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A 16-year-old girl is stabbed to death on a bus in Birmingham on her | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
way to school. The police say that the attack was sporadic and quick. | :00:15. | :00:21. | |
A manhunt is underway, the public are told not to approach the | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
suspect, who may be armed. The family are distressed and | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
distraught by the news of the events. | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
There is no magic money tree, says the Prime Minister. He insists that | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
the Government will stuck stick to the plan for cutting the deficit. | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
The perils of too much processed meat it increases the risk of early | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
death. Calls for up to half of the UK's | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
deer population to be culled as the numbers soar. | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
And we are telling you how society has moved on in the last 40 years. | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
On BBC London: A cycle Crossrail for the capital and more segregated | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
lanes, as the Mayor unveils plans for the next ten years. | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
And tens of thousands of pounds worth of bags are stolen in a smash | :01:02. | :01:12. | |
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Good afternoon. Welcome to the BBC News at one. The | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
police have launched a manhunt after a 16-year-old schoolgirl was | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
stabbed to death on her way to school in Birmingham this morning. | :01:31. | :01:37. | |
The attack happened after 7.30am on a bus in the Edgbaston areas of the | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
city. The detectives are looking for a black man in his late teens | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
or early '20s. They have warned the public to be vigilant. | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
Sophie, this is where the bus- stoped this morning. On board the | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
police found the body of a 16-year- old who had been stabbed to death. | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
In the last hour or so, the police cordon has been lifted, the road | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
has reopened. The focus has moved from the bus-stop, really to this | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
entire city. The police are searching for a man that they | :02:08. | :02:16. | |
describe as very dangerous. Rush hour, just after 7.30am. The | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
bus driver called 999, reporting a stabbing on board his double-decker. | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
Ambulance crews tried to resis Tate the 16-year-old, she had been | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
travelling to school on the bus but they were unable to save her. | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
It appears to have been a sporadic and a very quick attack on the girl | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
in question. As you can appreciate the family | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
are extremely distressed and distraught by the news of today's | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
events. Clearly there will be a lot of friends at the school, a lot of | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
teachers equally distressed by the news of this morning's events. | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
It is understood that the schoolgirl boarded the bus a few | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
minutes before the attack. Forensic officers searched the vehicle, the | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
West Midlands Police launched a major man mustn't. | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
-- manhunt. Don't a-- don't approach this male. | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
He is believed to be dangerous. Contact the police immediately so | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
we can make the relevant information in relation to that | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
individual. The police say that the suspect was | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
black. In his late teens or early 20s. | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
He is wearing a dark-coloured trousers with a dark hooded top | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
with a tiger or a leopard motif on the back of his hooded top it is | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
possible that he has either a band agenda around his right hand or he | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
may be carying a small white bag in his right hand that is what we know | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
from the witnesses who we have spoken to at the scene. | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
This lunch time, the bus was taken away under police escort for more | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
forensic tests. Officers stress that this investigation is still in | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
its very early stages. So, Birmingham is on high alert, | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
really, this lunch time. Anybody who has seen anything who they | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
think may have seen the suspect, anyone on that bus what may have | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
information is urged to phone a special incident room hot line. The | :04:13. | :04:23. | |
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Any updates that we get during the day, we will give you. | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
Thank you. David Cameron says that there are | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
signs that the Government's economic policies are beginning to | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
work N a speech in West Yorkshire, he acknowledged there is a long way | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
to go, but says he is determined to stick to the plan for cutting the | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
UK's deficit. Since day one, the coalition has | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
stuck to its plan to get the deficit down. Cut spending, | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
increase some taxes, but plan A has not stopped the UK economy from | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
bumbling along. This is an area smack in the middle of the country. | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
Critics say it is one of hundreds of change, where there is proof of | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
a need for change, a plan B, but David Cameron has gone to West | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
Yorkshire to say "no". There are some who think we don't | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
have to take the tough difficult decisions to deal with the debts. | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
They say that the focus on deaf sit reduction is damaging growth. That | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
what we need to do is to spend more and borrow more. It is as if they | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
think that there is some magic money tree. Let me tell you a plain | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
truth, there isn't. But just as the Tory Prime Minister | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
was refusing to budge, his land Business Secretary was saying think | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
about it. What is wrong with plan A? Nothing, | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
we could pursue what I have often called plan A plus. Vince Cable | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
explained that. He said that it is time to go further, to ask if the | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
Government should borrow more to pay for new houses, road and rail | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
it is a break from Government policy and music to the ears of the | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
Labour Party. The cracks are beginning to show if | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
Vince Cable is beginning to realise that we need to kick-start the | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
economy, that would be a good thing, but we need the rest of the Cabinet | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
to realise that David Cameron and George Osborne's economic strategy | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
has failed. There is no doubt that firing up | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
factories across the country is taking longer than he thought, but | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
the speech was about sticking to the plan, not changing. | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
The debate about getting the UK economy on its feet has been raging | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
since day one. It is no secret there are some on both sides who | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
want to see the Chancellor going further. Especially on borrowing, | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
but we are unlikely to see a significant change in policy when | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
the Budget comes. Hugh Pym is here now. So, the Prime | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
Minister is saying that there are signs that the plan is working. Jou | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
outline the science, what is happening? There are lots of | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
economic indicators about the health of the economy. Let's have a | :07:05. | :07:12. | |
look at a few. The shares, the FTSE 100 index in London. That recently | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
reached a five-year high. That is partly to do the national factors | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
and the world economy. Jobs are going up. Total employments with up | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
by nearly 600,000 over last year. So that is another positive | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
indicator, but looking at the overall economy, the GDP, that was | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
down in the last three months of last year. The economy is | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
contracting in the current first quarter it is touch and go if it | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
goes down again. One thing that the Government has said a lot, that the | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
deficit is down 25%, that could change soon, couldn't it? Yes, that | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
25% figure is taking the last year of Labour's term in office and the | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
last full financial year. The current year we are not at the end | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
of and borrowing is up. If that is confirmed as being up, that will | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
knock the 25% figure out of the way. We will own know in the Budget, | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
though. Now, let's get more from our | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
Political Correspondent Norman Smith in Keith league in West | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
Yorkshire where the Prime Minister was giving the speech. The message | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
from him is clear, there is no turning back? Yes, I have to say, | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
although I did not spy a handbag anywhere near the Prime Minister, | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
handbagging is what he intended to give critics on both wings of the | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
coalition, deliberately and twice. Echoing the refrain of | :08:39. | :08:46. | |
PROBLEM WITH SOUND. Saying that the Tory right-wingers | :08:46. | :08:52. | |
demanding tax cuts, that they cannot be funded. Then the question | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
of Vince Cable and capital spending, saying there is no magic money tree. | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
Insisting to stick with plan A, but in this month's budget there is | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
precious little room for manoeuvre so. David Cameron may be signed up | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
to plan A but politically, he has few alternatives. | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
Apologies for the break up on the line there. | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
There is evidence that eating too much processed meat can lead to an | :09:20. | :09:27. | |
early death. Researchers say that the salts and the chemicals used to | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
preserve meat like bacon, ham ansd salami may heighten the risk of | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
heart disease and cancer. Saying a daily limit of a rasher of bacon | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
could prevent thousands of death as year. | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
People who eat a lot of processed meat like bacon, ham ansd salami, | :09:46. | :09:52. | |
tend to have unhealthy lifestyles. More likely to smoke and to eat | :09:52. | :09:58. | |
fewer fruit and vegetables. A study takes the factors into account, but | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
it finds that the more than processed meat someone eats, the | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
greater the chance of early death. It is likely to do that this is | :10:07. | :10:13. | |
because of the sat rated fat and salt content. This is linked to the | :10:13. | :10:19. | |
bad cholesterol and too much salt linked to high blood pressure. | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
Those who eat more than two sausages and a piece of bacon | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
increase of risk of dying by heart disease by 70% and diing from | :10:28. | :10:34. | |
cancer I -- cancer by 11%. The Government recommends eating no | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
more than 07 grams of red and processed meat a day, but some | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
cancer experts to avoid eating processed meat all together. | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
The research shows that eating any amount of processed meat increasing | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
the risk of bowl cancer and as there is no nutritional need for us | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
to eat this meat, the advice is to cut it out whenever possible. No | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
include it as part of the diet. The study is further evidence that | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
eating too much processed meat like ham, sausages or bacon can be bad | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
for your health, but many here today shopping, seem to think it is | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
a case of everything in moderation. Eating it in proportion it is not a | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
big thing. So you have a kipper in your bag? | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
believe that oily fish is good for you, and bacon bad. Although not as | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
bad as all that We have young kids in the house it | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
is obviously, it is not like we have a cooked breakfast, but | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
everyone could cut down. authors of the study argue that 3% | :11:40. | :11:46. | |
of premature deaths could be prevented if people ate20 grams of | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
processed meat a day. One small slice of bacon. | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
Labour has called for a crackdown on benefit payments to migrants | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
from the EU. Yvette Cooper says that action is needed to make the | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
system fairer. Admitting that Labour should have been tougher on | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
immigration while in power with tighter controls on Eastern | :12:06. | :12:12. | |
Europeans coming to the UK. Iain Watson joins me now. | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
Immigration now is far more of an issue of concern to people. The | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
economy is not booming as it was, perhaps for many years of the last | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
Labour government. After the strong showing by UKIP in the recently | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
Eastleigh by-election would have been an issue. Parties are falling | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
over themselves to say that they are taking the concerns seriously. | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
Labour have apologised for past mistakes, saying that they did not | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
do enough to get eastern immigration under control. Having | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
the options of posing work restrictions, which they did not do, | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
but also saying that they should have introduced a points-based | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
system more quickly. Then the apologies are out of the way, and | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
so they move on to the policy. Yvette Cooper said that Labour | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
wanted to tackle illegal immigration more. Cutting down on | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
the abuse of short-term student visas but said that Labour would | :13:06. | :13:12. | |
begin to, if you like, tighten the e giblity for new markets coming | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
here, whether looking to claim benefits. A concern is that with | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
the influx of the Romanian and the Bulgarian migrants in the New Year, | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
there are worries that there could be benefit tourism here. She is | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
saying if you tighten the system, that you ensure people are here for | :13:29. | :13:35. | |
some time before claiming benefits. We are not going to enter an arms | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
race on immigration rhetoric with the Government. We need measures | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
that recognise most people come here want to work and contribute, | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
but there are changes that the Government could make to make it | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
clear and to clarify that jobseeker's allowance will not be | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
available when people first arrive. What the Government are saying is | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
that they are tightening up the system but getting into trouble by | :13:57. | :14:03. | |
the European Commission, and saying Labour are giving them credit for | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
doing something like reducing net migration. | :14:06. | :14:12. | |
The top story: A 16-year-old has been stabbed to death on a bus in | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
Birmingham on her way to school -- a 16-year-old girl. The public have | :14:18. | :14:25. | |
been told not to approach the suspect, what may be armed. | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
A culling of deer. Does it really mean that hundreds of thousands of | :14:29. | :14:37. | |
them should be shot? On BBC London: Haringay council are investigating | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
a toddler left with a foster carer on a bus in north London. How a | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
company is helping the homeless through theatre. | :14:46. | :14:54. | |
The number of single-parent families in Britain has nearly | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
tripled over the last 40 years and the number of adults living alone | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
has doubled. They are some of the latest statistics from the Office | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
of National Statistics. Big changes to family life? Yes, this report is | :15:07. | :15:14. | |
very interesting. It shows in 40 years, there have been some marked | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
changes. Families - they have shrunk in size and that is due to | :15:17. | :15:23. | |
the rise of one-parent families. Have a look at these statistics. 8% | :15:23. | :15:32. | |
of families had one parent in 1971. That's risen to 22% today. So it's | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
almost three times as many in that situation. There are also more one- | :15:38. | :15:44. | |
person households. If you have a look at the statistics, 2% of | :15:44. | :15:50. | |
adults lived alone 40 years ago. Now, that's risen to 10%. So a | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
really quite significant increase there. Also big changes in terms of | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
health, drinking, smoking? Absolutely. There have been some | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
life-saving improvements to our lives over the past 40 years. The | :16:04. | :16:11. | |
statistics show us - 45% of adults smoked in the early 1970s. That's | :16:11. | :16:19. | |
dropped now to 20% today. It seems that the health warnings around | :16:19. | :16:26. | |
drinking may be beginning to work. The statistics - 18% of adults | :16:26. | :16:33. | |
drank on five days a week in 1989. That's dropped to 12%. So a fall of | :16:33. | :16:39. | |
a third in just 15 years. surprisingly, big changes on the | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
technology front - phones, televisions, computers? Absolutely. | :16:43. | :16:52. | |
It comes up strongly in this study. In 1971, 42% of homes had | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
telephones. That shot up, almost 100% have mobiles or landlines now. | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
On top of that, 80% of households now have computers. So you can see | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
in four decades there have been some dramatic changes. Thank you. | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
Now, scientists say around three- quarters of a million deer in the | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
UK should be culled, that is roughly half the deer population. | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
It is thought there are now more deer in Britain than at any time | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
since the Ice Age. Researchers say the deer are causing serious damage | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
to the habitat which is relied on by many other animals. Jeremy Cooke | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
is in Norfolk. Welcome to the beautiful Thetford | :17:30. | :17:36. | |
Forest. It is a very quiet day here today. Not much movement out there | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
in the woods. Last night, we were out with special thermal imaging | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
cameras and we saw the woods are teeming with deer. We are told it | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
is a similar picture across the country. That in turn has led for | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
this call for hundreds of thousands of deer to be culled. | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
They are beautiful wild creatures of our woodlands, but in recent | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
years the number of deer has been soaring. That means problems on the | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
roads. Some 14,000 accidents a year. And problems in the environment | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
with deer destroying habitat which supports other wildlife. Put simply, | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
today's report says there are way too many deer. If we let that | :18:19. | :18:25. | |
continue, we will have a lot of cute, nice deer running around, but | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
our woodlands will be eaten and we will lose some of our woodland | :18:30. | :18:37. | |
birds and bluebells and I don't think we should compromise them. | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
the Thetford Forest, they are using the latest thermal imaging | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
technology to give an accurate picture of deer populations on the | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
ground. The secrets of the night- time forest are revealed. The | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
bright images of deer emerge from the darkness making the task of | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
assessing their true numbers easier. Across the UK, it is now estimated | :18:57. | :19:04. | |
there are 1.5 million deer and researchers say that would mean a | :19:04. | :19:12. | |
cull of 750,000 a year just to keep the population stable. A cull on | :19:12. | :19:18. | |
that scale would mean a lot more of this - venison. The argument goes | :19:18. | :19:24. | |
that it is a valuable, healthy byproduct of killing deer which | :19:25. | :19:31. | |
helps protect the environment. deerstalker worth his salt will | :19:31. | :19:37. | |
have had adequate training to dispatch the animal in a human | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
manner. It's had a good life in the wild. Do you eat it yourself? | :19:41. | :19:47. | |
Lovely. Beautiful. You can't beat it! Researchers insist more of this | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
will help keep deer populations healthy. The RSPCA says it is | :19:52. | :20:01. | |
crucial that any cull is conducted in a controlled, humane manner. | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
Of course, calling for a cull on this level is bound to be | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
controversial. One group says it is dangerous to base policy on the | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
findings - it was scientific findings - but in this one-wood | :20:16. | :20:23. | |
land. Another group says any cull would have to be based on strong | :20:23. | :20:24. | |
scientific evidence. Silvio Berlusconi has been | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
sentenced to a year in prison over the publication of a wire-tapped | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
conversation. Mr Berlusconi was alleged to have pressed to have it | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
published to damage a political rival. He is expected to appeal | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
against the sentence. Campaigners fighting to keep child | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
heart operations at Leeds General Infirmary have won a legal | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
challenge. The consultation over changes to children's heart surgery | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
in England and Wales where Primary Care Trusts decided that surgery | :20:53. | :21:00. | |
should be concentrated at fewer larger sites was flawed. | :21:00. | :21:06. | |
Lord Sugar has condemned "a claim culture" as he accused a winner of | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
The Apprentice taking him to a tribunal to extract money. Stella | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
English is suing him for constructive dismissal. Let's get | :21:14. | :21:21. | |
more from Luisa Baldini. What else has been said? Well, Lord Sugar has | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
been cross-examined throughout the morning and several times the | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
atmosphere became quite heated as he became frustrated with questions | :21:28. | :21:36. | |
put to him by his former apprentice's barrister. He said, | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
"This is scraping the barrel and nit-picking." He called Stella | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
English a serial liar and deluded. He told the tribunal that she had | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
never raised a grievance when she was working at his company. He said, | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
"My organisation and employees did nothing but treat her well and | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
honour our obligations. No-one hates anyone in my companies." He | :21:56. | :22:03. | |
said he believes that she thought that he would pay her off in order | :22:03. | :22:09. | |
to avoid adverse publicity. He said, "I believe this claim is simply an | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
attempt to extract money from me. I have no intention to pay her any | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
money unless told to do so by the law." He told the court that she | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
had been desperate for money and that she had pestered his PR | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
company to get her some paid public speaking work. Miss English claims | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
that when she turned up on the first day of her proper job after | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
winning The Apprentice, she was told by one of Lord Sugar's | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
associates, "There is no job." She claims she was an overpaid lackey. | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
Lord Sugar's cross-examination will continue this afternoon. | :22:43. | :22:49. | |
Thank you very much. Now, the British jazz musician Kenny Ball | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
has died. He was 82 and had been suffering from pneumonia. He was | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
best-known as the lead trumpet player in Kenny Ball and his | :22:59. | :23:09. | |
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Jazzmen. The hits included I Love You Samantha and Midnight In Moscow. | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
Now, we are receiving unconfirmed reports that two British tourists | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
have been kidnapped in Egypt. Security sources say they were on | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
their way to a beach resort. They are reported to have been in a | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
private car going from Cairo to the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. | :23:29. | :23:36. | |
We will of course bring you more news on that when we get it. | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
Last summer's Olympics may seem a long time ago, but today many of | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
the big names are at Buckingham Palace to receive their honours and | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
Joe Wilson is there for us now. It's a rather cold day here, but | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
some of those rays of London 2012 sunshine have been with us. In | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
terms of Lord Sebastian Coe, the honour system has a problem, he has | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
won so much, what is left? Well, today he's joined the Order of the | :24:03. | :24:09. | |
Companions of Honour. Not a lot of people get that! My report does | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
contain some flash photography. Most of the London 2012 generation | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
weren't born when Seb Coe was redefining running. In 1979, he | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
broke three world records in 41 days. In 1980, he won Olympic gold | :24:23. | :24:31. | |
over 1500m. A title he retained in 1984. That alone made him unique. | :24:31. | :24:39. | |
He found his next calling in a job that mixed sport and politics. | :24:39. | :24:45. | |
ecstatic. He was the ambassador who guided London's bid and he was the | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
architect who ensured the Games were delivered. When our time came, | :24:50. | :24:58. | |
Britain, we did it right. Thank you. The Order of the Companions of | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
Honour is restricted to 65 ordinary members, plus the sovereign. Recent | :25:03. | :25:12. | |
recipients include Stephen Hawking and Sir David Attenborough. | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
very honoured. In fairness, delighted to be sharing it with so | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
many people. And sharing it with so many people that helped us across | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
the line in the London journey. Recognition for other outstanding | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
Olympians continues. Ben Ainslie is the most successful sailor in the | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
history of the Olympics. Today, he collected his knighthood. If 2012 | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
was the year when the Paralympics became the parallel games, David | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
Weir was at the forefront with four golds. Now he has a CBE as well, | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
although some suggested a knighthood would have been in order. | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
Catherine granger got her gold last summer after three successive | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
Olympic silvers. Britain's most successful female rower, she has | :25:52. | :25:58. | |
had a bit of time off since - well if you call completing a PhD in | :25:58. | :26:08. | |
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criminal law time off! A CBE for her. | :26:09. | :26:15. | |
The problem is in terms of London 2012, there is still too much | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
success to mention. Thank you very much. We are going | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
back to our top story. There's been a development in Birmingham where a | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
schoolgirl was stabbed to death on a bus this morning on her way to | :26:26. | :26:32. | |
school. Jon Kay is at the scene. Tell us what's happened, Jon. | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
Midlands Police have just named the 16-year-old girl who was stabbed on | :26:36. | :26:46. | |
a bus right here in the centre of Birmingham this morning. Her name - | :26:46. | :26:54. | |
Christina Edkins. We are told that she was a pupil at the high school | :26:54. | :26:56. | |
in Halesowen, just south of Birmingham. The school have | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
described her as a much-loved pupil and highly-rated and much-loved by | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
friends and by staff members as well. At the same time, I can tell | :27:04. | :27:10. | |
you that in the last few minutes a 22-year-old man has been arrested | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
very close to this bus stop, just at a Morrisons supermarket, 100 | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
yards away. We are told that he was seen acting suspiciously, that he | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
matched the description that police had given out earlier and that he | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
has now been detained on suspicion of murder. Thank you very much. | :27:28. | :27:38. | |
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The UK is shrouded in cloud today and some outbreaks of rain will | :27:38. | :27:43. | |
continue on and off through the afternoon. In some areas, they will | :27:43. | :27:46. | |
be persistent enough to make for a damp story as we look through the | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
remainder of today. Some hope of some brightness across the North | :27:49. | :27:54. | |
East of England. To the north of the UK, it does feel particularly | :27:54. | :27:57. | |
chilly. Also, we are still struggling with some patchy hill | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
fog across the North East. Hopefully, some of that will thin | :28:01. | :28:05. | |
and break. More rain set to shift up from the south into Scotland. | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
Plenty of cloud around here. Northern Ireland's been a little | :28:09. | :28:18. | |
drier in the last couple of hours. We will see more rain spreading | :28:18. | :28:28. | |
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from the east. It is a similar story for the South West of England. | :28:28. | :28:32. | |
Those murkier conditions will start to transfer their way eastwards as | :28:32. | :28:35. | |
well along the south coast towards the South East of England, | :28:35. | :28:39. | |
particularly as we head through this evening and overnight. It | :28:39. | :28:44. | |
could get very murky around Essex and Kent and we will see some fog | :28:44. | :28:51. | |
forming inland as well. Generally, though, a lot of cloud | :28:51. | :28:55. | |
around across the UK tonight. Further outbreaks of rain. Together, | :28:55. | :28:59. | |
those factors add up to a relatively mild night, largely | :28:59. | :29:07. | |
frost-free. Cold enough across the Grampians for the rain to turn to | :29:07. | :29:13. | |
snow. Western Scotland may get a few | :29:13. | :29:16. | |
glimmers of brightness. We may see some brightness elsewhere. It is | :29:16. | :29:20. | |
another day for many, rather like today, dominated by cloud and | :29:20. | :29:25. | |
outbreaks of rain. Still relatively mild in the south. To the north, | :29:25. | :29:28. | |
temperatures struggling all the while. It is that colder air to the | :29:29. | :29:32. | |
north of the UK that really comes into play for this weekend. It will | :29:32. | :29:36. | |
dig its way down further south across the UK, so much so that by | :29:36. | :29:41. | |
the end of the weekend, the entire country is submerged in it. It will | :29:41. | :29:45. | |
feel increasingly raw. Grey, wet prospects for many on Saturday. | :29:45. | :29:49. | |
Sunday things become drier, but as it becomes colder there will be the | :29:49. | :29:54. | |
risk of some snow. Next week, a good deal colder. Temperatures | :29:54. | :29:58. | |
around freezing. Any showers that we do see could turn wintry. So a | :29:58. | :30:08. | |
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