living hell since the charges were | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
brought. The 83-year-old appeared at Preston Magistrates' Court this | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
morning. He told reporters that without the love of his family he | :08:32. | :08:40. | |
would have considered taking his own life. Ed Thomas reports. | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
He is used to the cameras and attention, but not like this. For a | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
second time in four weeks, Stuart Hall was surrounded by | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
photographers at Preston magistrates courts. Inside, the | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
broadcaster faced 15 charges. He is accused of raping a 22-year-old | :08:58. | :09:06. | |
woman in 1976. And indecently assaulting 10 girls aged nine to 16 | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
between 1967 and 1986. The hearing lasted only several minutes. Inside, | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
he spoke to confirm his name, age and address. Outside he said a lot | :09:17. | :09:24. | |
more. Alas two months of my life have been a living nightmare. I | :09:24. | :09:30. | |
have never gone through so much stress in my life and I am finding | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
it difficult to sustain. Fortunately, I have a very, very | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
loving family and they are very supportive. I think, but further | :09:39. | :09:47. | |
love, I might have been constrained to take my own life. His reputation | :09:47. | :09:53. | |
goes back nearly half a century. He made his name presenting the BBC's | :09:53. | :09:59. | |
It's a knockout in the 1970s and 80s. In 2011 he was awarded an OBE | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
eat. Recently he has been a football reporter for Radio 5 Live. | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
He no longer works for the BBC while the case against him | :10:07. | :10:13. | |
continues. The district judge told Stuart Hall, the charges against | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
him were so serious, he would have to be dealt with at a Crown Court. | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
He was given bail, on condition he surrendered his passport and he had | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
no unsupervised contact with anyone under the age of 17. Stuart Hall | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
has already denied three separate charges of indecent assault at a | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
previous hearing last month. He will next appear at Preston Crown | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
Court on 1st March. David Cameron is due to join | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
European leaders in Brussels this afternoon to try to reach agreement | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
on the EU budget for 2014 to 2020. Britain and Germany are among some | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
north European countries that want further reductions in spending. But | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
some countries, including France and Italy, want to maintain it. The | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
summit's been delayed, while behind-the-scenes talks go on. We | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
can speak now to our Europe Correspondent, Matthew Price, who | :11:01. | :11:10. | |
is in Brussels for us. A delay already, do we know what the | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
problem is? One official has told me it is our for fine tuning of the | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
main proposal that it will be presented to the leaders of the | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
European Union in this building, in the coming hours. It is an | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
illustration of how difficult it is proving to be to find a compromise, | :11:28. | :11:34. | |
even before this summit begins. Make no mistake, this is a really | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
crucial stuff. What happens in his building in the next 24 hours will | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
define what the European -- European Union does and how much | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
money it has to spend on what it wants to do in the coming seven | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
years. It is of direct relevance to every single citizen living in the | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
EU, and of course to citizens who are parting with their own money in | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
the form of taxes to pay for what goes on here. The actual sum of | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
money is something in the order of less than a trillion Euros. It | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
sounds like a lot of money, but when you spread it out over several | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
years, and the 28 nations that will make up the EU when Croatia joined | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
in the summer, it is relatively small to British Government | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
spending. In terms of that argument you mentioned in the introduction | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
between countries like Britain and Germany who want a tighter, | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
efficient and more controlled budget, to rein it in as much as | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
possible. And other countries like France and Spain who want to see | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
increases, the impression I get is David Cameron and his allies are | :12:39. | :12:49. | |
winning the argument, but it is still going to be tough for them. | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
66 of HMB's 220 stores are to close in the next couple of months in a | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
move which will cost almost 1000 jobs. HMB called in the | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
administrators last month in the hope to secure the company's future. | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
The Bank of England has held interest rates at their record low | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
of 0.5%. It does not been changed for just under four years. | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
From July the Bank of England will have a new governor, Mark Connolly, | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
and today he has been defending his pay deal of �800,000 a year. He is | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
currently the central bank governor in Canada and told MPs his salary | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
will be similar to Sir Mervyn King's. | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
When he moves from Canada, he will become one of the most powerful | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
players in the British economy, as the Bank of England takes on | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
regulation of banks. Today, Mark Connolly, got a taste of things to | :13:42. | :13:48. | |
come. Thanks for coming in. MPs did not take long to talk about his pay | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
deal. You are were mortgages are hard to come by in the UK for many | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
people, including my constituents. Is that why you need an extra | :13:58. | :14:05. | |
quarter of a million a year? offer of the housing allowance, | :14:05. | :14:14. | |
which I accepted his consistent with many arrangements for | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
international executives, who moved for a period to this country, or to | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
other countries. How could he just defy a total package including | :14:23. | :14:29. | |
housing of more than 800,000 a year? My pay and pension is the | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
equivalent to the current governor. He raised the idea of broadening | :14:33. | :14:39. | |
the Bank of England remit targeting inflation of 2%. Today he made it | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
clear he Fowler -- favoured a policy review. The Chancellor said | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
he welcomed the debate. The bar for change is high, but there should be | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
that debate. A relatively short debate because I don't think | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
prolonged uncertainty is in anybody's interest. And then either | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
a read confirmation of the existing framework, or a change. He is at | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
ease in all parts of his native country, Canada. What remains to be | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
seen is how he adapts to the British climate when he starts his | :15:11. | :15:21. | |
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new job and the inevitable had wins So could there be changes ahead? | :15:23. | :15:29. | |
There is a careful, polished performance. Lots of detailed | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
answers on monetary policy. Of course he is keen to point out that | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
there are nine members of the Committee to set the interest rates | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
and other parts of monetary policy in the Bank of England. If he | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
wanted to dictate a change he may not be able to achieve it but he is | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
still taking questions. Now we are on to questions about the banks. | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
You could not listen to the technical answers without thinking | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
this is a man who thinks there is room for the Bank of England to do | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
more. That they are not yet on a path out to a strong recovery. | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
Someone with a longer list, if you like, of things that the Bank of | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
England might do to support the economy. So for example he admitted | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
matter of factly, that there may be diminishing returns to quantitative | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
easing, to the policy of pumping money into the country, it may not | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
have the Saddam Hussein effect now as it had at the start. That is not | :16:24. | :16:30. | |
something that the current Bank of England wanted to commit. Saying | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
that interest rates may be low for long time, until unemployment | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
reached a certain level. So no big change. He said he did not want to | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
overturn or have a new framework but willing to use that to a bit | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
more aggressively to support the economy. | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
And the top story: A major U-turn on the Government's | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
plan to scrap some geeses as the Education Secretary admits some | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
proposals were a bridge too far. Coming up: A future without | :17:02. | :17:09. | |
flooding. More than 60,000 at-risk homes to be protected with a new | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
multi-millionlb flood defence programme. | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
On BBC London: A woman who escaped from the fire at Lakanal House said | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
that people were advised to stay in their flats. Captured on canvass, | :17:22. | :17:30. | |
whether the Thames froze over. A now project online. | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
A court's been hearing how the duction wife of disgraced MP, Chris | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
Huhne, confided in a political journalist about how she had taken | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
the speeding noints 2003. The Political Editor of the Sunday | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
Times told the court that Vicky Pryce said that Chris Huhne | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
pressurised her into taking the points. | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
Tom Symonds is at Southwark Crown Court, what else was said? It was | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
given detail about how Vicky Pryce found out that Chris Huhne was | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
pacing the points on to her. It was said that he had nominated her as | :18:07. | :18:13. | |
the driver of the car without consultanting her. She was, it was | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
said, upset about that. Then to 2011, after the point that | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
Chris Huhne revealed to Vicky Pryce who was having an affair. | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
The journalist who was close to Vicky Pryce said she was a very | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
hurt woman that Vicky Pryce did not believe that Chris Huhne did not | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
deserve to be in a position of immense responsibility that he had | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
at the time, in other words the Energy Secretary in the Cabinet. | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
All of this is important. The jury has been told that they have to | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
decide if Vicky Pryce is the sort of woman to be coerced into taking | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
the points. That is the defence. That she was coerced. Liz bell | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
Oakeshott described Vicky Pryce this way, that she was constantly | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
on the verge of tears, that little could tip her into a tearful | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
condition, but that contrasted with the armour, as she put it, the | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
impression she gave as a successful business woman. There is more | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
evidence from Vicky Pryce later on this afternoon. Five hospitals in | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
England are facing investigations over high death rates following the | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
inquiry into failings at Stofford Hospital. This afternoon, the | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
barrister who led the inquiry is meeting relatives of some of the | :19:29. | :19:35. | |
hundreds of patients who died. Dominic Hughes is in Stafford for | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
us now. The families of those who died in the Stofford Hospital | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
scandal and those from across the NHS organisation who have been | :19:45. | :19:52. | |
assessing the Francis Report, but the scale has been clear that five | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
further hospitals, perhaps more, are to be investigated because of | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
higher than average death rates. The faces of some of the hundreds | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
of people, thought to have died after receiving poor care at | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
Stofford Hospital. Today, the friends and relatives, who have | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
campaigned to make the NHS a safer place in the wake of the Stafford | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
scandal are to meet Robert Francis, his report detailed the suffering | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
that some of the patients endured. At Stofford Hospital, itself, the | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
staff have spent the past five years working under the cloud cast | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
by the terrible stories of poor care, but they say that Staffed is | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
now -- Stafford is a different place. | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
Matrons and sisters nurses are out, walking and talking to patients. | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
Checking the chance. Whilst it is not all about audits, it is about | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
talking to people as well. Now, other NHS hospitals find that they | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
are in the spotlight. The NHS medical director is investigating | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
worrying death rates in five hospital Trusts. Colchester, | :20:52. | :20:53. | |
Tameside, Blackpool, Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals and | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
East Lancashire Hopsitals NHS Trust, have all had above average death | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
rates for two years. All of the hospitals say that they welcome the | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
investigation. The Care Quality Commission looks | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
at the mortality rates in all of the work that they do. One of the | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
things that must emerge from this is that more of this information in | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
the public domain, not just available to Government or the Care | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
Quality Commission but so that the public knows exactly what is going | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
on in our hospitals. The campaign group, Cure The NHS, | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
helped to expose the Stafford Hospital scandal. The founder, | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
Julie Bailey, whose moth are died in the hospital, warns that this is | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
not an isolated case. There are pockets of this | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
throughout the country. When we say high mortality we are talking about | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
harm. These are people that we are talking about. It is as if this | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
does not matter. That these are not real people. We have to hold people | :21:50. | :21:56. | |
to account for the failings. There is real anger that no-one has | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
ever been held responsible for the disaster that unfolloweded at | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
Stafford Hospital. The families of those who died say that they are | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
determined that will change. We have had an admission by the | :22:09. | :22:16. | |
Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, that it is still far from clear who is | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
responsible for preventing another Staff yord Hospital scandal from | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
developing. That is something that the families here will want to | :22:23. | :22:29. | |
watch out for. Making sure that the politicians keep up with their | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
words of making the hospitals more transparent. | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
A year-long investigation has u uncovered widespread use of illegal | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
drugs in a range of professional sports in Australia it says that | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
organised crime is involved in the doping. The Anti-Doping Agency say | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
it is should serve as a wake-up call to governing bodies from | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
around the world. Chris Bryant has this report from Sydney N a country | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
that loves sports and hates cheats, the allegations of widespread | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
doping have produced what many are kaurling the blackest day in | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
Australian sporting history. The Anti-Doping Agency allege that the | :23:08. | :23:14. | |
use of performance hen enhancing drugs is fas it Tateed by doctors, | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
sports fists and coaches and organised crime. Some athletes are | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
using substances not yet approved for human use. In some cases entire | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
teams have been doped. The findings are shocking. They | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
will disgust Australian sports fans. The work that the Australian Crime | :23:32. | :23:38. | |
Commission has done, has found that the use of prohibited substances, | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
including peptides, hormones and illicit drugs is widespread amongst | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
professional athletes. Multiple criminal offences have | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
allegedly been committed. Athletes who have used illegal substances | :23:52. | :23:59. | |
have been urged to come forward. Standing here today with some of | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
the CEOOs with Australia's sport is a statement to those who seek to | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
ruin sport if you want to dope and cheat, we will catch you. If you | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
want to fix a match, we will catch you. | :24:10. | :24:17. | |
For a country at the forefront of the global anti-doping campaign, | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
the accusations have been shocking. This is the blackest day in | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
Australian sport. Because criminal investigations are | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
underway, the authorities have not revealed which athletes or teams | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
are involved. So tonight a cloud of suspicious hangs over all of | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
Australian sport and fans are left asking, which of their heroes they | :24:37. | :24:45. | |
can trust? Ministers have approved the construction of almost 100 new | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
flood defences across England, that will offer better protection to | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
65,000 homes it is hoped that the �300 million investment will bring | :24:54. | :25:01. | |
peace of mind to the homeowners. Jeremy Cooke reports. Floods, they | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
are destructive, expensive, and frequent. With the extreme recent | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
weather, new flood defences have been put to the test an passed. | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
Communities from Wakefield to Upton on Severn, saved from the rising | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
water. Now the Government says more businesses and home hofpls will get | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
protection. 156,000 spropts a lot of properties. | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
A significant number of people who can go to work, knowing that the | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
house will be safe when they come home and can plan to develop for | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
the future. Building flood defences is an | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
expensive business, but the experience has shown, once the | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
investment is made, it is very likely to pay off. | :25:44. | :25:52. | |
Here in Leeds it means a new � 50 million project. Making this weer | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
movable to control the water flow, but Leeds has not been flooded for | :25:56. | :26:02. | |
decades. So why is this a priority? There will be more thation -- that | :26:02. | :26:08. | |
you can spend the money on. We are taking a priority approach to it. | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
Investing where we can get the benefit. | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
So, on the Somerset levels they are not a priority. Farmland and | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
businesses are under water after months and there is no money | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
announced to help here. The locals are increasingly desperate. | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
Farmers are getting desperate and I know that the householders are, who | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
have had their houses inundated. We need someone to take account for us. | :26:34. | :26:40. | |
Do you feel abandoned? Totally. The economics of flood defences | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
look good. It is calculated at every �1 spent saves �8 in the | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
future, but no everywhere can be protected. Some communities will | :26:49. | :26:59. | |
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remine at risk. They are life-like robotic patients. | :27:00. | :27:06. | |
They are used by doctors and nurses who want to practise their skills. | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
The staff can film themselves treating the robots to see how they | :27:10. | :27:20. | |
:27:20. | :27:20. | ||
How are you? John is sick. He's been in a car crash. He is | :27:20. | :27:22. | |
struggling to breathe. These doctors are trying to figure out | :27:22. | :27:29. | |
what to do. If they can't, no-one dies, all medical students train on | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
dummies but these robots are different. They are controlled by | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
computer to react to treatment, second by second. | :27:35. | :27:41. | |
Although we are taught rigidly from protocols and books, what to do in | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
certain situations, it is different with the equipment in the hands and | :27:45. | :27:49. | |
people talking to you and the machines making noises. It is an | :27:49. | :27:53. | |
added stress. So this is a great way to run through a real-life | :27:54. | :27:57. | |
scenario. There are other man Quinns of this | :27:57. | :28:02. | |
family too. There is a child and this is Reg. Over here, a pregnant | :28:02. | :28:07. | |
woman and even a baby. It is cutting-edge technology. It is not | :28:07. | :28:13. | |
the only new technology here. In unseen service corridors, robots | :28:13. | :28:17. | |
are on patrol. Picking up and delivering the teas and the coffees. | :28:17. | :28:22. | |
They are employed to sort out the mail and they have revolutionised | :28:22. | :28:27. | |
the hospital's pharmacy. Cutting out human errors and allowing the | :28:27. | :28:29. | |
staff to concentrate on the patients. | :28:29. | :28:35. | |
One of the first things we have seen is the freeing up of staff. So | :28:35. | :28:39. | |
some routine task can be done safely while the robots are freeing | :28:39. | :28:44. | |
people up, allowing them to spend time on the patient facing the | :28:44. | :28:47. | |
activity. That is what we are achieving here. | :28:47. | :28:52. | |
Back in the virtual A&E, John's lung has collapsed, but the doctors | :28:52. | :28:56. | |
should be able to save his life. They should be able to save many | :28:56. | :28:59. | |
more, thanks to this training in the future. | :28:59. | :29:02. | |
the future. Now the weather with Philip. | :29:02. | :29:06. | |
Sophie, thank you very much. I will try to make it through in | :29:06. | :29:10. | |
the next two-and-a-half mince! The weather is gradually improving. The | :29:10. | :29:15. | |
wind has been a feature. Lighter now. Towards the west a change in | :29:15. | :29:18. | |
hand. A wet morning in Northern Ireland. The western fringes of | :29:18. | :29:22. | |
Scotland too. Here is the reason for it. Cloud coming in from the | :29:22. | :29:26. | |
Atlantic. That will make itself known across the western parts of | :29:26. | :29:33. | |
the British Isles. The rain here increasing. Winter scenes across | :29:33. | :29:39. | |
the high ground. Over the east, some sunshine, but | :29:39. | :29:43. | |
then becoming hazy. There may abconversion of rain to snow in the | :29:43. | :29:47. | |
high grounds of Scotland. There may be a flake on the M8 but not | :29:47. | :29:51. | |
amounting to much. A similar prospect in the high grounds of | :29:51. | :29:55. | |
Wales. Ahead of that, showers out of Liverpool Bay, down to the | :29:55. | :29:58. | |
Midlands. It could get into northern London, | :29:58. | :30:02. | |
but the main reaction is out to the west. There will be rain across the | :30:02. | :30:09. | |
south-west. Even this far south across the moors, there may be | :30:09. | :30:14. | |
winter scenes, but over the west of Cornwall, the wind strong through | :30:14. | :30:20. | |
the evening and overnight. For a time there could be gusts up to | :30:20. | :30:23. | |
50mph. The rain fizzling as we move to the east. | :30:23. | :30:27. | |
The greatest concern is not about the rain or the snow but as the | :30:27. | :30:31. | |
skies clear, the sun comes up, north wist Scotland, Wales, parts | :30:31. | :30:36. | |
of the Midlands, the south-west, you may have a problem with ice. | :30:36. | :30:39. | |
The remnants of the front through Friday, easing towards the east. | :30:39. | :30:43. | |
Again, a flake of something perhaps but nothing to write home about. | :30:43. | :30:48. | |
Then a jolly picture there. Much of Scotland, western England and Wales, | :30:48. | :30:52. | |
a bit of sunshine there. A feature coming in over the shoulder, that | :30:52. | :30:59. | |
will be dom innocent on Saturday, it is one of those day -- that will | :30:59. | :31:03. | |
be the dominant feature on Saturday. Then, and this is the one that is | :31:03. | :31:08. | |
concerning me, the weekend starts off as described, staying on the | :31:08. | :31:13. | |
cold side. There is a risk of snow on Sunday and indeed on into Monday. | :31:13. | :31:18. | |
Initially the threat, we think, there is some uncertainty, will be | :31:18. | :31:21. | |
found over the northern parts of British Isles. That will be snow to | :31:21. | :31:25. | |
lower levels. In the south a wet old day. Then the conversion to the | :31:25. | :31:31. | |
south in time for the rush-hour on Monday. If it matters to you, keep | :31:31. | :31:36. |