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The Royal Mail is to be privatised in the biggest sell-off for | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
decades. The Government says the move will allow Royal Mail to | :00:13. | :00:21. | |
compete. Critics say it could mean job losses and an end to delivery | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
six days a week. We will have all the latest from Westminster. | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
Also this lunchtime, one of Britain's biggest unions give a | :00:32. | :00:42. | |
stark warning about the link. Miliband said he wanted to end the | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
link rather -- amend the link rather than end it but this is as close as | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
we are getting. The worst flooding in China for 50 | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
years. People have been buried by landslides and thousands have had to | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
flee their homes. Minimum training standards for 1 | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
million healthcare assistants are commended in the wake of the | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
Stafford Hospital scandal. Britain's small-scale fishermen are | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
celebrating a significant High Court victory over the rights to quotas. | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
Eye and Joe Wilson in Nottingham, where we have had an overcast start | :01:17. | :01:23. | |
of the Ashes. We have already won a couple of wickets to warm Australia | :01:23. | :01:32. | |
Later on BBC London, a fire and Hounslow kills people as a woman | :01:32. | :01:38. | |
jumps to her death. And the teenage killer who stabbed a student to | :01:38. | :01:48. | |
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News that one. The Royal Mail is to be privatised in a move that will | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
see tens of thousands of staff getting a stake in the company. The | :02:04. | :02:11. | |
Government says the sell-off will give Royal Mail greater freedom to | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
compete but the Communication Workers Union says the plan will | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
lead to joblessness and lower wage increases. The plan does not include | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
post offices, which are run separately. Here is our industry | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
correspondent. Not so long ago, Royal Mail was | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
haemorrhaging cash and facing long-term decline. Now, boosted by | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
prices and the growth of online retailing, its profits are soaring. | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
The coalition hopes that will make an attractive prospect for | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
investors. Today, the Business Secretary came to the Commons to | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
explain how Royal Mail will be privatised, something previous | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
governments have failed to do. the time has come for government to | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
step up from Royal Mail, allow its management to focus wholeheartedly | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
on growing the business and planning for the future and it is now time | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
for employees to hold a stake in the company and a share in its success. | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
So this Government will give Royal Mail the real commercial freedom it | :03:08. | :03:18. | |
has needed for a long-time ally commend this statement to the House. | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
10% of shares will be given to Royal Mail staff, providing the possible | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
windfall of around �2000 each. The Royal Mail business is expected to | :03:27. | :03:34. | |
be valued at up to �3 billion. But Labour says the privatisation is a | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
fire sale and that if in government, it would have kept the majority | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
stake in the business. And the main postal union is opposed, too. Today | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
it delivered that message to Royal Mail's central London headquarters. | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
Royal Mail last year made an increase of 60% in profits and it | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
won't be a burden to the taxpayer in the future. We support a social | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
business model which would make sure it can access capital without the | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
downside of private control. postal union is so concerned about | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
union that it has announced its intention to ballot for industrial | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
action. That raises the very real prospect of a national strike and a | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
Royal Mail standstill at the very time the Government is trying to | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
sell of this business. But what will it all mean to millions of people | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
who used Royal Mail everyday? Consumer groups want guarantees that | :04:28. | :04:36. | |
prices will be affordable. But experts warned that in private | :04:36. | :04:43. | |
hands, the cost of posting letters and packages could soar. Think we | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
will see the increase in stamps but they will also see Royal Mail be a | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
bit less generous with them in terms of the scope of services it offers. | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
But Royal Mail also faces challenges. One of its rivals, TNT, | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
has 1,000 postmen on the streets of London and hopes to have up to | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
20,000 around the UK in five years' time. | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
Let's get more from Norman Smith, because, Norman, not for the first | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
time somebody has thought of this idea. Do you really think it will | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
happen? Privatising Royal Mail has been a bit like the boomerang of | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
British politics. Successive governments have tried to cast it | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
off and it has come back and can't the Secretary of State on the head. | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
We had Michael Heseltine having a go and failing, and then Peter | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
Mandelson, and now Vince Cable. And there are still risks. The unions | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
are threatening to strike and opinion polls suggest the public is | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
decidedly iffy about the prospect. But this time it is different. Why? | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
Because the politics have changed. Although Labour are opposing the | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
idea today they are not threatening to renationalise a privatised Royal | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
Mail. Secondly, money is different. Royal Mail is attractive to | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
investors as a profit-making venture. But they have packed this | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
sell-off with sweeteners. Royal Mail staff get tempers and the shares | :06:08. | :06:15. | |
free, maybe up to �1000. -- get 10%. And although it won't be a Tell Sid | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
style campaign, the public, too, will be able to buy shares, so in | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
this sense, Vince Cable won't have to duck to avoid that returning | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
boomerang. The leader of the country's third | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
largest union has given the starkest warning yet about Ed Miliband's | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
plans to change the relationship with trade unions. Paul Kenny from | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
the GMB says the reforms come as close as you can get to ending the | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
link and yesternight Labour could see its funding from the GMB four x | :06:48. | :06:55. | |
90%. -- and estimates Labour could see. Yesterday, Ed Miliband | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
announced the biggest change to Labour's relationship with the | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
unions for a generation. Instead of union leaders handing over cash to | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
the party, in future, each individual member would have to give | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
their consent. The leader of Britain's third biggest union sees | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
this as a weakening of historic ties which will prove costly to Labour. I | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
asked him to put a price on it. Cumulatively, five millionplus, | :07:21. | :07:28. | |
maybe. In terms of each year, about 2 million. And he says the | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
long-standing link between Labour and unions is now under threat, and | :07:32. | :07:38. | |
he may even back some of Ed Miliband's opponents. The union | :07:38. | :07:45. | |
hasn't got a collective voice and maybe that freezes up to do other | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
things and support other candidates and are also some things. That is | :07:50. | :07:56. | |
the logical conclusion. Union leaders said Ed Miliband | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
rushed into these reforms after getting a kick in last week in prime | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
ministers questions. This did not stop David Cameron raising the whole | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
issue of trade union influence over Labour today. Will be unions still | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
have the biggest vote at the conference? Yes! Will they still be | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
able to determine party policy? Yes! Will they still have the | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
decisive vote in voting and the Labour Leader? Yes! They own him | :08:25. | :08:32. | |
lock, stock and barrel. I am proud we have links with ordinary working | :08:32. | :08:39. | |
people. He is bankrolled by a few millionaires. The party of the | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
people, the party of privilege. Labour now want to raise broader | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
questions about party funding but some unions say Ed Miliband has not | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
thought through the far reaching consequences of his own reforms. | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
Up to 40 people have been buried in a landslide in south-western China | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
following days of torrential rain and flooding. Hundreds of buildings | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
have been destroyed and thousands of people have been forced to flee | :09:05. | :09:13. | |
their homes. This was ferocious nature in full | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
flow. Torrents of water tore through this town and little was allowed to | :09:17. | :09:23. | |
stand in the way. One factory worker was left stranded. He waded into the | :09:23. | :09:33. | |
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swollen waters. Just in time. A colleague then pulled him to safety. | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
Battling the weather conditions, the emergency services are struggling to | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
cope. This man said, all the rescue vehicles in the town have been swept | :09:43. | :09:50. | |
away. Elsewhere, a bridge collapsed, sending six cars plunging into the | :09:50. | :09:56. | |
river. At least 12 people are still missing. Across the region, a | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
massive rescue operation is now underway. It has been carried out by | :09:59. | :10:06. | |
any means possible. The government says over a quarter of a million | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
people have been affected by these floods. Hundreds have been left | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
marooned, waiting for help to arrive. This region is no stranger | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
to natural disasters. It was devastated by a massive earthquake | :10:19. | :10:26. | |
in 2008. Torrential rain is sweeping across large parts of China and it | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
appears that in the worst affected areas hit by these terrible floods, | :10:30. | :10:36. | |
there is going to be little respite. In Sichuan province, up to 15 | :10:36. | :10:43. | |
centimetres of rainfall are expected in the next 24 hours. | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
Here, health care assistants look after some of the most needy and | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
vulnerable people in society but often have little if any training. | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
Now, a report commissioned by the Government has recommended all staff | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
in England should receive a minimum standard of training before they are | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
allowed to work unsupervised. The Cavendish Review was set up in the | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
wake of the Stafford Hospital scandal. | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
Healthcare resistance on the front line when it comes to looking after | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
patients. Routine but vital work means there are more than 1 million | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
of them working in our health system. Looking after all the old | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
people I love because they make me laugh and tell me tales. And when | :11:26. | :11:36. | |
they are all clean and satin bed, I feel good. -- sat in bed. But some | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
have just watched a DVD before dealing with patients and need more | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
training. And after a public enquiry into Stafford Hospital, where poor | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
care may have contributed to the deaths of dozens of elderly | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
patients, a review has reported back to date about standards of care and | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
training. Healthcare assistants don't just work here in hospitals, | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
they work in care homes and people's private homes as well. They | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
provide some of the most fundamental and basic care, like turning people | :12:03. | :12:12. | |
in bed so they don't get pressure sores people to eat and watch. But | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
at the moment, their training varies between organisations. So the | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
proposal is to give all healthcare assistants in England the same level | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
of basic training, with a two week course covering First Aid, | :12:22. | :12:28. | |
infection, control and dementia awareness. They must then get a | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
certificate of fundamental care before looking after people and | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
supervised. And once they have this and appropriate, they can be allowed | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
to use the title nursing assistant. The union which represents health | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
care assistants has welcomed the proposals but says regulation should | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
be the next step. We think that is necessary to both give status to the | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
staff doing the job, but also to give protection to patients and the | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
public so they know the people trying to provide that level of | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
internet care are actually covered by some regulatory body. But these | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
changes are not given. The Department of Health says they have | :13:07. | :13:14. | |
not accepted any of the proposals yet and will respond in the autumn. | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
Britain's big fishing bosses have lost a High Court battle with the | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
Government over the reallocation of fishing quotas. They were | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
challenging plans to pass on their own used quotas to small-scale | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
fishermen. The ruling should benefit coastal fishermen who working boats | :13:28. | :13:36. | |
smaller than ten metres long. Life on the seas has been rough for | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
small fish are Britain. David White has worked for ten nights in a row | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
to make the most of the recent good weather. In Europe, you cannot fish | :13:46. | :13:53. | |
commercially without a government quota. David has been fishing | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
overnight for soul. But like so many for fishermen, the quota he is | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
allocated is barely enough to make a living. It is getting harder and | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
harder. It is ridiculous, to be honest with you. I mean, we have | :14:08. | :14:15. | |
worked ten trips now without a day off. Just to make ends meet. | :14:15. | :14:21. | |
firms gobble up 90% of the national quota. Half the small boat owners | :14:21. | :14:27. | |
round here are said to have gone out of business. The Government agreed | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
recently to give small boats a fairer share of the cash. But it was | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
challenged in the High Court by the big firms. The court rejected that | :14:37. | :14:44. | |
challenge. So quotas for the little guys will go up. I think it is | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
marvellous! Absolutely unbelievable! I didn't think for a minute we would | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
get the verdict. We were up against great opposition with lots of money, | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
lots of money! And we are just little boys... For the big fishing | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
firms, the High Court decision has come as a blow. We have considered | :15:02. | :15:08. | |
an appeal. That will be considered fully by the members of the UK | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
Association and we may be returning to the High Court in the autumn. | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
There is just �1.5 million worth of quota being reallocated now. But | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
small fishermen hope it is the start of a trend. Today's court decision | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
is the latest positive development on fisheries. Just a few weeks ago, | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
the European Union voted to end the practice of over exploiting fish | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
stocks. That will be good for the fish and ultimately for the | :15:34. | :15:44. | |
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fishermen and for us all. Our top story this lunchtime: The Royal Mail | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
is to be privatised in the biggest sell-off for decades. But unions | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
have attacked the plans. And still to come here, one week on | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
from the passing of Egypt's President Morsi, we meet one family | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
divided by the conflict. Later on BBC London, Camden's very | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
own codebreakers, how this council is the first to have computer club | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
after school for all primaries. And we see how Middlesex will cope | :16:12. | :16:22. | |
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with the loss of its captain, who is Australia and Andy Murray at | :16:25. | :16:32. | |
Wimbledon, it has already been a vintage summer of sport. Now one of | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
the oldest and fiercest rivalries, the battle for the Ashes between | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
England and Australia, has begun at Trent Bridge in Nottingham. England | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
captain Alastair Cook won the toss and batted. At lunch, they were 98 - | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
two. Sports correspondent Joe Wilson is at Trent Bridge, hello to you, | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
Joe. Thanks very much, sold-out | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
excitement here in Nottingham, we have been waiting two and a half | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
years for the resumption of the ashes, that great rivalry between | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
England and Australia, based a lot on history but partly on mystery. | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
Even though this year England seem to have the better side, test match | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
cricket has this wonderful habit of being unpredictable, and the balance | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
can shift between the teams even over the course of a morning. I | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
think that has been very much the case here today, with England | :17:17. | :17:25. | |
reaching lunch, as you say, 98-2. One last attempt to raise the | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
atmosphere before the start of play above Nottingham, the Red Arrows, | :17:29. | :17:35. | |
the ultimate example of speed under control. With a red ball, James | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
Pattinson tried something similar, unleashing the first delivery of the | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
series, almost ending up with first slip. In overcast conditions which | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
always please bowlers, Alastair Cook had decided to bat, and there he | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
was, calmly manoeuvring the ball to the boundary. Seven minutes in, the | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
first Ashes four, classic Alastair Cook style. After some nervy | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
moments, Joe Root was on his way, this is its first match as an | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
opening batsman for England, deep faith in his ability. Australia are | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
building their future on the broad shoulders of the young pace bowlers, | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
Pattinson in particular picked to do just this. Getting rid of Alastair | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
Cook is a source of celebration at any time. If you get him out for | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
13, you are really in luck. If there is a glimmer of light for the | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
bowlers, Jonathan Trott's job is to slam the door shut. Actually, today | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
he was in expansive mode. His first 12 runs were formed of three fours. | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
The subplots to Australian cricket is the search for the new Shayne | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
won, and the latest candidate is just 19, thrusting for his debut, | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
note gently for four office first delivery. Balls of the century only | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
happen once a century. England progressed happily passed 50. | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
Sometimes their balls are just too good, 78-2, Australia suddenly empty | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
used again. It only takes a wicked. I can tell you that Kevin Pietersen | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
did offer a chance to the wicket-keeper just before lunch, not | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
taken, and that could be expensive, he is the one man who could make | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
England feel dominant by the close of play. He is on ten, Jonathan | :19:09. | :19:19. | |
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Trott... Enough for England to Egypt's state prosecutor has issued | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
an arrest warrant for the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohammed | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
Badie. He is accused of inciting violence on Monday that left more | :19:26. | :19:32. | |
than 50 people dead. The division in Egypt between supporters and | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
opponents of the deposed President Mohamed Morsi have been put into | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
sharp focus by the events of the last week. But as Cairo | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
correspondent Aleem Maqbool reports, it is families, too, who are being | :19:44. | :19:50. | |
driven apart by the continuing conflict. | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
For many in the new Egypt, he is a hero. Acme was one of the most vocal | :19:55. | :20:04. | |
opponents of Mohamed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood. But he paid a | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
price for that. He was jailed for insulting Morsi, calling him a | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
murderer on a talk show. Just a couple of weeks ago while his son | :20:13. | :20:19. | |
was still in jail, we met Ahmed's father, a staunch supporter of the | :20:19. | :20:28. | |
then-President Morsi. He told us that he had gone too far in | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
criticising the Muslim Brotherhood. Since we saw him, everything has | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
changed. President Morsi was deposed, and soon after Ahmed was | :20:34. | :20:41. | |
released. TRANSLATION: This is the Egypt we have been dreaming of, now | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
the revolution is back on track. with that, Ahmed went to join in | :20:46. | :20:56. | |
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celebrations at the demise of the different gathering, the funeral of | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
a young Brotherhood supporter, killed, it appears, by security | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
forces at a sit in protest. It is Ahmed's father that is the activist | :21:06. | :21:13. | |
now. The shock at what has happened is huge, he says, but we have hope | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
that democracy will be brought back and the military coup will be | :21:17. | :21:23. | |
overturned. These funerals and the rallies and | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
politics are off-limits when the family sits together and talks. It | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
is the only way to stop arguments. There are extremes in this country | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
right now. On one side, there is euphoria, the other side a | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
shellshocked, and that exists within Ahmed's on family, but he and his | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
father have been able to work through things and compromise. The | :21:43. | :21:52. | |
question is, of course, can Egypt? Police are linking the death of | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
seven young people in Scotland to a batch of fake ecstasy tablets. Most | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
of those who died were in their early 20s and are thought to have | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
taken tablets containing the dangerous toxic stimulant PMA. Let's | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
get more from Scotland correspondent Laura Bicker, who is following this | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
story. What more of the police saying? These tablets are thought to | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
be green in colour and have a distinctive Rolex crown stamped on | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
top of them. The latest person to die after taking them is an | :22:22. | :22:30. | |
18-year-old woman from Alexandria in West Dunbartonshire. Now, she took | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
them in the early hours of Tuesday morning with three others. They, | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
too, were admitted to hospital, and a 25-year-old man is still being | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
treated in hospital. Now, police say that they believe these tablets | :22:39. | :22:45. | |
contain the chemical PMA, and that causes extremes in temperature. It | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
can cause hallucinations, and in some cases convulsions. Now what | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
they say is that they are particularly concerned ahead of this | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
weekend's music Festival, T in the park, where amnesty bins will be | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
provided, and they say taking these tablets is gambling with your life. | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
Thank you very much, Laura Bicker. The Irish parliament will blog | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
tonight on controversial new abortion legislation that has led to | :23:08. | :23:14. | |
a fierce row between church and state. -- vote. The church believes | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
the legislation will lead for the first time two abortions were a | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
mother's life is not at immediate risk. But the Irish government is | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
arguing that the bill will simply clarify existing laws. | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
Air pollution is having a serious and sometimes fatal impact on people | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
with weak hearts, according to a study funded by the British Heart | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
Foundation. The charity says thousands of people are affected | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
every year and that the government must do more to improve air | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
quality. Ministers have already admitted that EU limits will be | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
breached in 15 areas of the country until 2020. Health correspondent | :23:49. | :23:56. | |
Sophie Hutchinson reports. Joanne is often breathless due to | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
heart failure. It is a serious condition which means her heart | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
struggles to pump efficiently. prefer not to go out when it is | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
cold, because it really affects my chest, and I prefer not to go out | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
when it is too smugly and horrible, because it does make my breathing | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
very laboured, and it does make it worse. Today a report published by | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
the Lancet suggests that air pollution could have harmful and | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
sometimes fatal effects on people with heart failure. Researchers | :24:24. | :24:26. | |
reviewed data from 12 countries and found a direct link between raised | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
levels of traffic pollution and an increase in admissions to hospital | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
or deaths from the condition. The risk was from short periods of | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
exposure and came from harmful gases and particles emitted by diesel | :24:39. | :24:46. | |
powered vehicles. Pollution in UK cities massively exceed agreed | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
safety limits, and every year it is estimated that around 30,000 people | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
die prematurely as a result. The campaigners say that vulnerable | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
people should be warned when pollution peaks so that they can | :24:59. | :25:06. | |
protect themselves. But researchers say that even modest improvements in | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
air quality could save lives. failure affect about three quarters | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
of a million people in the UK, and we would estimate that a modest | :25:14. | :25:22. | |
reduction in our permission would probably reduce admissions by around | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
1000 patients. The Government has said air quality limits will be | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
breached in 15 regions in the UK until 2020, but it stresses it is | :25:30. | :25:37. | |
committed to improving the situation to protect public health. | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
Now, the UEFA women's European championship kicks off in Sweden | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
today, and for the first time the BBC will be showing every England | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
match live on television. And England, of course, will be hoping | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
to improve on their performance of four years ago, when they made it to | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
the final but lost to Germany. Let's go to sports correspondent Sally | :25:58. | :26:04. | |
Nugent, who is at the England team hotel in Linkoping. Sally, hello, | :26:04. | :26:10. | |
good afternoon to you, an exciting period ahead. | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
Yeah, interesting times, I can tell you first of all that we have got | :26:14. | :26:16. | |
fantastic access here at the England team hotel. This is not something | :26:16. | :26:22. | |
you would get in the men's game. Just down the corridor behind me, | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
behind a closed door, the England coach has just gone in with their | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
players, and we had a lovely shot for you outside the England team | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
hotel, but it is pouring so heavily now, a storm was closing in, so we | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
have had to come inside. That is one difference, great access to the | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
teams, players and coaching staff. The other thing is that Sweden is a | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
natural home for women's football. It is not unusual to see women and | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
girls playing football in this country, there is a fantastic club | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
network, and in fact the old station are expected to do rather well in | :26:52. | :27:00. | |
this tournament, too. How are we expected to do, England? | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
Well, interestingly, as you mentioned, yes, England did rather | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
well in 2009, they made it all the way to the final but were beaten by | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
Germany in a bruising game they lost 6-2, which properly does not reflect | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
how well they played at the time. Hope Powell says that this time | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
around they have learned lessons, they are prepared, and she does have | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
the strength in depth to cover this tournament right the way to the | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
final on July 28. So let's see how that goes. The other big change here | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
is the coverage that you mentioned, unprecedented television coverage of | :27:31. | :27:36. | |
women's football, all over the BBC, television, radio and online, or | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
starting tonight on BBC Three, watch if you can! | :27:40. | :27:45. | |
Thank you very much, Sally Nugent, pouring with rain there, mercifully | :27:45. | :27:55. | |
:27:55. | :27:57. | ||
not like this year, let's find out for rain, I keep having to water my | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
garden. Mixed weather in Sweden and here in the UK, not all scorching | :28:01. | :28:05. | |
sunshine, and indeed many places are saying much more clouds today as a | :28:05. | :28:08. | |
result temperature is quite a bit lower as well. For the cricket as | :28:08. | :28:13. | |
well, we have got overcast skies as well, quite grey, and it will stay | :28:13. | :28:16. | |
that way into the early part of the afternoon session. It should slowly | :28:16. | :28:21. | |
brighten up with sunshine after tea, but yesterday it was about 27 | :28:21. | :28:24. | |
degrees at Trent Bridge, approaching 30 degrees in York and hurt as | :28:24. | :28:30. | |
well. But today, in some places, temperatures are 10 degrees lower, | :28:30. | :28:33. | |
and it is much cooler because we have got all this cloud. And this | :28:33. | :28:36. | |
cloud has been spilling its way southwards down the eastern side of | :28:36. | :28:39. | |
England and Scotland, it is working its way slowly towards the | :28:39. | :28:43. | |
south-west, but the highest temperatures today could well be in | :28:43. | :28:47. | |
the south-west of England, likely to get 28 Celsius, which is 82 | :28:47. | :28:49. | |
Fahrenheit. Because here in the south-west we have got the best of | :28:50. | :28:53. | |
the sunshine, a good amount of sunshine in Wales, one or two than | :28:53. | :28:57. | |
three showers could get set up over the mountains later today. The | :28:57. | :29:00. | |
south-east of England, not as warm as yesterday, patchy cloud coming | :29:00. | :29:03. | |
in, but breaking up as it moves through Midlands. We may get late | :29:04. | :29:08. | |
sunshine down the east coast as the cloud begins to break, some sunshine | :29:08. | :29:10. | |
across Northern Ireland and the western side of Scotland, and it is | :29:10. | :29:15. | |
here that we will see the highest temperatures. Similar to where we | :29:15. | :29:19. | |
were yesterday, in actual fact. So this evening a slightly cooler feel | :29:19. | :29:23. | |
across many areas, the cloud, as it heads towards the south-west, | :29:23. | :29:26. | |
continues to become or substantial, flatter looking cloud heading in | :29:26. | :29:29. | |
from the North Sea into central and eastern areas of England later in | :29:29. | :29:32. | |
the night. Temperatures for most of us, thankfully, will be a little bit | :29:32. | :29:37. | |
lower than they have been over the past few nights, a more comfortable | :29:37. | :29:40. | |
night for sleeping. Early morning mist and fog in Northern Ireland, | :29:40. | :29:43. | |
western Scotland, grey cloud across central and eastern areas burning | :29:43. | :29:47. | |
back to the coast, and as you can see, it ends into a nice day with | :29:47. | :29:50. | |
lots of sunshine around, when is quite light, and whilst it is | :29:50. | :29:53. | |
slightly cooler in the south-west, most places will see temperatures | :29:53. | :29:57. | |
similar to today. Further north and east, it should feel warmer than | :29:57. | :30:01. | |
today, with more sunshine, as we have seen. As we head into Friday, | :30:01. | :30:05. | |
again, someone sunshine across most places, a bit of a cloudy start | :30:05. | :30:08. | |
across East Anglia and the south-east of England, one or two | :30:08. | :30:10. | |
than three showers could hop off in Northern Ireland and over the | :30:10. | :30:15. | |
mountains of Scotland as well. -- thundery showers. Over the weekend, | :30:15. | :30:22. | |
turning cooler and more cloudy in Scotland and Northern Ireland. One | :30:22. | :30:25. | |
or two thundery showers in England and Wales, cabbages peaking at 30 | :30:25. | :30:35. | |
:30:35. | :30:35. | ||
degrees in the south-east on lunchtime: The Royal Mail is to be | :30:35. | :30:39. | |
privatised in the biggest sell-off for decades. The Government says the | :30:39. | :30:44. | |
sale will give Royal Mail a long-term sustainable future. And | :30:44. | :30:49. | |
one of Britain's biggest unions has given a stark warning about Ed | :30:49. | :30:54. | |
Miliband's proposals to reform Labour links with the trade unions. | :30:54. | :30:57. |