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One of the big six energy suppliers announces its raising its prices | :00:06. | :00:14. | |
again this autumn. Average bill for millions of SSE's customers will go | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
up by about 8% from next month, roughly £2 more per week. Downing | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
Street says the prime Minister will be looking at what can be done to | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
help struggling families. Also this lunchtime, privatising the Royal | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
Mail, why small investors look set to be favoured over those wanting to | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
buy large numbers of shares. A step closer to finding a drug to stop | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
diseases like Alzheimer's, but British scientists say it is still | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
more than a decade away. The Desert Rats head to Helmand to help pack up | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
the last sizeable British forced to go to Afghanistan before the | :00:49. | :00:55. | |
pull-out next year. And India's record-breaking batsman Sachin | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
Tendulkar announces he will be calling it a day next month after he | :00:57. | :01:04. | |
plays his 200th test match. Later on BBC London, the latest from | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
the Mark Duggan inquest as a firearms officer is questioned on | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
his role. And London's lost bikes, thousands recovered from thieves but | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
never reclaimed by their owners. Good afternoon and welcome to the | :01:14. | :01:38. | |
BBC News at one. The energy supplier SSE has become the first of the big | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
six companies to announce that their prices will go up in the autumn. | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
Millions of their customers will find the average bills rising by | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
about £2 a week from the middle of next month. The company is blaming | :01:48. | :01:54. | |
development fees and a jump in wholesale costs. Downing Street says | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
the prime minister understands the pressure family budgets are under | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
and will look at what more can be done. | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
It is the news households have been dreading. Just as the cold weather | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
arrives, millions of SSE's customers are now facing higher bills. As the | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
company responds to rising costs. 85% of the bill is actually outside | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
of most energy companies' control. There are three main reasons, the | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
cost of getting energy to people was Matt Holmes, the cost of buying | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
energy and the government charges. It means that from the middle of | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
next month SSE is back tariffs will rise by 8.2% on average. Making an | :02:31. | :02:39. | |
average Yule fuel bill around £1380, up more than £100 a year. But there | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
will be regional variations, with a 7% rise for customers in northern | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
England and southern Scotland and almost 10% rise for those in the | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
England and southern Scotland and south-east of England. That is bad | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
news for Gary watch it, and SSE customer in the West Country. I am | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
not angry at the price rise, I am angry at the size of it and the | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
timing of it. The most expensive time of year for gas bills. With | :03:03. | :03:10. | |
energy costs high on the political agenda, today, the blame baying -- | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
the blame game began. SSE pointed to the growing impact of the | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
government's green and social policies. Labour has promised to | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
freeze prices to tackle what it calls cost of living crisis but | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
ministers insist is not the answer. People are not falls. They know that | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
you can't freeze prices and not bear a consequence. If you want real | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
investment to change the face of British energy and get a better deal | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
for consumers, that requires sensible long-term policies which we | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
are putting in place. The companies are putting up prices because we | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
have a broken energy market and they are ripping off consumers and this | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
latest scandal, this latest example, shows why the government needs to | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
act. The companies are trying to blame everybody else, the government | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
is trying to blame everybody else, they are responsible, they are not | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
getting a grip. With experts are warning that rival firms are likely | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
to increase prices soon, consumer groups today urged customers to shop | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
around for the best deal but groups today urged customers to shop | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
millions of families are now likely to be paying more for their energy | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
this winter. That speaks our chief political | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
correspondent Norman Smith, who is in Westminster. This is all going to | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
fuel arguments about controlling the cost of living. Yes, it is if you | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
like the equivalent of just dropping a hand grenade into the whole cost | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
of living debate. What has been fascinating has been the response | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
from Number Ten. It has been a very carefully calibrated response. We | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
are told simply that the Prime really understands the pressure on | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
family business Wash budgets. What really understands the pressure on | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
he has not been doing is slamming his fist on the table, picking up | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
the blower to the boss of Southern his fist on the table, picking up | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
Electric and demanding to know what is going on. Why? Because the view | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
in is the energy companies are having to compete in a global market | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
by wholesale prices are going up driven by ever rising demand from | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
China and although Downing Street say they are going to look at coming | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
forward with some sort of palliatives to curb rising prices, | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
these are long-term proposals they are looking at. Possible easing the | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
green taxes on energy companies, may be ensuring smaller companies pay a | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
lower rate of green levy, encouraging more into the market. It | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
is a hard-headed strategy but a very high risk strategy because the | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
danger as it can be presented of out of touch, it enables Labour to ride | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
a wave of public indignation and I expect that indignation is going to | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
get an awful lot worse over the next few days, when more energy companies | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
get an awful lot worse over the next make their announcements and when | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
people start to get the higher bills landing on their doormats. | :05:46. | :05:52. | |
Small investors are expected to be favoured in the privatisation of the | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
Royal Mail at the expense of those who want a larger number of shares. | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
It is thought that anyone who applied for the minimum entitlement | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
of £750 worth will be successful, but large applications worth more | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
than £10,000 could be turned down. The BBC understands that the shares | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
will be priced at £3 30 when they go on sale, the maximum possible under | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
the terms of the flotation. The mail sale has turned into a | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
the terms of the flotation. stampede with as much as £15 billion | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
thought to be chasing Royal Mail shares. And a whiff of the | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
privatisation fever which once surrounded BT and British Gas. | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
You've probably got to go back to the big privatisations of the 80s | :06:36. | :06:37. | |
and 90s to compare anything of this the big privatisations of the 80s | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
size but interestingly that generation of investors who have | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
missed out on privatisations are now tending to come back for the Royal | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
Mail one. Sorting and delivering this share sale has taken time but | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
all the while the likely proceeds have been creeping up. The minimum | :06:52. | :06:58. | |
you could apply for was £750 worth each and with a price likely to be | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
at the top of the advertised range the value put on Royal Mail looks | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
like hitting £3.3 billion in total. Of course, everyone has a view. | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
Yellow baboon I think it is a good idea. I think companies like this | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
should be run by the private sector. It is outrageous they are applying | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
-- that they are advertising it. I wish it was nationalised. If you | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
want to hold onto the shares it is probably a good investment. It is a | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
good idea, I am hoping to make a few quid. Staff are being given £2000 of | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
free shares while they and other investors decide whether to sell the | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
price jumps or hold on, ministers are facing criticism for not raising | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
enough. The rush for the shares and the possibility that the price might | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
shoot up has raised the question again as to whether Royal Mail is | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
being sold off to cheap and whether the taxpayer is being short-changed. | :07:53. | :08:00. | |
Yet another well respected analyst in the city has said they think that | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
Royal Mail has been undervalued by up to 80%. This is increasingly | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
looking like a botched up to 80%. This is increasingly | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
privatisation. I don't think we can have bungled the sell-off if lots of | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
people want to buy the shares but let me be very clear. I have already | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
said the smaller investors are going to be treated fairly when we come to | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
make the allocation of shares before trading begins. They will soon hear | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
precisely how many Royal Mail shares they will get and tomorrow the | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
nailbiter, do they go up question but what -- but more likely, by how | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
much? Why is it small investors looked likely to be favoured? | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
700,000 private investors have gone for this, which is many times more | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
than the amount of shares that can be allocated and when they are | :08:42. | :08:48. | |
looking at divvying up they have taken the view that it is those | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
people who have the lowest of money who should be rewarded, so if you | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
put in £750, which is the minimum investment, then that is what you | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
are likely to get, but we are also hearing the suggestion that if you | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
put in over £10,000 you may get nothing at all. In between those two | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
you would get a proportion of what you applied for. This will be | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
confirmed later on and as to when you can actually sell them if that | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
is what you want to do, dealing starts tomorrow morning hopefully by | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
then and hopefully by the end of today you will hear how much you are | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
likely to get but some people who have applied online to the | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
government rather than to a broker or by post might have to wait a few | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
days. The Home secretary Theresa May says | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
new laws will make it much harder for illegal immigrants to set up | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
home in the UK. The Immigration Bill will require banks and landlords to | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
check the immigration status of people who want to open an account | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
or rent a home. But Labour says the bill will not address some of the | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
biggest problems in the immigration area. Tom Symons reports. | :09:48. | :09:56. | |
It is a get tough policy that has often been controversial. Finding | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
suspected illegal immigrants and removing them. Now the government is | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
trying to make the everyday environment for those here without | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
permission more hostile. What this bill does is make it harder for | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
people who are here illegally to be able to carry on living in the UK, | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
so access to the things that people have and use on a day-to-day basis, | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
like driving licences and bank accounts, will become harder and the | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
proposals. The fifth Immigration Bill since the year 2000 will force | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
those with temporary visas seeking health care to pay a contribution. | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
Banks will have to check immigration records before opening accounts. A | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
driving licence will depend on immigration status. As will | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
accommodation and landlords will be required to make the checks. They | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
are not happy. Landlords will not have any training on this or | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
support. No helpline to ring. There could be a fine of £3000 for getting | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
it wrong. We feel it is very unjustified to put this burden on | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
landlords. The government has managed to deport the radical cleric | :10:59. | :11:06. | |
Abu Qatada but still says 70,000 appeals against deportation are made | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
each year. So it is reducing the categories where appeals are allowed | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
from 17 to four. This immigration lawyer says most successful appeals | :11:15. | :11:21. | |
fall into those four categories. He questions whether this change will | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
make any difference. The perception is that there is a lot of former -- | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
foreign criminals roaming our streets and they get to stay here if | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
they have cats and that kind of thing but there are a very small | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
number of people who are bringing these challenges and a very small | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
number of those people actually succeed. Fewer foreign criminals | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
will be allowed to live amongst us, while fighting immigration battles. | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
They will be deported first. Labour says shambolic border controls and | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
immigration enforcement should be more of a priority. Ministers insist | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
there are -- they are one third of their way towards their target of | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
cutting net migration into Britain to below 100,000. But this policy is | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
not just about numbers. It is about politics. Theresa May simply | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
believes most voters will agree with heard crackdown on immigration. | :12:08. | :12:16. | |
British scientists believe they have come closer to developing a drug | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
which can stop Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other degenerative | :12:21. | :12:22. | |
brain diseases. In experiments on Parkinson's and other degenerative | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
mice they have shown for the first time that a chemical can completely | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
hold the death of brain cells. The study, published in the journal | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
Science Translational Medicine has been hailed as exciting and | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
historic, although it can be more than a decade before a medicine is | :12:37. | :12:43. | |
available. Pallab Ghosh has more. This is a normal brain. And here, | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
one eaten away by Alzheimer's disease. For decades scientists have | :12:48. | :12:54. | |
tried to find a cure. Today, there are reports that researchers have | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
made an important step forward. Some even described it as historic. For | :12:57. | :13:03. | |
the first time scientists have stopped brain degeneration in mice | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
by giving them a drug that blocks one of the signals thought to start | :13:06. | :13:12. | |
the process off. If it stops brain degeneration in its tracks it will | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
halt disease in people who have already got it and if we can detect | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
early disease than it could prevent a lot of generation, so the hope for | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
something like this is that we are able to arrest the process of cell | :13:26. | :13:32. | |
death, of brain cell death -- degeneration. That is what is so | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
exciting. Hundreds of thousands of people in Britain sulphur from | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
Alzheimer's and other degenerative brain disorders such as Parkinson's | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
and Huntington's disease. So what could this development mean for | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
them? The human brain is far more complex and -- than those of mice | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
and the drug used on the mice have unacceptable side effects, so | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
scientists will need to find a similar one that works the same way. | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
Any treatment for Alzheimer's and any other brain diseases would | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
therefore be at least ten years away. We must be quite cautious | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
because this is really early stage research and we need to do a whole | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
lot more research to really understand what this means, but to | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
turn it into a potential new drug, testing Chronicle -- testing with | :14:13. | :14:20. | |
trials to see if it is safe for the conditions. Some scientists have | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
described the development as a turning point which will provide | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
researchers with an important newly in their search for a cure for | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
Alzheimer's and other debate -- debilitating brain diseases. Euan | :14:31. | :14:39. | |
the Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has been released by gunmen who | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
kidnapped him early this morning. A militia group said his warrant for | :14:42. | :14:48. | |
his arrest had been issued for his alleged financial misdemeanours but | :14:48. | :14:49. | |
his arrest had been issued for his that was denied. It is thought his | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
abduction may have been linked to the seizure by US forces the Libyan | :14:53. | :14:59. | |
terrorist at the weekend. A graphic illustration of Libya's | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
continued uncertainty outside Tripoli hotel where the prime | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
minister lives for his own safety, all is apparently normal. Which in | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
the early hours of the morning this was the scene of an audacious raid | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
by dozens of militiamen. The kidnapping masquerading as an | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
arrest. TRANSLATION: | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
People came assigned with a paper from the prosecutor general with an | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
order for the arrest of the Prime Minister. No shots were fired as | :15:25. | :15:31. | |
government from a group calling itself the Libyan operations | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
revolutionaries room to Ali Zeidan from his room. On its Facebook page | :15:34. | :15:40. | |
the group said it had arrested him for financial misdemeanours. A | :15:40. | :15:41. | |
the group said it had arrested him picture of a dishevelled prime | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
minister appeared later on a satellite channel but many observers | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
see another motive. It has been five days since American special forces | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
captured a senior Al-Qaeda leader. He was also taken from his home in | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
Tripoli. Some Libyans were outraged and felt sure someone in government | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
must have known. There have been quite a lot of incidents of this | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
kind. Why? Because there are in Libya now a large number of these | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
so-called militias which are groups of people who took up arms against | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
Gaddafi and -- in 2011 and have remained in existence and never | :16:13. | :16:21. | |
fully accepted Desmond authority. Libya's euphoria which David Cameron | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
and Nicolas Sarkozy celebrated two years ago has gone. | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
Post-Revolutionary Libya is a chaotic, dangerous place. Full of | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
competing loyalties and power centres. The fact the prime minister | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
acknowledged himself in a recent interview. | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
TRANSLATION: We are in a state of revolution so | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
we have no choice. The Libyan state has no control over the implications | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
of the revolution, because the state is weak. Ali Zeidan was released | :16:47. | :16:53. | |
after just a few hours, a chaotic end to a messy, embarrassing | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
incident and another sign of Libya's continued instability. One | :16:56. | :17:11. | |
of the big six energy suppliers is raising its prices. The average bill | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
for SSE customers will go up by around 8%. These are the boys of | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
Dunstable grammar school out on fire practice. And still to come, | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
challenges designed to challenge young people. The Duke of Edinburgh | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
awards celebrate the 500th gold presentation. They choose the things | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
they want to do, and very often they are the things that might interest | :17:34. | :17:41. | |
them. Later on BBC London: The family of this community worker | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
plead for help to solve his murder. And she is one of London's top | :17:45. | :17:52. | |
skiers, so why is she struggling to secure her place at the Winter | :17:52. | :17:59. | |
Olympics? The last sizeable British forced to go to Helmand province in | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
Afghanistan debate -- begin their deployment today, the 7th Armoured | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
Brigade, also known as the Desert rats are expected to do little | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
fighting now that Afghan forces are leading the way, but their main role | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
will be to pack equipment ahead of the final pull-out next year. Some | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
of the troops starting today will be in Helmand for nine months rather | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
than the usual six. These operations from the beginning | :18:19. | :18:31. | |
have been called Herrick, the codename, but as it becomes the 19th | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
operation today it feels very different to other handovers in | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
Afghanistan, because the fighting on the ground is being done by | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
Afghans. It is a very different place, as more than two thirds of | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
the bases in central Helmand have been handed over and Helmand itself | :18:51. | :19:01. | |
is a different place. A lone piper in the Afghan desert heralding the | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
arrival of the desert Rats, after they won their name in the sands of | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
North Africa. We have been working with the brigade for in excess of | :19:11. | :19:21. | |
seven years. The outgoing Brigadier who said that foreign troops | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
according to the president of Afghanistan, brought only problems | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
was not what he thought was actually the case. The country is | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
unrecognisable from a decade ago, and we cannot gaze into a crystal | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
ball, but I am optimistic that the security forces can deliver | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
sustainable security into the future. Can the British Army look | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
back and be proud of the legacy? Very definitely. It is an important | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
point. The British public are proud of the courage and sacrifice of the | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
British forces in Afghanistan and they should also be proud of the | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
achievement. The plaques on the wall mark the brigade to have been here | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
and/or a memorial to the 439 British lives lost since the decision was | :20:01. | :20:08. | |
made to send troops to Helmand over a decade ago. Soldiers who have been | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
here before now face a very a decade ago. Soldiers who have been | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
different country. This time it is a very different deployment. For nine | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
months we will be in Camp Bastion working alongside the national | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
security forces and the Afghan army, showing them how to instruct | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
and to give them new techniques and how to develop their soldiers so | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
they can fight the enemy themselves. Much of the task over the winter | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
will be packing what they can bring home and disposing of what they | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
cannot, as Britain's Long war ends next year. So the days patrolling on | :20:39. | :20:47. | |
the ground in Helmand are really over. Most of the troops who arrived | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
now will spend most of time here on in Camp Bastion, where I am speaking | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
from. But some of them, rather than being here for just six months could | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
be here for eight or nine and not going back to Britain until next | :21:00. | :21:06. | |
June. Thank you, David. The first of 86 defendants have appeared in court | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
after being charged under a so-called crash for cash fraud | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
investigation in South Wales. A special all-day sitting is taking | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
place before a district judge. Our Welsh correspondences at the court | :21:20. | :21:26. | |
for us. That is at the court. We've seen a constant stream of people | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
arriving at the core to have had to open extra doors to deal with the | :21:31. | :21:37. | |
extra defendants all jointly tart -- charged in this investigation which | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
is one of the largest ever into insurance fraud. They started | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
arriving early, some in groups, others on their own. Many were keen | :21:44. | :21:50. | |
to disguise their faces. All 86 defendants were charged in one of | :21:50. | :21:56. | |
Britain's biggest ever cash for crash investigations. This | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
reconstruction shows the type of scam they are accused of taking part | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
in. Where accidents are staged to make fraudulent insurance claims. | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
Across the UK, it is estimated that this fraud is worth £392 million per | :22:08. | :22:14. | |
year, with one in seven personal injury claims linked to suspected | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
scams. Among the defendants appearing today were members of this | :22:19. | :22:25. | |
family who were accused of multiple attempts to defraud as well as theft | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
and money-laundering charges. The police investigation centred around | :22:30. | :22:31. | |
and money-laundering charges. The a garage on this industrial estate. | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
Officers worked for two years to gather evidence. The garage is now | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
under new management. The constant traffic outside of the Magistrates' | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
Court is set to continue through the day. Defendants will be bailed to | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
appear again next month. At times the defendants had to stand | :22:47. | :22:58. | |
five abreast in the dock. The youngest was a 23-year-old woman, | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
the oldest 871-year-old woman. All of the defendants are from South | :23:03. | :23:09. | |
Wales and will appear in court again in November. The Duke of Edinburgh | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
awards were launched more than 50 years ago. Since then more than 8 | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
million young people have taken on the challenges designed to inspire, | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
guide and support them. This afternoon Prince Philip will attend | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
the 500th gold award presentation at St James's Palace as our | :23:24. | :23:30. | |
correspondence reports. These are the boys of Dunstable grammar school | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
out on fire practice. Taking on a challenge, testing yourself, | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
providing a service. 57 years after it was started, they remain the | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
enduring themes of the Duke of Edinburgh award. They choose the | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
things they want to do and very often they are things that they | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
think might interest them. Nearly always it is a new experience. Any | :23:48. | :23:57. | |
about? Close to me. Helen is 16 years old, from Berkshire, and | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
teaching sailing as part of a silver award. It has helped me with my | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
sailing because I can break it down easier. It has helped me learn how | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
to teach people and talk to people and explain things to people. And | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
to teach people and talk to people also to be part of a team with the | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
instructors here as well. Young women like hell and are now active | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
participants in the scheme, but the Duke of Edinburgh award -- like | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
Helen, but the Duke of Edinburgh award was initially for the boys, | :24:26. | :24:28. | |
and when the girls eventually joined they did not do the physical stuff. | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
Can you tell me how we can get instructors and adjudicators to | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
teach things like marriage and make up and all of the other schemes you | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
mentioned? Make up we can do, marriage might be more difficult. | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
That it did not take the women on to shake off the stereotypes. Over the | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
years, the Duchess of Cambridge was one of 2000 people to have the gold | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
award. And later today the Duke will be at his 500th gold award | :24:56. | :25:02. | |
presentation. At 92, he still takes a keen interest in the programme | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
which is built very much in his image. | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
It's a subject discussed by football fans for years, just how many | :25:09. | :25:15. | |
English players should be in club teams? Research by the BBC reveals | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
that out of all of the minutes played in Premier league football so | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
far this season less than a third of them involve English players. Our | :25:24. | :25:25. | |
chief sports reporter is here. them involve English players. Our | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
England may have given the world football but for more than half a | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
century the Premier league has gone from strength to strength, but on | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
the international stage the country has not met expectations, and now | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
the international stage the country there is evidence that prospects | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
could continue to slide. A study for BBC sport found that English | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
footballers account for less than one third of minutes played in the | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
Premier League, significantly lower than the rest of the European | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
leagues. More than 60% are footballers outside of the UK, | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
although there are opportunities at a lower level as the time played is | :26:01. | :26:08. | |
up by 7% in the Championship. We live in a global world. Competition | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
is not avoidable any more. The real question is for English football are | :26:13. | :26:19. | |
to produce of the needed quality, and let's go to the heart of the | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
problems. It's no wonder England are interested in the Belgian born | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
Januzaj, whose eligibility to play interested in the Belgian born | :26:27. | :26:33. | |
for the national team has sparked debate. Greg Dyke has set up a task | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
force to investigate the reduction of Englishmen playing in the league, | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
but one man says that the trend will continue. 68% of the top league is | :26:42. | :26:48. | |
foreign players. That is too much, and it looks as though it could get | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
worse and worse. England arriving for training this morning as they | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
prepare to face Montenegrin tomorrow night, and Poland on Tuesday with | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
the next year 's World Cup in Brazil on the line. As usual, England find | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
themselves under huge pressure to deliver, but they go into these | :27:05. | :27:07. | |
matches knowing that the opportunities for home-grown players | :27:07. | :27:13. | |
to break into the countries top teams are limited like never before. | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
Roy Hodgson could soon have a World Cup to look forward to, but the job | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
of future England managers looks certain to become even harder. And | :27:21. | :27:28. | |
finally, the legendary batsmen Sachin Tendulkar is retiring from | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
cricket after he plays his 200th test match next month. The | :27:31. | :27:36. | |
40-year-old former captain of India, who holds the record for the most | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
runs scored in test match history, will end his career with two matches | :27:40. | :27:42. | |
against the West Indies. No man has ever done more with a | :27:42. | :27:50. | |
simple cricket bat. Quite simply, Sachin Tendulkar has scored more | :27:50. | :27:54. | |
runs than anybody else in the international game ever. In India, | :27:54. | :27:59. | |
his status is more than statistical. The devotion of his followers | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
crosses into the spiritual, and those who know him well admire not | :28:03. | :28:07. | |
just his cricket talent, but his ability to ignore the adoration. | :28:07. | :28:13. | |
Just his idea about the game, the way he held together his cricket and | :28:13. | :28:16. | |
led his life, all very simple. Never got carried away with the adoration | :28:16. | :28:21. | |
from India and overseas. I have seen the best of Sachin Tendulkar, for 14 | :28:21. | :28:25. | |
years we play together. We were together in school cricket and I was | :28:25. | :28:29. | |
captain of him for six years, which was an honour. He made his first | :28:29. | :28:37. | |
century for India in August 1990 against England aged just 17. By the | :28:37. | :28:41. | |
mid-30s he had made himself a celebrity and statesman. When India | :28:41. | :28:45. | |
reeled after the attacks in Mumbai in 2008, he appeared on television | :28:45. | :28:49. | |
telling his country that he played for India now more than ever. In | :28:49. | :28:52. | |
pure batting terms, there is always debate about who is the greatest. | :28:52. | :28:59. | |
It's easy to forget Brian Lara. He did not play as long as Sachin | :28:59. | :29:02. | |
Tendulkar, he went out earlier, but those are the best two players by a | :29:02. | :29:06. | |
long white in the last 20 years. For many, especially in India, he is | :29:06. | :29:12. | |
unsurpassable and the two test matches that remain in his career | :29:12. | :29:14. | |
will be an opportunity for an matches that remain in his career | :29:14. | :29:17. | |
outpouring of emotion which will make this seem rather tame. Time for | :29:17. | :29:23. | |
a look at the weather with Ben. And it has all changed. | :29:23. | :29:27. | |
It feels like we've been put in the fridge very suddenly and in eastern | :29:27. | :29:32. | |
areas it feels like somebody has switched on a fan as well, and it is | :29:32. | :29:37. | |
cold, and also very windy in the East. Having said that, there are | :29:37. | :29:41. | |
some sunny spells. As you can see from the satellite, quite a lot of | :29:41. | :29:44. | |
clear, bright sky, particularly in western parts. But further east, | :29:44. | :29:48. | |
notice how quickly the cloud start along. That is because they are | :29:48. | :29:53. | |
being blown along on a brisk and strong northerly wind. It piles into | :29:53. | :29:58. | |
the east coast of England through the rest of the afternoon, 50 up to | :29:58. | :30:01. | |
60 mph gusts. The wind is strong enough to give some big waves | :30:01. | :30:06. | |
crashing on to the seafront and even some local flooding. And some | :30:06. | :30:09. | |
showers as well, increasingly confined to the extreme east coast. | :30:09. | :30:14. | |
With the wind, cloud and showers are not feeling anything like the 11 or | :30:14. | :30:17. | |
12 degrees I showed you. Further west, lighter winds, more sunshine | :30:17. | :30:21. | |
will stop although temperatures struggling a little, 12 or 13 | :30:21. | :30:25. | |
degrees. If you get into shelter it won't actually feel too bad. But | :30:25. | :30:29. | |
this evening and tonight the wind will continue to blow, especially | :30:29. | :30:33. | |
across the south-east. As we go through the night they will switch | :30:33. | :30:36. | |
into the north-easterly direction which will bring training across | :30:36. | :30:40. | |
parts of the south-east and towards the Midlands. Further west, clear | :30:40. | :30:45. | |
skies, and where the wind is light across Northern Ireland and Scotland | :30:45. | :30:48. | |
in one or two places it will be cold enough for a touch of Frost with | :30:48. | :30:54. | |
temperatures between five and eight degrees. Milder across the | :30:54. | :30:56. | |
south-east because of the cloud, and the wind will continue to blow | :30:56. | :30:58. | |
south-east because of the cloud, and during tomorrow. The wind bringing a | :30:58. | :31:01. | |
lot of cloud across the bulk of England and Wales. Some of it quite | :31:01. | :31:06. | |
heavy across the south-east. Holding onto brighter skies on western | :31:06. | :31:09. | |
fringes and brighter skies for Northern Ireland and Scotland, but | :31:09. | :31:11. | |
temperatures are little below the average for the time of year, | :31:11. | :31:16. | |
between ten or 15 degrees. Into the weekend, we develop a two-way split. | :31:16. | :31:20. | |
To the north, high-pressure tries to hold on, but in the south-east the | :31:20. | :31:26. | |
low pressure tries to muscle in. The squeeze in the isobars indicates | :31:26. | :31:29. | |
that we will seek a brisk north-easterly wind and some | :31:29. | :31:32. | |
outbreaks of rain pushing across parts of England and Wales. | :31:32. | :31:37. | |
Scotland, drier than some places but still on the chilly side. More of | :31:37. | :31:40. | |
the same for Sunday across England and Wales. Lots of cloud, outbreaks | :31:40. | :31:45. | |
of rain. By this stage the winds will be lighter. Further north in | :31:45. | :31:48. | |
Northern Ireland and Scotland, a lot of cloud, but a chance of some | :31:48. | :31:50. | |
Northern Ireland and Scotland, a lot brightness for the western parts and | :31:50. | :31:55. | |
temperatures still around 12 or 13 degrees. Although the wind will ease | :31:55. | :32:00. | |
a little through the next few days, it stays very chilly. That is | :32:01. | :32:01. |