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The couple suspected of holding three women against their will for | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
decades in a London house are named. The BBC understands the couple would | :00:18. | :00:25. | |
activists. Also this lunchtime. | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
A new law to the cost of payday loans after some lenders are accused | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
of driving people further into debt. The payday lending industry was | :00:35. | :00:41. | |
almost unregulated which led to an acceptable practices. | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
Claims RBS drove small businesses to collapse so it could buy their | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
assets on the cheap. Undercover at Amazon and workers | :00:50. | :00:56. | |
face an increased risk of mental illness. | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
A new 24-hour helpline is launched to help older people who find | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
themselves losing touch with the outside world. | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
Jonathan Trott has returned home out of the ashes because of a long | :01:07. | :01:13. | |
standard, stress-related illness. Jailed for eight years, the rapist | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
caught by the public during an attack. | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
Hundreds of police officers go on control to keep cyclists safe and | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
stop mortalities. Good afternoon. | :01:25. | :01:44. | |
The BBC understands the couple arrested in the alleged slavery case | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
are former activists. The police are investigating claims they held three | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
women for more than 30 years and are looking at 13 addresses. Ali said | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
the three alleged victims, a Briton, an Irish woman and the Malaysians | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
are thought to have suffered years of physical and mental abuse. Our | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
correspondence is with me now. We have names for the suspects who have | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
been arrested? Yes, confirmed by the police. We understand in 1978, they | :02:18. | :02:29. | |
were running a memorial centre in acre Lane in Brixton. It might be | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
described as a group of activists who set up an operation at this | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
building. In 1978 it was raided by police. And the leaders of this | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
group were arrested and given jail sentences. We don't know whether the | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
police regard this as the collect and they have talked about when they | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
said these women were kept as part of a politically, ideological | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
collective. That may be an area the police are investigating. There is a | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
long way to go in this investigation and part of that will be looking at | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
what kind of culture this group of activists is hard and whether there | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
was any potential for any abuse. We have been talking about other | :03:17. | :03:18. | |
addresses the couple have been linked to? The police had been doing | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
house to house searches and checking the records of this couple and where | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
they have lived. 13 addresses over more than 30 years. They have been | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
in this country a long time. The lease are doing house to house | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
searches in the area and they will be going through social service | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
records, because there are some indications they were in receipt of | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
some of the services social services provide, whether it is a then a fit | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
service or a carer service, is not known. But it is something the local | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
council may have provided them with. They have been bailed until January | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
and the police have said it is a long and complex enquiry. | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
A new law capping the cost of payday loans is to be introduced by the | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
government. Annual charges can exceed 4000%. There have in growing | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
calls for tougher controls on the way some lenders operate. The | :04:15. | :04:22. | |
financial authority has not yet said what form the cap will take. | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
This is one and another. And another. This south London high | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
street like many, is punctuated right payday loan shops, providing | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
emergency money to the cash-strapped. It is big business | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
and demand is high. These short-term loans can be very expensive. Now the | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
government once a cap on the cost. We inherited a situation where the | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
payday lending was unregulated and that led to outrageous fees. We will | :04:55. | :05:02. | |
now cap the credit for the payday lending industry. The Financial | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
Conduct Authority wants to introduce the cap on the loans. It will decide | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
what the level will be, but it will include arrangement fees and penalty | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
fees for late payment. Short-term lenders have been accused of | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
exploiting vulnerable customers, hitting them with high levels of | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
interest, sometimes as much as 4000%. But the industry has boomed | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
during the recession, lending to people who are struggling to make it | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
to payday. Which is Jason's situation who is off to look for a | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
loan. I don't get paid until Friday but my bills coming on Wednesday and | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
Thursday and they have to be paid. Five figure interest rates is not | :05:49. | :05:50. | |
acceptable. A cap on the loan would a good because then there would be | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
only a certain amount of interest they can put on. This move is an | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
about turn by the Treasury, which has previously been sceptical about | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
having a cap on the overall cost of a loan. The group representing | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
short-term lenders is unimpressed. The consumer Finance Association | :06:12. | :06:13. | |
said: Labour said the government's move | :06:14. | :06:24. | |
was overdue and there is more to do. The government has to pay catch | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
up on other things, including advertising. The way in which we | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
need to support credit unions. We have been called for a levy on the | :06:36. | :06:43. | |
payday lenders to help credit unions. The cap is expected to come | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
in before the next election. Many people rely on loans like these. | :06:51. | :06:58. | |
The Royal Bank of Scotland says it is investigating claims the 81% | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
state-owned bank drove some companies into liquidation so it | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
could buy back their asset is at rock bottom prices. The allegations | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
are made by a government adviser and are being investigated by city | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
regulators. RBS in the headlines again. With | :07:16. | :07:22. | |
damaging accusations that it drove viable, small businesses to collapse | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
for its own financial gain. People have come to me with these horrific | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
stories of businesses that in my view and their view were not | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
failing. Did have a future, would have gone on to key people in | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
employment and have been put down and RBS benefiting by getting their | :07:40. | :07:46. | |
property at maybe a third, in a lot of places at what it would have been | :07:47. | :07:53. | |
valued at. The allegations centre on its turnaround division, its Global | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
Restructuring Group, where many viable businesses apparently ended | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
up. They were reclassified as high risk which meant they were hit with | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
higher fees, tipping them into distress and in many cases, | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
insolvency. The report claims there are multiple accounts of RBS's | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
internal property unit and then buying assets at cut prices. The | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
government is taking the allegations seriously. We are not just taking it | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
at face value, it has been referred to the regulators. We have asked the | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
bank, some weeks ago, I referred it to them to ask for their reaction. | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
We have to make sure the evidence is solid, but it does seem to confirm a | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
pattern. As if RBS has not got enough on its plate, today there was | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
another damaging report of a former deputy governor of the bank of | :08:46. | :08:52. | |
England. It is said this important institution is not lending enough to | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
healthy companies. The boss of RBS has said he has accepted the | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
recommendations and saying in a letter they have committed to fixing | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
their lending processes. He admitted some customers were angry at the | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
treatment they received. RBS has appointed a law firm to look into | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
the bank's treatment of small businesses in financial distress. | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
The irony is, regulators will read RBS were keeping too many failed | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
businesses on life-support. This bank needs to clean itself up, but | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
the question is, at what cost? Police and crime commission should | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
be abolished and replaced by a new system, according to a review of | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
policing in England and Wales. The review, led by Lord Stevens, says | :09:38. | :09:45. | |
they have fatal flaws and more power should be given to local | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
authorities. The review also says 43 separate forces in England and Wales | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
is untenable and some should be merged. | :09:53. | :10:01. | |
The Hillsborough tragedy where it emerged hundreds of police | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
statements were altered. Plebgate, some officers are currently under | :10:06. | :10:12. | |
investigation. And the death of Ian Tomlinson, who was pushed over by a | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
police officer and died. Some of the cases that were highlighted in this | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
report as damaging public confidence in the police. The commission which | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
has produced this report was set up by Labour. It is chaired by the | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
former head of the Met, Lord Stevens, who brought together a team | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
of academics and experts to examine all aspects of policing. He stressed | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
his team were politically impartial. This morning, there was a broadside | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
for the government. Whilst the government's reform of the lease pay | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
and conditions is necessary, the failure to engage the service in the | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
programme of reform has resulted in a damaging stand-off and plummeting | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
morale. Among a raft of recommendations, the report is | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
calling for the abolition of police and I commissioners, introduced by | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
this government. It says they should be replaced by local policing boards | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
and wants existing bodies like the Independent Police Complaints | :11:15. | :11:16. | |
Commission to be scrapped and a beefed up body to be brought in. In | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
a radical move it says police officers should be chartered or | :11:23. | :11:24. | |
registered in the same way teachers and medics are. This report has | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
taken two years to produce and contains more than 30 | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
recommendations. Plenty for the police service and politicians to | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
digests. Officers of all ranks have argued for a commission on policing, | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
but the government has always said it is not needed. It is 50 years | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
since there was a Royal commission on policing. Labour said a new | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
commission was overdue to reflect all of the changes in the policing | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
landscape. When it comes to this report, ministers said they are | :11:57. | :11:58. | |
putting into practice, some of the recommendations. Others, they are | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
dead against. The attack on Police and Crime Commissioner 's is wrong. | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
I think the overall point that the police should somehow have a wider | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
remit and preventing crime and catching criminals, is quite a | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
dangerous road to go down. In future, the police service will be | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
operating with less money and fewer officers. The team behind the | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
Stevens Report are adamant their changes can be brought in without | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
any more resources. A scheme allowing people to check | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
their partner's police record has been widened to include the whole of | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
England and Wales. Clare's Law has been trialled by police forces and | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
is named after Clare Wood, who was murdered by her ex-boyfriend who had | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
a history of violence. Clare Wood was killed by her | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
ex-boyfriend. She had no idea George Appleton had a long history of | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
violence towards women. Now, a law in her name gives people the right | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
to ask police about their partner's past. It is something her father has | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
campaigned for since his daughter's death, to stop others being murdered | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
at the hands of so-called loved ones. Clare's Law is not a panacea. | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
We have never advocated it would stop domestic violence. But it gives | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
women and men in that situation a reasonable chance to make an | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
educated assumption of what they should do in future. Clare's Law has | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
already been piloted in four areas. Over the past year, 126 people have | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
been warned about their partner's violent past. The majority of those | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
warnings have happened in Greater Manchester. Today, officers searched | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
homes for domestic abusers, the scheme the government will now roll | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
out to the rest of England and Wales. We have seen so far, women | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
have been protected from violence and have left their partners. I felt | :14:01. | :14:09. | |
completely isolated, like a nobody. Stripped of confidence, self-esteem. | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
Lorraine was abused for 26 years. For her, Clare's Law is choice she | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
never had. To empower women and to give them some rights, which | :14:20. | :14:28. | |
obviously when they are victims of domestic abuse, these rights are | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
stripped from them. But there is concern, two people are killed every | :14:32. | :14:39. | |
week by violent partners. Some worry that Clare's Law will do little to | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
help. We have a major problem in this country where thousands of | :14:46. | :14:52. | |
women are not getting the protection they need and deserve. We don't | :14:53. | :14:54. | |
believe this scheme is a good use of taxpayer's money. It is important we | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
help the majority of victims. Domestic abuse claims Clare Wood's | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
life but her legacy is now giving us the right to ask and the right to | :15:02. | :15:16. | |
know. Coming up, making a comeback - how the red squirrel is fighting | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
back against the grey squirrel. On BBC London, the mayor launches a new | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
housing strategy. The England batsman Jonathan Trott | :15:27. | :15:45. | |
has left the Ashes tour in Australia because of a long-standing | :15:46. | :15:48. | |
stress-related condition. He had been struggling to score runs on the | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
tour and has been taunted by the Australian for his lack of form. The | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
ECB says he needs to be with his family and will take a break from | :15:59. | :16:06. | |
cricket for the foreseeable future. Jonathan Trott walked into the first | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
Ashes test match and experienced successful international cricketer, | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
but we now know he was carrying a stress-related condition in | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
Brisbane. He struggled badly against Australia and has not been at his | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
best for some time. It seems the endless touring has taken its toll | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
on another England player. He needs time to reassess and spend some | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
quiet time with his family, and this isn't the type of environment for | :16:35. | :16:42. | |
that type of rest and recuperation he requires. In recent years, other | :16:43. | :16:49. | |
England cricketers have flown home in similar circumstances. Marcus | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
Trescothick, Michael Yardley. Here at this hotel, the ECB insists they | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
have the right support network in place to support him, they were | :16:59. | :17:07. | |
proved wrong. Well Jonathan Trott was referred to by David Warner as | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
scared and weak, England are furious about that but insisted did not | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
prompt his departure. Tension between the teams was blatantly | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
obvious. Australia's captain has been fined for telling another | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
player to expect his arms to be broken by fast bowling during the | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
test. This series worries me about where it could go. I don't think | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
anybody in these teams likes each other very much. Andy Flower has | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
said he will talk to the players and get them to pull their necks in. We | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
are in the midst of back to back Ashes test series almost without a | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
break. Playing cricket for England may be a dream job but it is | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
relentless, and it is not clear if Jonathan Trott will ever return to | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
it. It is called The Silver Line and it | :18:01. | :18:07. | |
is hoped the new 24 hour a day helpline for older people will help | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
combat the loneliness many pensioners feel. It has been set up | :18:13. | :18:20. | |
by restaurants in and has already been trialled in the north of | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
England. Some ask for advice, others just to talk to someone. It is two | :18:27. | :18:35. | |
and a half years since Joseph lost his wife. At times he says the | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
loneliness is unbearable. After being married for 52 years to my | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
wife, who was not only my wife up my life, I find it very hard. I do miss | :18:47. | :19:03. | |
her. After I have finished my little jobs in the morning, doing the | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
dinner, then it really comes home. I don't know, I'm not ashamed to say I | :19:08. | :19:17. | |
break down and cry. Could this be the answer? Hello? It is Natasha | :19:18. | :19:25. | |
from The Silver Line. A charity simply offering a friendly phone | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
call each week. Natasha is part of a group of volunteers, and older | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
people who are feeling lonely can call for advice or simply someone to | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
talk to. When somebody calls for the first time, they can be paired up | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
with a volunteer who will call them each week. They have been trialling | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
it in the north of England, and in the first year they have already | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
made and received 8000 calls. The volunteers say it is already making | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
a real difference. One lady in particular said she didn't have many | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
friends, but now I was classed as one of her best friends, which | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
really touched me. I had only been speaking to her for three weeks. Now | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
it is being extended to cover the whole of the UK. Its founder, Esther | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
Ranson, hopes it will help older people in the way ChildLine has | :20:22. | :20:28. | |
helped many children. We have discovered that older people are | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
reluctant to admit they are lonely, they don't want to be a burden, they | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
don't even want to tell their families. For older people, we are | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
the only free, national helpline open 24 hours a day. For Joseph, | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
that one phone call in the week helps to fill the gap between visits | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
from his family. It says it is not competing with charities like the | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
Samaritans, it believes there is a real need and is expecting a million | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
calls in the first year of going national. | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
Sanctions against Iran could be eased as soon as December after the | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
historic agreement on its nuclear programme reached in Geneva, | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
according to the French foreign minister. The deal has been welcomed | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
by many countries but has been opposed by Israel. | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
Whatever the international verdict on the deal, in Iran there was | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
jubilation. Greetings to the Ambassador of peace, said the | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
posters, as the country's Foreign Minister arrived home. This woman | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
said the greatest benefit will be peace and that we will see progress | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
in every field. Amongst the crowd there was no sense of Iran bowing to | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
pressure. This man said, the world powers were finally forced to | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
recognise Iran's right to enrichment. As he spoke to the | :21:55. | :22:05. | |
nation on TV, Mr Zarif emphasised Iran still have the upper hand. All | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
the measures we will take our reversible and we hope we don't have | :22:12. | :22:19. | |
to do this. All sides appeared to be relieved after days of intense | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
negotiations. For Iran, the hope that crippling sanctions can at last | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
be lifted. For the international community, a vital step forward. | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
Under the preliminary agreement, Iran would neutralise its stockpile | :22:34. | :22:47. | |
of enriched uranium, but the Americans are treading carefully. | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
There is no agreement that they can enrich, they have the ability to | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
negotiate it, but they could only gain that capacity to have some | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
enrichment as some countries do if they live up to the whole set of | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
terms necessary to prove it is a peaceful programme. The groundwork | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
for the deal was apparently laid months ago in secret meetings. For | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
President Obama it is a diplomatic coup after decades of hostility with | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
Iran, but the Israelis are calling the agreement and historic mistake, | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
making the world a more dangerous place. The key will be detailed | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
verification that Iran sticks to its promises. We are embarking on a | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
programme of lifting a certain number of sanctions but it is | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
reversible. You will see when you read the text the same phrase used | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
twice running, which is important, which says that until everything is | :23:42. | :24:00. | |
regulated nothing is regulated. The French say sanctions could be | :24:01. | :24:02. | |
partially lifted as soon as next month. All sides have taken a big | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
political risk with this deal and it will be months before the real | :24:06. | :24:07. | |
outcome is clear. The former Manchester United defender Bill | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
Foulkes has died at the age of 81. He captained the England team in the | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
1958 FA Cup final. He was among the survivors of the Munich air disaster | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
in which 23 people died. He went on to make 688 appearances for United. | :24:23. | :24:30. | |
Prince Harry has been speaking about his final preparations before he | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
sets off on a race to the South Pole. | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
He is in the Antarctic with a team of wounded service men and women | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
from the UK who are competing against two other teams. They | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
haven't set of yet, have they, Nicolas? No, they have hit bad | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
weather. They are at a Russian base, hoping to acclimatise, but they have | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
not been able to do much of that because of the bad weather. Three | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
teams of service men and women from the UK, and it is hoped tomorrow | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
they will be flown to a position about 200 miles from the South Pole | :25:09. | :25:15. | |
and they will walk there. In the last few minutes we have received | :25:16. | :25:18. | |
part of an interview with Prince Harry, in which he has been asked | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
how his family feels about this. My father was a little bit concerned. | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
Obviously I tried to keep him calm but the north pole was a dangerous | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
one because we were walking on a frozen ocean, whereas this time we | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
will be taken around the crevasse. A fine ginger beard being grown! They | :25:43. | :25:49. | |
will be flown to this point 208 miles from the South Pole and it is | :25:50. | :25:52. | |
the race between the three teams over those last 208 miles and they | :25:53. | :26:01. | |
will hope to get there around the 14th of December. They were once the | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
only squirrel species in Europe but many of them were wiped out by the | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
grey squirrel which was brought to the UK from America in the late 18 | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
hundredths. They brought with them squirrelpox which killed off vast | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
numbers of red squirrels but now a group of them in Merseyside are | :26:20. | :26:28. | |
showing resistance to the disease. Just five years ago, the red | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
squirrel population here at this National Trust reserve in the | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
north-west of England was decimated by an outbreak of squirrelpox. The | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
virus carried by grey squirrels has killed thousands of red squirrels | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
across the UK. After it crashed in 2008, the red squirrel population | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
here has started to recover, and for the past four years researchers from | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
the University of Liverpool have been studying the animals up close. | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
So close that they have to catch them in traps. Once they catch a | :27:00. | :27:10. | |
squirrel, the team examines it as swiftly as possible, taking the | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
all-important blood samples. We are looking for the pox virus and | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
antibodies to see if they have been previously exposed. The work shows a | :27:20. | :27:22. | |
very small percentage do have antibodies to the pox virus so it | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
appears they have come across the virus before, and they are still | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
running about healthily in the woodland. This could help reverse a | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
century of decline in this species, but their brief ordeal does seem to | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
leave the squirrel is a little bit cross! | :27:42. | :27:48. | |
Let's have a look at the latest weather forecast now. Plenty of | :27:49. | :27:56. | |
sunshine in this short but that it has been hit and miss for many | :27:57. | :28:00. | |
through the week, but some clear trend is emerging. Mostly dry story | :28:01. | :28:06. | |
for many, but overnight we will see some frost and fork. Just a mild | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
spell through the middle of the week, but will it last? Another | :28:12. | :28:17. | |
patchwork quilt across the UK, as you can see. Areas of cloud and some | :28:18. | :28:24. | |
clear spells in between bringing some of us some sunshine. Where we | :28:25. | :28:30. | |
have the clear skies, that is where temperatures will drop away quite | :28:31. | :28:36. | |
quickly. You can see these are the areas prone to fog and frost, | :28:37. | :28:43. | |
changing as the night goes on. Many towns and cities getting close to | :28:44. | :28:52. | |
freezing, in the Rory -- rural areas it will be a few degrees below | :28:53. | :29:01. | |
that. One change tomorrow across northern Scotland specifically, this | :29:02. | :29:04. | |
weather front moving in so the wind will be picking up but it is a warm | :29:05. | :29:09. | |
front so it will bring some rain but also some milder air through the | :29:10. | :29:14. | |
course of the day. Not as cold as it was this morning through the central | :29:15. | :29:18. | |
belt, and less likely to see fog. A cold start in northern England, and | :29:19. | :29:24. | |
we could see some patchy fog in the mix. Enough of a breeze to keep the | :29:25. | :29:30. | |
mist and fog away in eastern parts, but in southwestern England more | :29:31. | :29:33. | |
likely to see some clear spells with some frost. Generally more cloud | :29:34. | :29:38. | |
around tomorrow across England and Wales, Northern Ireland has a very | :29:39. | :29:46. | |
cloudy picture as well. Temperatures picking up across Scotland, some | :29:47. | :29:49. | |
places get into double figures by the end of the day. That rain, | :29:50. | :29:56. | |
gradually easing through as well. As that edges southwards, the milder | :29:57. | :30:00. | |
air will follow. Temperatures on double figures on Wednesday. We | :30:01. | :30:11. | |
start the week with a chill, milder air visits for a time through the | :30:12. | :30:15. | |
week, but it will not last because we get the chill coming back for the | :30:16. | :30:20. | |
end of the week. The wind will swing back to the north. You can follow | :30:21. | :30:24. | |
the ups and downs of the temperature where you live by looking at the | :30:25. | :30:29. | |
website. Our top story this lunchtime - the | :30:30. | :30:33. | |
couple suspected of holding free women against their will the decade | :30:34. | :30:39. | |
in a London house have been named. They are former Maoist activists. | :30:40. | :30:43. | |
You can keep upto date with developments on that story and the | :30:44. | :30:49. | |
rest of news through the day on the BBC News | :30:50. | :30:50. |