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for trying to cover it up, the damning report into the health | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
regulator's handling into the inquiry into deaths of babies at a | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
Cumbria hospital. The Care Quality Commission admits it let people | :00:17. | :00:23. | |
down. A father of one of the victims says the report is shocking. | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
To actually accept and understand internally that they knew they'd | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
done things wrong and to bury that report instead of learning from it | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
is just absolutely appalling. examine how the regulator behaved. | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
Also this lunch time: The Supreme Court rules families of soldiers | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
killed in Iraq while using snatch Land Rovers can sue the Ministry of | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
Defence for damages under the human rights agent. | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
The deputy Speaker, Nigel Evans, is arrested again on further three | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
counts of indecent asalted. The buck stops here, senior bankers | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
guilty of reckless misconduct should be jailed. | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
Health campaigners, welcome proposals for clearer food | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
labelling, but some manufacturers are still not prepared to sign up | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
later on BBC London, how the lack of affordable homes means we are now | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
waiting decades before buying. Anger at City Hall over the mayor's | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
plans to close fire stations and plans to close fire stations and | :01:21. | :01:31. | |
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News at 1pm. The chairman of England's health care regulator, the | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
Care Quality Commission has admitted the organisation was not fit for | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
purpose when it came to hospital inspections and is still not fully | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
up to standard. A report published this morning suggests the CQC might | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
have deliberately covered up knowledge of its own failings in | :02:01. | :02:09. | |
2010 following a series of deaths at David Furnish General hospital in -- | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
Furness General hospital in Cumbria. Today the chairman David Pryor said | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
sorry. Sorry for what had happened and sorry to the families involved. | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
Our health correspondent is outside the hospital now. | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
The events that led to today's damning report started here at | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
Furness General Hospital. In 2010 the regulator, the Care Quality | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
Commission told patients this hospital was safe. We know now that | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
wasn't the case. We know perhaps more shockingly, that the regulator | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
then tried to cover up its own mistake. | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
This report focuses on houp the Care Quality Commission handled its role | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
as the regulator at Furness General Hospital which became mired in | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
controversy after the death of a number of babies born in the | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
maternity unit. Police are still investigating the death of baby | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
Joshua, who died in 2008 after staff failed to spot an infection. Despite | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
apparently well known concerns over the hospital, it was registered as | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
safe by the CQC less than 18 months later. The father of Joshua, who led | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
calls for the CQC to come clean over its role, is shocked by what the | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
report says. Whilst I think I recognise that there were obviously | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
failures in the regulation, I didn't realise the extent and it's no | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
exaggeration, I felt physically ill when I read about the cover up. That | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
was just such an outrageous thing to have happened. The report was | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
written by an independent firm of consultants and it makes | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
uncomfortable reading for the CQC. It talks of questionable decision | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
making by the regulator, a disfunctional relationship between | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
the CQC and other bodies like the Strategic Health Authority. Most | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
worrying, evidence of a deliberate cover up to suppress a damaging | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
internal report. The final report has been present to the Care Quality | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
Commission, prompting a Frank apology for its failings. It's a | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
damning report. We were a disfunctional organisation in 2010 | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
when we registered the hospital. I'm deeply disappointed and sorry that | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
we performed so badly. Many seen quor figures running the CQC at time | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
have now left, but still ministers want to make sure the organisation | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
has learned some hard lessons. are some very impressive people who | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
have come onto the board, but they have to demonstrate the onerous | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
responsibility to rebuild publish confidence is very apparent. The | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
public has to be confident in the patients' champion that it will | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
expose wrongdoing. I'm confident that they will achieve that | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
objective. Some of the weaknesses outlined in this report echo | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
failures at Stafford Hospital. Seeing those mistakes repeated will | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
greatly trouble ministers and patients. | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
Now the management of the Trust that runs this hospital, University | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
hospitals of Morecambe Bay has changed completely as has the | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
management of the Care Quality Commission. In the next hour we hear | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
from the Health Secretary, who is making a statement in the House of | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
Commons. He will be expected to answer some of the underlying | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
questions, particularly - is the Care Quality Commission fit for | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
purpose? Thank you very much. | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
Our political correspondent Norman Smith is in Westminster for us. The | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
Prime Minister's already described it as deeply disturbing and | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
appalling. As Dominic was saying, we're hearing from the Health | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
Secretary later. No-one in Government is seeking in any way to | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
play down the gravity of the failings by the Care Quality | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
Commission. Equally, no-one is proposing another radical overhaul | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
of the CQC or another package of NHS reforms. When Mr Hunt gets to his | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
feet, he will argue that he has already put in place the necessary | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
changes to address the failings. There will be, for example, an | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
inspector of hospitals. There will be a duty of candour on NHS staff. | :06:01. | :06:07. | |
There will be a new criminal offence of cover up within the NHS. In terms | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
of the Care Quality Commission itself, he will stress the entire | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
board has been cleared out. His difficulty is whether that will | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
still go far enough for those -- for those directly involved who bluntly | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
want heads to roll. As it stands we believe those involved have been | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
able to walk away with their redundancy and pension entitlements | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
in tact. They've not been named and shamed, apparently because of data | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
protection reasons. We don't even know if they've been barred of | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
working elsewhere in the NHS. Mr Hunt also will have to reassure the | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
public. This is just the latest scandal to hit the NHS. His | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
difficulty is turning round the culture in the NHS is a very slow | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
process. Thank you very much. | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
The BBC News channel will cover the Health Secretary's statement to the | :06:53. | :07:00. | |
House of Commons following this programme just after 1. 30pm. | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
The Ministry of Defence faces legal action after a landmark ruling that | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
families of soldiers killed in Iraq can pursue damages under the Human | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
Rights Act. The Supreme Court's decision follows a case brought by | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
the relatives of servicemen killed and injured in Iraq, including three | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
men who died while travelling in snatch Land Rovers. | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
Caroline wiet is at the court now. This is the result that the MoD did | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
not want. Its lawyers have fought hard for many years, through the | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
courts, to limit the extension of human rights and negligence laws to | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
the battlefield, which is an unpredictable place, which the MoD | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
says is a place apart and where these sort of laws should not apply. | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
The persistence of several bereaved families and their lawyers seems to | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
have paid off. Sue Smith arrived at the Supreme | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
Court this morning unsure what the country's highest court would make | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
of her long legal battle. For Sue, the fight began when her son Private | :07:59. | :08:08. | |
Phillip Hewitt was killed in Iraq in July 2005. Blown up as he travelled | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
in a Land Rover. She believed the MoD was neglect not providing better | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
protection for him. Last year, the Court of Appeal accepted the | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
Government's argument that soldiers on the battlefield were beyond the | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
reach of the Human Rights Act, which guarantees the right to life. But | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
today, Lord hope handed down this judgment: The Supreme Court holds | :08:28. | :08:35. | |
unanimously that in relation to the Snatch Land Rover claims private | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
Hewitt and private Ellis were t the United Kingdom jurisdiction. For Sue | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
and Colin, whose son Kirk was also killed in a Snatch Land Rover, today | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
marked a significant step forward in their legal battle with the MoD over | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
soldiers' rights. They can't just be out there with no equipment or it | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
doesn't matter. As an employer, they have to make sure they're safe at | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
work, which is what should have been happening from day one. A victory | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
for the families who fought so hard on behalf of their brothers, fathers | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
and sons. But it isn't the end of the story. What it means is they can | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
take their cases back to the High Court. There, though, the MoD is | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
likely to fight hard. Today the Defence Secretary issued this | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
statement: I'm very concerned at the wider implications of this judgment, | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
which could ultimately make it more difficult for our troops to carry | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
out operations and potentially throes open a wide range of military | :09:34. | :09:40. | |
decisions to the uncertainty of litigation. The Supreme Court's | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
ruling does extend the law's reach to the battlefield also allowing | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
negligence claims to be brought against the MoD, but the judges were | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
clear policy decisions and decisions made in the heat of battle will not | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
be open to legal challenge. All the claimants' cases can now go back to | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
the High Court where there are likely to be more legal skirmishes | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
on the exact application of the ruling today. Before it's clear, | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
exact lit impact this will have on the MoD, whether for procurement | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
decisions or training decisions or issuing orders ahead of sending | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
soldiers, sailors or air personnel onto the battlefield. Thank you very | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
much. The deputy Speaker of the House of | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
Commons, Nigel Evans, whose facing an allegation of rape, has been | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
rearrested on suspicion of three further counts of indecent assault. | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
Our political correspondent is at Preston police station. What | :10:31. | :10:38. | |
happened in court? Well, Nigel Evans is in Preston police station behind | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
me. He's being questioned by detectives on those three new | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
allegations of indecent assault. He was already facing one allegation of | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
rape and another of sexual assault. He was arrested last month by | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
detectives at Lancashire Police. These new allegations, we | :10:56. | :11:03. | |
understand, relate to incidents in Blackpool and London between 2003 | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
and 2011. In total there are now five different individuals, all men | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
in their 20s, who are making allegations against the deputy | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
Speaker of the House of Commons. Now when last month, he was arrested, he | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
came out into his constituency and made a very strong defence of his | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
position. He said that the allegations were completely false | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
and I cannot understand why they've been made by two men who he regarded | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
as friends. He's had overwhelming support, he says he's had | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
overwhelming support in the constituency and in Parliament, but | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
I think, this must be having some political corrosive effect on his | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
political career. Thank you very much. | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
Senior bankers guilty of reckless misconduct should be jailed, that's | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
one of the recommendations of a long awaited report on the banking | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
sector. The Parliamentary commission on banking standards also calls for | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
the bonuses of top staff working in high risk areas to be withheld for | :12:00. | :12:09. | |
up to ten years. The Treasury has welcomed the report. | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
The Libor scandal last summer, a tale of City traders trying to rig | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
interest rates, was the straw which broke the camel's back for banking. | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
The Chancellor set up a commission on changing the culture of an | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
industry, which let down customers, and was so reckless it had to be | :12:24. | :12:31. | |
bailed out. At the moment bankers are incentivised sometimes to take | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
huge risks. It's a one-way bet in a sense. If things go well, they pick | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
up huge bonuses. If things go badly, they don't have their shirts on the | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
line, they can more or less walk away. That has to stop. | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
commission wants to deter senior bankers from allowing wrongdoing by | :12:48. | :12:54. | |
deforing their bonuses for up to ten years. Those bonuses could be | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
cancelled if a bank needed to be rescued by the taxpayer. There | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
should be an offence of reckless misconduct by senior bankers | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
punishable by a prison sentence. Labour says put this in place. The | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
Government is making a start. an impressive piece of work. We will | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
respond to all of its 500 pages within the next four weeks, at pace. | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
The report seeks to keep top bankers under control by putting their | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
bonuses out of reach for years and by threatening them with more | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
painful sanctions if they behave badly. It's not just the bankers who | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
get a going over, more stringent regulation is called for and more | :13:33. | :13:40. | |
surgery on the banking industry. The commission says RBS, owned bit | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
taxpayer, could be split in two - a bad bank, to hold problem debts and | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
a good bank, free to lend more and eelsier to sell off again to the | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
private sector. Plus, there should be a study into giving customers | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
portable account numbers, a bit like mobile phone numbers, which don't | :13:59. | :14:05. | |
change to stir up competition. part is to make it ease dwror switch | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
between banks. A suddeny into the costs and benefits of that, more | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
delay, it doesn't mean we'll see easier switching any time soon. | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
Banks say they recognise the need for reform but there's worry that | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
controls on pay will hold the industry back. That's what's | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
happening with British banks. If the British banks can't pay what the | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
Americans and Asians can pay, they will lose the best people. The aim | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
is to banish mis-selling, manipulation and costly failures, | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
bringing in a new generation of bankers. The question - will this be | :14:37. | :14:43. | |
enough? Our chief economics correspondent, | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
Hugh Pym, is here with me. The banking sector under the spotlight | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
and will remain so tonight because the Chancellor is giving his Mansion | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
House speech. Yes, a major event for the City of London. The Chancellor | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
will deliver a speech and he's likely to give his first indication | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
of where he sees things going after this commission report. Broadly | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
supportive as we've been hearing there. But crucially, he'll set out | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
his vision for the future of Lloyds an RBS, the big banks where | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
taxpayers still have a major stake. He may well say yes, he wants to | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
start a sale of shares as early as earlier next year in Lloyds. That | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
could be a major privatisation in the run up to the election, possibly | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
to retail investors as well as institutions. �20 billion worth, a | :15:29. | :15:35. | |
big event for the City. As regards RBS, more work has been demanded in | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
terms of should it be split or not? That will take a few months. It | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
seems unlikely they can sell any of RBS before the election. We'll hear | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
a bit more, possibly from the Chancellor tonight. It is the final | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
speech as governor by Sir Mervyn King, who knows what he has up his | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
King, who knows what he has up his King, who knows what he has up his | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
sleeve? The Afghan Government is suspending talks with the United | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
States on security arrangements in the country after international | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
troops withdraw next year. A spokesman for President Hamid Karzai | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
said the decision was taken in protest over proposed direct talks | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
between America an the Taliban. Just hours before the announcement, four | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
US soldiers were killed in a Taliban US soldiers were killed in a Taliban | :16:15. | :16:16. | |
US soldiers were killed in a Taliban US soldiers were killed in a Taliban | :16:16. | :16:26. | |
attack at an air base. Our correspondent joins us now. How | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
angry does President Karzai appeared to be? Yesterday we had cautious | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
optimism about those talks with the Taliban, and today we have the harsh | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
reality. Firstly, the Taliban are far from giving up the fight. | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
Yesterday, they killed those for Americans nearby grand airbase. We | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
also heard of a second attack in Helmand in which five policemen were | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
killed. The Taliban again claimed responsibility. But the bigger issue | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
is President Karzai's reaction to the way those talks were handled, | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
the announcement made by the Americans. He claimed he had an | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
agreement with the Americans that there would be preconditions for | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
those talks, including recognising his government, or are recognising | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
the Afghan constitution and ending the violence. And those have not | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
been met, so he feels betrayed. His response has been to suspend those | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
talks with the Americans about their long-term military presence in the | :17:24. | :17:30. | |
country. We have just heard that the body he set up to negotiate with the | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
Taliban are now refusing to go to go hard to talk with the Taliban. The | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
ayes have it, the ayes have it said there would be bumps in the road in | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
these talks -- President Obama said there would be bumps on the road. We | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
have got a massive pothole before they have even begun, so not the | :17:46. | :17:55. | |
greatest start. Barack Obama has held talks with the | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
German chancellor Angela Merkel on his first visit to Berlin since | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
become a US president. Later, he will make a speech at the famous | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
Brandenburg Gate, where he will call for a large reduction in American | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
and Russian nuclear weapons. It is almost 50 years to the dais and | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
spasms and Kennedy delivered his famous speech in the then divided | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
city. Our correspondent is in Berlin. What were they talking about | :18:18. | :18:25. | |
this morning? They were talking about real issues. A lot of warmth | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
about the relationship, but then chancellor Merkel raised the issue | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
of the surveillance by the American Secret Service of the internet. She | :18:31. | :18:38. | |
grew up in East Germany, where spying was very real, so she voiced | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
concern about that. She said there had to be proportionality. President | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
Obama responded for some minutes, saying it was a limited programme, | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
that lives had been saved, and tried to reassure her. After his speech, | :18:52. | :19:00. | |
she said questions remained. So a real disagreement over a real issue, | :19:00. | :19:07. | |
with her voicing discontent. And a hugely symbolic speech to come at | :19:07. | :19:13. | |
the Brandenburg Gate. How important could that proved to be? A very | :19:13. | :19:22. | |
important speech for President Obama. The setting is historic. He | :19:22. | :19:28. | |
is making a resonance with President Kennedy's speech 50 years ago, where | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
Kennedy said "Ich bin ein Berliner". So the backdrop will be in macula. | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
He was welcomed by 200,000 people when he was in Berlin, seeking the | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
presidency. Today will be much more controlled, but it will be a big | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
speech about international affairs, with the right backdrop for the | :19:47. | :19:56. | |
folks back home. Our top story this lunchtime: The | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
Care Quality Commission is accused of a cover-up over its report into | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
the deaths of babies at a Cumbria hospital. | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
Still to come, protest spread across Brazil, with thousands of | :20:07. | :20:14. | |
demonstrators taking to the streets. On BBC London News, the man at the | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
heart of a campaign to get reparations for victims of Chile's | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
Pinochet regime. And how a mum from Berks has won the | :20:22. | :20:32. | |
acclaimed art prize for a portrait of her son. | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
Now, when you are buying food, how much attention do you pay to the | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
nutritional guidelines on the packets? Recently, shoppers have | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
been given a range of different labels and colour codes explaining | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
how much fat, salt and sugar is contained in an item. Today the | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
government is introducing a new system which it hopes will stop the | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
confusion. But while all the major supermarkets have signed up, some | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
big firms like Coca-Cola, Cadburys and United Biscuits are not taking | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
part. Some foods already say on the front | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
how much salt, sugar or fat they contain. There are labels using | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
numbers showing how much of your daily intake that might be, and | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
others using a traffic light colours red, amber and green. Foods with | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
mainly green are the healthiest. Read on the label is a warning to go | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
easy. Under the new voluntary system, food companies are being | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
asked to use both numbers and colours, which has been welcomed by | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
big retailers. Some people who are shopping quickly, like a mother who | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
might be looking for healthier choices, she might be whizzing | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
through the store and looking for things that are green and amber. | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
Someone who might be interested in certain nutrients, like a person | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
suffering from high blood pressure, they might interrogate the packaging | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
more. Health campaigners say using traffic light colours and numbers | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
will help shoppers, allowing them to pick out which foods are healthiest | :21:57. | :22:03. | |
at a glance. What we eat has a real effect on our health. How much salt, | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
sugar or saturated fat is in our food 's but it is hard to make | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
healthy choices without clear labelling on all the products. But | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
charities say it is to pointing that some big-name brands, including | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
Kellogg's, Cadburys and Coke, have not signed up to adding the traffic | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
light colours to labels. It is untenable for any company that | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
claims to be socially responsible not to sign up to the traffic light | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
labelling scheme. There is a responsibility on the government | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
name and shame any company which its feet. Unless we have widespread | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
adoption, the whole scheme is undermined. Ministers say public | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
pressure might persuade other companies to join the voluntary | :22:46. | :22:54. | |
scheme. They argue that getting all the main food grade -- retailers to | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
agree is a step forward. Some of the big manufacturers have signed up, so | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
when the other manufacturers see that their rivals have signed up, | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
they will see that they should follow suit. Giving people the | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
information to make decisions is one thing, but as doctors point out, | :23:11. | :23:18. | |
getting us all to change our behaviour is more complex. | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
A teacher who was in a relationship with one of his pupils and fled to | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
France with her wept in court as a former colleague described him as | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
one of the most gifted teachers he had ever met. Lewes Crown Court has | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
heard that the pupil was aged 15 when she started a sexual | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
relationship with Jeremy Forrest. The court heard this morning that he | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
will not be giving evidence in his trial. He denies child abduction. | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
This was the last full day of evidence in Jeremy Forrest's trial, | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
the 30-year-old teacher accused of abducting a 15-year-old pupil and | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
taking her to France. His parents and sister were in court as the | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
prosecution and defence wound up their cases. Jeremy Forrest wept as | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
his defence barrister read out witness statements praising him as a | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
teacher, with one colleague saying he was one of the most gifted | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
teachers he had ever met. But summing up for the prosecution, they | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
said Jeremy Forrest had told a pack of lies and betrayed everyone. He | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
said he had betrayed his wife, his school colleagues, the girl's mother | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
and the girl herself, and that he caused heartache to all those he had | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
left behind. Police officers told the court how they used CCTV | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
pictures to track Forrest and the girl on their way to France last | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
September. The jury was told they went to Bordeaux, that Forrest | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
booked the ferries and hotels. Without that, the prosecution said, | :24:42. | :24:50. | |
the girl would not have been able to leave. Jeremy Forrest was said to | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
having gauged pupils with his love of teaching and music. The | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
prosecution said he could have said no before taking the girl away. The | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
jury is expected to go out tomorrow. An emergency security force is being | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
deployed on the streets of Brazil to try to control a series of protests. | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
Thousands of people have taken part in demonstrations against the high | :25:11. | :25:17. | |
cost of living and the expense of next year's World Cup. | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
Another night when a tide of people, not traffic, blocked the | :25:21. | :25:27. | |
streets of Sao Paulo. A rise in bus fares was the spark, but that has | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
unleashed a range of long-held grievances over how Brazil is | :25:31. | :25:38. | |
governed. Our politicians are not interested in taking care of the | :25:38. | :25:44. | |
country. They are taking care of themselves. TRANSLATION: It is for | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
the corrupt Brazil we are living in. Health, education, everything is | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
wrong. A small group turned violent. They grabbed barricades and | :25:52. | :25:58. | |
tried to invade the City Hall. The police had to beat them back. In the | :25:58. | :26:05. | |
chaos, a TV satellite truck was set on fire. The air was thick with | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
smoke and pepper spray. Elsewhere, the march went on peacefully, fears | :26:10. | :26:16. | |
over security has led the government to dispatch special police units to | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
the cities hosting the Confederations Cup soccer | :26:18. | :26:24. | |
tournament. Brazil's president, herself a former left-wing guerrilla | :26:24. | :26:30. | |
fighter, says she is sympathetic to the protests' complaints, but she is | :26:30. | :26:36. | |
not so far offering solutions. She said the people must be heard. The | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
message from the streets is to improve civil society for better | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
schools, hospitals and public transport. A more confident young | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
generation is flexing its political muscle for the first time, angry | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
that Brazil's rising economy has not translated into better public | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
services. They have no clear leader, nor detailed demands, but | :26:57. | :27:06. | |
through social media, many more demonstrations are planned. | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
England's cricketers made dominant start of their semi-final in the | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
Champions Trophy against South Africa at the Oval. The tournament | :27:12. | :27:18. | |
features the best eight teams in the world, and England have never won | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
it. But their bowlers put them in an excellent position to reach the | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
weekend's final before a African fightback. | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
Like a picking between diamonds, James Anderson's wrap depends on his | :27:30. | :27:35. | |
raw material. The ball is round, his stage was the Oval. A semi-final is | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
naturally a big deal, and it helps that this tournament has featured | :27:39. | :27:45. | |
intrigue. England dodged that Australian punch in Birmingham. They | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
dodged the rain in Cardiff and dealt with renewed richly about the way | :27:48. | :27:54. | |
they treat the ball. England deny any suggestion that they pamper with | :27:54. | :28:01. | |
it to help their bowlers. Whether the ball is red or white, what is | :28:01. | :28:07. | |
agreed is that James Anderson uses it with enormous skill. A wicket for | :28:07. | :28:13. | |
Anderson with his fifth ball. And Steve Finn struck in his first | :28:13. | :28:19. | |
over. Big wicket, too. Hashim Amla was gone. The score was four for | :28:19. | :28:27. | |
two. Peterson was deceived by Anderson. South Africa already in | :28:27. | :28:30. | |
deep trouble, and the captain played a shot which hardly suited the | :28:30. | :28:37. | |
seriousness. Now a novel dismissal, Brian McLaren stumbling out of his | :28:37. | :28:43. | |
crease, Jonathan Trott alive to it. It was soon 80 48. James Treadwell | :28:43. | :28:51. | |
bowled. But South Africa summoned some late slogging. So when they | :28:51. | :29:01. | |
bat, England will have something to Now the weather. | :29:01. | :29:08. | |
It is glorious out there, a real summer's be. We saw thunderstorms | :29:08. | :29:12. | |
earlier in eastern parts of England. But over the last few hours, that | :29:12. | :29:19. | |
cloud has melted away. But we also have high UV levels and high pollen | :29:19. | :29:25. | |
levels if you are hayfever sufferer. We are not seeing high pollen levels | :29:25. | :29:27. | |
in the north-west corner of Scotland, because we have a weather | :29:27. | :29:32. | |
front here, bringing outbreaks of rain. Quite cool as well for the | :29:32. | :29:37. | |
Hebrides, but for most of Scotland, a fine afternoon, as it will be | :29:37. | :29:41. | |
across northern England, Northern Ireland and the Midlands. Feeling | :29:41. | :29:49. | |
very warm and humid. A few showers pushing into the central and | :29:49. | :29:53. | |
southern Midlands and into Hampshire, and bits of cloud across | :29:53. | :30:03. | |
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the south-east. Feeling very warm and muggy at Ascot. This evening, | :30:08. | :30:14. | |
many areas will have a perfect evening to set out in the garden. We | :30:14. | :30:19. | |
will start to see showers gathering across southern areas. Some of these | :30:19. | :30:25. | |
could be heavy and thundery. It will remain warm and muggy across the | :30:25. | :30:30. | |
north-west corner, where we will see rain and showers pushing into | :30:30. | :30:34. | |
Northern Ireland and north-west Scotland. Tomorrow, there will be | :30:34. | :30:41. | |
dry and bright weather across Scotland and northern England. Some | :30:41. | :30:47. | |
of the rain will be heavy and persistent, but brightness turns up | :30:47. | :30:53. | |
across the Midlands and the south-east. Still feeling quite | :30:53. | :31:03. | |
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warm. But it is all change as we had towards Friday. This low pressure | :31:03. | :31:11. | |
has the weekend's name on it, to bring some wet and windy weather. An | :31:11. | :31:19. | |
outbreak of rain will spread from west to east on Friday. On Saturday | :31:19. | :31:22. | |
and Sunday, that area of low pressure arrives, so it will be | :31:22. | :31:27. | |
showery and breezy and much cooler. If it is warmth you love, today is | :31:27. | :31:35. | |
the day. A reminder of our main stories: The | :31:35. | :31:40. | |
Care Quality Commission is accused of a cover-up over its report into | :31:40. | :31:44. |