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The energy secretary announces plans to slash the time it takes to switch | :00:09. | :00:25. | |
energy suppliers to help drive down prices. But Labour says action is | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
needed now. Ed Davey tells MPs he is considering introducing criminal | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
sanctions against any gas or electricity company which menace | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
manipulates the energy markets. The trial of two former editors of | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
the News of the world, Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, here's more | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
evidence about phone hacking at the paper. Syria's ability to produce | :00:42. | :00:48. | |
chemical weapons has been destroyed one day before the deadline. The | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
first broadcast from inside a court in England and Wales. Cameras are | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
allowed into the Court of Appeal. Hundreds of dangerous railway | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
crossings will be closed or made safer. ?100 million is to be spent | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
on rail safety. And more money is needed for regional arts projects | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
admit the head of England's arts Council. | :01:14. | :01:41. | |
Good afternoon. Households should be able to switch their energy supplier | :01:42. | :01:53. | |
within 24 hours and proposals announced by the government. The | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
energy secretary says he wants the main gas and electricity companies | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
to reduce the time to a week and eventually one day. He is also | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
considering introducing criminal sanctions against any company which | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
manipulates the energy markets. The announcement is part of an energy | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
review into competition and prices. Labour says the review that report | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
next spring will do nothing to help with the soaring winter bills. | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
Millions of households are facing higher energy prices this winter. | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
There has been a raging political debate over how to help. In his | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
annual statement to Parliament the energy secretary spelt out plans for | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
a new competition test to ensure the energy market is working for | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
consumers. I will be asking them to look in depth at profits and prices, | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
barriers to entry and consumer engagement. This government has | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
equipped regulators with strong powers to deal with unjustified | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
barriers to competition if abuses are found. They must be addressed. | :03:03. | :03:14. | |
That test will report in the spring. Before that the government wants to | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
make it easier and quicker for customers to switch supplier. There | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
will be a new probe into the account of energy firms and the prospect of | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
criminal sanctions for those who try to manipulate the energy market. But | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
the opposition was not convinced. It is excuses for why they are doing | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
nothing about it, excuses for white each and every time they give the | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
companies what they want and leave consumers to foot the bill. The | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
government has been under pressure ever since Ed Miliband pledged to | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
freeze prices at his party conference. Last week, the coalition | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
finally responded, the Prime Minister announcing a competition | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
test. This week the industry was under fire again over whether price | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
rises really reflected wholesale energy costs. This pensioner from | :04:03. | :04:10. | |
Hampshire is struggling to cope with his energy bill. He switched | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
supplier many times, but the process does not help. It is not quick | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
enough, it is not simple and the tariffs are unbelievably confusing. | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
So it makes it a very difficult job. I have done it myself, but it | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
is hard work. This competition test will not help families now, so | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
pressure is likely to mount on the Chancellor to deliver on the pledged | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
to roll back green levies next month. Our political correspondent | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
is following all of this at Westminster. It is a political issue | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
that is not going away. Is there a sense Ed Davey has done enough? The | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
cost of gas and electricity is the red hot issue at the moment. There | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
is a fierce battle going on between Labour and the government to channel | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
the fury energy customers are feeling into popular, but coherent | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
policies. Labour have set the pace on this politically. They said they | :05:13. | :05:21. | |
would please prices -- freeze prices. That put the government on | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
the back foot. This was a good day for Ed Davey and the Conservative | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
party to show the voters that they understand how much annoyance this | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
is causing people. The announcements we had worked pretty well trailed. | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
Another energy review by Ofgem, looking at shrinking the time it | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
takes to change supplier. Ed Davey wants to get it down to 24 hours and | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
is going to have discussions with the energy companies. There is a big | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
question over how that will happen and what sanction the government | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
will have two force them to do it. Labour remain unimpressed. They do | :06:01. | :06:07. | |
not think Ofgem is equipped to look into the competitive problems there | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
are in the market. It is an argument between whether the symptoms can be | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
addressed by government or whether the whole structure of the market | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
needs to change. The jury in the trial of two former editors of the | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
News of the world has been hearing more about how hacking was carried | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
out and the chain of command at the newspaper. Rebekah Brooks and Andy | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
Coulson along with six other defendants deny the charges against | :06:34. | :06:42. | |
them. This morning's prosecution submissions focused on the Andy | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
Coulson era of the News of the World. The Crown believes it has got | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
the evidence to make him an Rebekah Brooks, the editors at the top | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
table, with the phone hacking operation on the ground. The jury | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
was told about the role of this man, private investigator Glen Mulcaire, | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
who has admitted hacking phones at the request of senior news editors. | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
The prosecutor said he was a phone hacker and a good one. He was an | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
accomplished black. The court heard a tape Glen Mulcaire are calling an | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
O2 call centre. He uses a false name, James Cook, but a correct | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
password, and he asks them to reset voice mail password on someone's | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
mobile phone. That would allow him to target their voice mail | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
messages, even though they thought they were protected. The prosecutor | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
said Glen Mulcaire knows how it works and he knows the right things | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
to say. He is chatty and the O2 employee does not seem worried. In | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
2006, controversy surrounded the business affairs of Tessa Jowell and | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
her husband David Mills. The prosecutor said he would produce | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
phone records showing how in the newsroom the news editor got | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
interested and then made calls to Glen Mulcaire, tasking him with | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
hacking their phones. The record, he said, would show Glen Mulcaire | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
accessing the voice mail and reporting back to Mr Edmondson, who | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
denies phone hacking. As do Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson and Stuart | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
Kuttner, who was not present today for health reasons. The jury is | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
hearing this was all about the newspaper and the editor getting | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
stories that the editor had confidence were true. That is right. | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
The jury heard there was a frenzy to get big stories. It was a dog eat | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
dog world of journalism and the editor had to note the stories were | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
true. Phone hacking was not the only way they investigated stories, but | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
it was a key way. Also evidence about the way payments were arranged | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
at News of the World. She demanded maximum say over big spending at the | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
paper and under Andy Coulson, Glen Mulcaire got a pay rise. Finally in | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
the last few minutes we have heard Stuart Kuttner, the managing editor, | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
demanded formal approval of 221 payments totalling ?430,000 to Glen | :09:21. | :09:29. | |
Mulcaire. International inspectors say all of President Assad's | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
declared chemical weapons production facilities have been destroyed. The | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
announcement by the Organisation for the Prohibition of chemical weapons | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
comes a day before the deadline was set. An estimated stockpile of more | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
than 1000 tonnes of toxic agents and weapons has still to be destroyed. | :09:49. | :09:56. | |
For weeks now specialist international inspectors have been | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
visiting Syria's chemical weapons factories. They have tagged and | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
sealed equipment so no more chemical weapons can be made. The Syrian | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
government did much of the actual destruction, which meant smashing up | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
containers and pipework. Resident Assad is delivering on his | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
commitment, given intense American and Russian pressure. The inspectors | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
are confident they have met their first deadline. They are not now in | :10:25. | :10:34. | |
a position to conduct any further production or mixing of chemical | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
weapons as far as they disclosed. But the inspectors were not able to | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
visit all 23 of the production facilities. They got to 21 of them. | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
Two are in areas being fought over in the Civil War, but the head of | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
Field operations says they found a way round that problem. The two | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
sites we did not visit were in areas that were considered to be too | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
dangerous, but the content of that site were moved to other sites that | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
we did visit, so we have visited and seen the destruction of all Syria's | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
declared chemical weapons capability. But now the inspectors | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
face the challenge of destroying or existing stocks of chemical agents, | :11:26. | :11:32. | |
including sulphur mustard and sarin. That is due to be completed by the | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
middle of next year. None of that will stop Syria's Civil War where it | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
is conventional weapons that kill the vast majority of victims. Some | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
see the chemical weapons issue as a sideshow and claim President Assad | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
is gaining international influence and claim President Assad is gaining | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
international influence ahead of possible peace talks. | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
The family of a man who was stabbed to death in Sheffield as he | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
delivered his last piece in order before starting a new job have said | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
they are devastated by his death. 25-year-old Thaveesha Peyris, seen | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
on the right, was found dead in his car on Sunday. Speaking from their | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
home in Sri Lanka his parents has said his murder has left them with a | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
broken heart. It has been a criminal offence to fill in court in England | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
and Wales for nearly 90 years, but today television cameras have been | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
allowed inside the Court of Appeal. Senior judges and broadcasters have | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
opened the move as a sign of transparency. | :12:37. | :12:44. | |
This is history. For the first time cameras capturing a hearing at the | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
Court of Appeal. I do not disagree he was a prime mover in the custody | :12:51. | :12:58. | |
and the distribution. Aleksandra Cameron QC is arguing that his | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
client, Kevin Fisher, imprisoned in May for seven years on | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
counterfeiting charges, was given an excessively harsh sentence that | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
should be reduced. Since 1925 it has been an offence to film or take a | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
photograph in a courtroom in England and Wales, with the exception of the | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
Supreme Court in 2009. Scotland has allowed filming in its court since | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
1992, but only with the consent of all the parties. Now appealed | :13:29. | :13:35. | |
against sentences and conviction and appeals in civil cases can be | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
broadcast to millions. Today's case represents an historic departure | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
along the road to televising chords, but it is also a cautious first step | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
with the strict limitations and restrictions built in. Only the | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
judges and lawyers can be filmed. Appeals against conviction cannot be | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
shown if there is a risk of a retrial and graphic details and bad | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
language are banned. Broadcasters who have campaigned for decades for | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
the change are delighted. It will be the first time audiences will be | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
able to see what goes on inside the Court of Appeal and that is good for | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
enhancing people's understanding of how justice is administered. But | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
will the advent of cameras change the court process? Not according to | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
this recently retired Court of Appeal judge. They should set out | :14:31. | :14:37. | |
the facts, the conclusions and the arguments. If this first experiment | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
goes well, it could be extended to the judge's sentencing remarks in | :14:44. | :14:52. | |
the Crown Court. Our top story this lunchtime: The energy secretary | :14:53. | :15:00. | |
announces plans to slash the time it takes to switch energy supplier and | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
says he is considering criminal sanctions against companies that | :15:05. | :15:12. | |
manipulate the energy markets. And we are hearing from migrants who | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
make a treacherous journey to Europe that ends in tragedy. | :15:16. | :15:29. | |
And this 25-year-old from Enfield has become this prize winner of this | :15:30. | :15:31. | |
year's Mercury prize. It's almost a month since 366 | :15:32. | :15:44. | |
migrants died trying to reach the Italian island of Lampedusa. But now | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
it's Greece as well as Italy which is becoming one of Europe's key | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
immigration frontiers. Until last year, 90% of illegal immigrants | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
entered Europe through Greece. The numbers are falling, but the Greek | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
government says it is still shouldering a huge burden in the | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
midst of a deep economic crisis. So far this year nearly 4,500 | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
people, many of them fleeing the war in Syria, have squeezed into | :16:10. | :16:11. | |
overcrowded dinghies to make the perilous journey to the Turkish | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
mainland, from where they travel the six miles to the Greek Island of | :16:15. | :16:22. | |
Lesbos. Mark Lowen has been to meet some of those who survived the | :16:23. | :16:30. | |
crossing. It is a beautiful, stunning scene | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
behind me. This is the capital of Lesbos. This is an island that has | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
the desperate stories of migrants who are trying to enter the EU. | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
Beyond its beauty, Lesbos is becoming known as a key frontier in | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
the European Union's fight against illegal immigration. | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
The vast agency, where the hopes of reaching Europe still burn bright. | :16:55. | :17:01. | |
We are on patrol with the Greek coastguard, combing the EU's | :17:02. | :17:03. | |
south-east border for illegal immigrants. It is a key gateway and | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
a perilous journey but numbers are soaring. I hope and I will ask for | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
more support from EU member states. That doesn't mean we are going to | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
stop if this assistance doesn't come. We have to protect our country | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
from the criminal networks. It is a familiar scene, overcrowded boats | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
docking here recently. They are the lucky ones who made it. Plenty | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
don't. Croesus of Europe must do more. This year alone, almost 4500 | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
migrants are tried to cross these waters into Lesbos. Since police | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
increased patrols on the border, to the islands bearing the brunt. And | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
Greece, in the middle of its worst crisis in memory, with resources | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
stretched, is struggling to cope with the influx. We were not allowed | :17:57. | :18:03. | |
to enter the centre where the arrested are taken. Syrians I held | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
briefly and then given six months in Greece. Others are detained for | :18:08. | :18:09. | |
longer and must leave within a month. I feel desperate. They talk | :18:10. | :18:20. | |
to us about the problems they have. I feel very angry. I believe we can | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
change something, and we don't. Most of them, they are like us. They are | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
going away from a difficult situation and they just need to be | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
supported. At an NGO can, we met this Afghan mother and her children. | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
She talks of hopes dashed, her husband arrested and how her | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
youngest almost died. It wasn't worth it, she says. Europe wasn't | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
worth it. Many do drown on the way, ending up here, and only a few are | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
identified. Before leaving for Europe, they have lives and names. | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
Now they are reduced to this. On the four -- ferry to Athens, we met some | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
young students. They paid hundreds of euros to get to Europe. My family | :19:11. | :19:19. | |
say, go out, go out from Syria. Look for a free life. To be myself first | :19:20. | :19:30. | |
and going to Syria. All they have is one bag and their dreams. How many | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
more will follow in their wake before the tide of immigration is | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
stemmed? Greece is asking Brussels for more resources partly to fund | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
the border agency of the EU. But they know here that they may be | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
looking at a closed door. As one official put it to me, in the rich | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
countries of northern Europe, it is hard to imagine what it's like to | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
have the bodies of migrants washing up on your shores. | :19:57. | :20:05. | |
Rescue workers in Niger have found the bodies of 87 people, believed to | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
be migrant workers, who died of thirst after their vehicles broke | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
down in the Sahara Desert. Most of the victims were women and children. | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
It's not clear whether they were attempting to travel to neighbouring | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
Algeria or go further afield to Europe in search of jobs. | :20:18. | :20:24. | |
More than ?100 million will be spent on closing about 500 level crossings | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
and improving safety at others considered to be high risk. The | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
money is part of a ?21 billion package to be spent on the railways | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
over the next five years. As part of the deal, tough new punctuality | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
targets are being introduced, which means the majority of trains across | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
the country are expected to be on time 90% of the time. Jeremy Cooke | :20:41. | :20:51. | |
is in Ormskirk. What we're looking at is a | :20:52. | :20:58. | |
generation of super safe level crossings. This one is control, | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
would you believe, by radar. We expect over the next few years to | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
see many more of these. We will also see hundreds of crossings being shut | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
down because they are regarded as too dangerous. This is all part of | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
this bigger, multi-billion pound blueprint for the future of the rail | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
industry, agreed today between the regulator and Network Rail. It is | :21:19. | :21:25. | |
all about setting the direction of travel for the network for the next | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
five years. The regulator has today confirmed its targets about | :21:32. | :21:33. | |
infrastructure improvement and efficiency savings. But there is | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
also the question of safety. Nine people died at level crossings last | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
year. Until now, 500 of the most risky will be closed, hundreds more | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
improved, with funding adding up to ?109 million. Where people are | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
required to use level crossings, there is always a risk. With more | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
people using crossings, more cars on the road, there is an increasing | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
risk and danger. We need to continue to invest and continue to improve | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
safety. For some, the changes, of course, come too late. Olivia was | :22:11. | :22:17. | |
killed on a crossing in Essex in 2005. Her parents now campaign for | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
safety improvements. It will not be possible to close everyone. But | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
safety measures must be taken at everyone. I would definitely like to | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
see them get rid of half barriers where people can weave around them. | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
We have seen recent examples of people who have gone very close to | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
death. Earlier this year, in Cambridgeshire, a reminder that | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
crossings can still be dangerous. A lucky escape. But while much | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
attention is on safety, there's also fresh focus on punctuality. The | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
regulator is telling the rail industry that overly much of the | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
country aged eight to get nine out of trains running on time. The other | :23:01. | :23:07. | |
message from Network Rail is it must do better at predicting problems and | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
fixing them before they cause disruption. | :23:12. | :23:19. | |
Youth unemployment in the Eurozone has increased again. Nearly a | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
quarter of people under the age of 25 who are available for work are | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
now jobless. And in some of the struggling economies, that figure is | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
a lot higher. In Italy, where theres about 40% youth unemployment, many | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
feel they have no alternative but to join the black economy, with | :23:33. | :23:34. | |
unofficial jobs, Our chief economics correspondent, Hugh Pym, reports | :23:35. | :23:54. | |
from the Lazio region near Rome. Officially, youth unemployment in | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
Italy is running at 40%. But that includes many like Stella, who is | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
working on the black market at a call centre. He is training to make | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
pizza so she can find a legitimate job and hopefully get a mortgage and | :24:09. | :24:15. | |
start a family. How can I grew up a child if I don't have a good job? We | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
don't have any future in this moment. From now to the next ten | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
years, it is impossible here to have something good for you. I am 28 and | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
what am I going to do for the next ten years? The Italian economy is in | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
a difficult place. The unofficial world of work remains a problem. On | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
some estimates, the Italian black economy is worth the equivalent of | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
more than a fifth of the country's official national output. It has | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
long been a problem for the authorities. The police say they are | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
cracking down. This police chief told me that in raids on businesses | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
they had discovered thousands of illegal workers last year. | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
TRANSLATION: It is very important. It hurts the state and the national | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
budget because it means taxes are not paid. Our purpose is to protect | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
honest businesses. Those that comply with the law suffer and fair | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
competition from other companies who can sell their services at lower | :25:17. | :25:25. | |
prices. -- unfair competition. Here, they are often up against a lack of | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
openings because employers find it too costly to hire people. Italian | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
regulation is seen as an article. Another reason young people are | :25:35. | :25:45. | |
pushed towards illegal jobs. TRANSLATION: Before it was a bridge | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
between education and a permanent job that gave you a chance to start | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
a family and make a future for yourself. Now more young people are | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
finding it is the only option open to them. For Stella, the black | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
economy option is a necessity. She and other trainees hope their new | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
skills will be a pathway to work even if it is a long way from | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
Italy, where the recipe for legitimate jobs still doesn't seem | :26:11. | :26:20. | |
to be working. England have announced their team | :26:21. | :26:23. | |
for the first of the Autumn rugby internationals against Australia at | :26:24. | :26:26. | |
Twickenhan, on Saturday. Our sports correspondent Dan Roan is at the | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
England training ground in Surrey. This feels like a unique case of | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
sporting sibling rivalry. England have been training here this | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
morning, as you can see. The squad they have announced to play | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
Australia on Saturday contains not one but two pairs of brothers. First | :26:44. | :26:52. | |
of all, the British and Irish Lions. Then there is the young brothers who | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
pay for Leicester. Tom stars as hooker, and Benjamin is at | :26:57. | :27:03. | |
scrum-half. -- starts. If he comes on, it would be the first time in | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
100 years and all been on at the same time. There is also Joel | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
Tomkins, who was playing rugby and then switch to rugby union. He will | :27:13. | :27:18. | |
start for his debut in the centre. Remarkably, even though his brother | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
is not playing with him, Sam Tomkins is in fact playing for England's | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
rugby team in the World Cup against Ireland at Huddersfield. Bear in | :27:27. | :27:33. | |
mind, England's rugby team contains three Burgess brothers, all of whom | :27:34. | :27:39. | |
pay in trailer. -- all of whom play in Australia. | :27:40. | :27:47. | |
Funding for English museums, galleries and theatres is heavily | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
skewed towards London, according to a new report. Three senior arts | :27:52. | :27:54. | |
figures say their research shows that central government spending on | :27:55. | :27:57. | |
arts and culture in the capital amounted to nearly ?70 per resident | :27:58. | :28:00. | |
in the last financial year compared with less than ?5 per person in the | :28:01. | :28:07. | |
rest of England. Sian Lloyd reports. Technical rehearsals from the | :28:08. | :28:13. | |
Birmingham rat. The theatre has commissioned a contemporary version | :28:14. | :28:19. | |
of this classic comedy as part of its 100th birthday celebrations. | :28:20. | :28:23. | |
According to this report, the arts in places like Birmingham lose out | :28:24. | :28:25. | |
to London because of financial favouritism. It found central | :28:26. | :28:31. | |
government spending in the capital added up to almost ?70 per person in | :28:32. | :28:37. | |
2012-2013, compared with ?4 60 for the arts in the rest of England. We | :28:38. | :28:44. | |
are all having to cope with funding cuts, both in London and the | :28:45. | :28:48. | |
regions. But when the regions are much lower than London, it is harder | :28:49. | :28:54. | |
to observe that matter absorb the cost. London is recognised as the | :28:55. | :29:01. | |
jewel in the nation's crown. At the Capitol's dominant in cultural life | :29:02. | :29:05. | |
is described as unhealthy. Arts Council England, which distributes | :29:06. | :29:08. | |
public money, admits more needs to be done. The arts Council has just | :29:09. | :29:19. | |
published its 10-year strategy. That sets out what the arts council can | :29:20. | :29:27. | |
do, including for the regions. That includes what we can do more. The | :29:28. | :29:32. | |
curtain goes up here tomorrow night on one of the theatre's flagship | :29:33. | :29:36. | |
productions, which are partly funded by public money. They are already | :29:37. | :29:39. | |
working on their funding programme for the next three years and hope | :29:40. | :29:43. | |
that as a result of this report there could be more cash available. | :29:44. | :29:48. | |
Because it suggests a new ?600 million investment programme. | :29:49. | :29:54. | |
Whether that happens will depend on whether the thinking is acted on. | :29:55. | :30:02. | |
Time for a look at the weather. Some words of caution coming up. If you | :30:03. | :30:06. | |
have a bonfire party plan on Saturday, we will get to that. First | :30:07. | :30:12. | |
of all, Halloween. Some of us it is more tricks than trade. Without we | :30:13. | :30:16. | |
started the day with rain and it is pulling away, look to the North | :30:17. | :30:20. | |
West. The heavy showers are coming in for the rest of the day. Strong | :30:21. | :30:29. | |
winds, too. Some gales on the coast. At about 5pm, some heavy showers | :30:30. | :30:33. | |
with hail and thunder running in across Scotland, Northern Ireland | :30:34. | :30:37. | |
and some fringing north-west England. We can further south, and | :30:38. | :30:44. | |
this is just more general cloud and rain in two parts of south Wales and | :30:45. | :30:49. | |
south-west England. Again, it will not further east as the afternoon | :30:50. | :30:54. | |
goes on. If you are heading out, you may get caught in a heavy downpour. | :30:55. | :30:58. | |
There will be some brisk winds around, too. For the rest of the | :30:59. | :31:02. | |
night the windy weather stays with us. Elsewhere in Scotland, for | :31:03. | :31:07. | |
Northern Ireland and England, a clearer spell. The wind is easing a | :31:08. | :31:12. | |
touch. There could be a touch of Frost in places. To the south, we | :31:13. | :31:18. | |
keep outbreaks of rain. All of that tomorrow is go to edge its way | :31:19. | :31:21. | |
further north. Some uncertainty about its northern extent. But where | :31:22. | :31:27. | |
you have got it, it will make for a damp day. Further shells in | :31:28. | :31:31. | |
north-west Scotland, where it will be windy. Elsewhere, there could be | :31:32. | :31:35. | |
some bright weather to be had. Going further south into the rain band, it | :31:36. | :31:39. | |
will be heaviest tomorrow across southern counties of England and | :31:40. | :31:43. | |
into the south-east, where we could see 30 millimetres in places. With | :31:44. | :31:49. | |
rain falling saturated ground, it has been so wet, there could be some | :31:50. | :31:54. | |
local flooding. Thankfully, the weather stumbles away on Saturday. | :31:55. | :31:59. | |
Do we get a break? No. Another one comes in from the Atlantic during | :32:00. | :32:02. | |
Saturday. It may start quite on Saturday but then more wet and windy | :32:03. | :32:07. | |
weather comes in. It may be further north than this. We will keep you | :32:08. | :32:12. | |
updated. Going into Saturday evening, well concern about some | :32:13. | :32:18. | |
very strong winds. Well concern. Keep watching the forecast. -- we | :32:19. | :32:28. | |
are concerned. On Sunday, that has clear. It is still windy. There are | :32:29. | :32:32. | |
more showers coming into southern areas late in the day. We need to | :32:33. | :32:39. | |
watch out on Sunday night. If you want quieter weather, book a | :32:40. | :32:40. |