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At least nine people are now known to have died as a Glasgow pub, as | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
the police helicopter is removed from the wreckage. Emergency | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
servicings form a guard of northern as victims' bodies are taken from | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
the scene. Police are searching the building to ensure no-one else died. | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
The helicopter was removed from the roof, revealing a first glimpse of | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
the damage and debris inside. This incident has been very moving, | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
very tragic for all the people concerned, for the rescuers as well. | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
We will get the latest from the scene. Also this lunchtime. | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
Some of the big six energy companies are promising to reduce their recent | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
price rises as ministers cut the green levies they face. The Prime | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
Minister leads the biggest trade delegation to China. | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
The Olympic diver Tom Daley says he is in a relationship with a man and | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
says he couldn't be happier. People are going to have their | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
opinions and I think people will make a big deal of this. I mean, is | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
it a big deal? I don't think so. On BBC London. The mayor's cycling | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
commissioner is to be questioned by MPs over bicycle deaths as a poll | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
suggests one in five cyclists are quitting the roads over safety | :01:18. | :01:18. | |
concerns. Good afternoon. Welcome to the BBC | :01:19. | :01:40. | |
News at one. The bodies of victims of Friday's helicopter crash in | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
Glasgow have been removed from the scene of the accident. Members of | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
the emergency services formed a guard of honour as they were taken | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
away. At least nine people are known to have been killed when the police | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
helicopter crashed into the roof of the packed pub. Teams are searching | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
inside to ensure no-one else was killed. Our correspondent is at the | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
scene for us now. We We have learned that the body of | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
a ninth person was taken from the pub, just within the last hour. | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
Firefighters as you mentioned there are painstakingly searching through | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
the rubble of the pub, just in case there are any further victim, that | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
has been made more difficult by the fact the roof collapsed just as they | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
removed the remains of the helicopter. But removing that | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
aircraft has been so key to this investigation. For a moment this | :02:32. | :02:39. | |
morning, this city held its breath. In the still, damp December air, the | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
helicopter which had come down with such force, was gently lifted away. | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
Those who saw this crash say the aircraft fell like a stone. And now, | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
the destruction and the scale of the challenge here, is plain to see. The | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
body of the ninth person has now been removed from the scene, and | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
taken to the Southern General Hospital for formal identification. | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
In duers, the wreckage of the helicopter will be removed, and will | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
be taken for detailed examination and investigation by the Air | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
Accidents Investigation Branch at the Farnborough facility. But for | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
those desperate for news the pace of this operation has been frustrating. | :03:23. | :03:31. | |
Last night, Marco's family came to is scene. Who were the people | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
shouting? Did they get them out? We will never know the answer to that. | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
The way things are going we are not getting an answer to anything. It is | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
two days later and Mark is still in there. The ordinary guy in the | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
street, to hell with health and safety. | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
Gp but today, the extent of the devastation is becoming clearer. The | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
removal of the fuselage intact should make the investigation | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
easier, experts say three things could have brought down this | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
helicopter, pilot error, mechanical failure, or engine problems. | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
There is no black box onboard, Air Traffic Control data will give them | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
something about the descent the the radar could see the helicopter over | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
the city. There is a possibility with fuel supply problem but the | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
eyewitness reports say the helicopter was spinning out of | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
control, rather than descending rapidly, which would tend to point | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
towards the tail row ter. This is the moment the families of those who | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
died here have been hoping for, but also dreading. | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
There is though, a great sense of the city of Glasgow standing | :04:39. | :04:49. | |
alongside them, in support. Having spent several days at this | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
scene, I can tell you the overwhelming emotion is ulter | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
disbelief. When it comes to the removal of the helicopter, many | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
people watched incredulous, I spent the morning with victims' families | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
and survivors. A moment to set aside duty. And | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
remember those lost. The hard exterior of this city has cracked | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
and it is showing its scars. Five of the dead have been named. | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
From the helicopter PCs the Mark Collins and Kirsty Nelis and David | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
Traill. Simon McGee and Gary Arthur were killed in the pub. But there | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
are still many missing, and a as survivors and victims families meet, | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
the stress begins to show I want my dad out of there. It is a piece of | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
machinery is more important. As the wreckage was finally lifted free, it | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
was a moment for some to reflect on just how lucky they had been. I | :05:49. | :05:56. | |
remember the seconds, I could not find my sister. How my gut felt, how | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
sick I felt. Not knowing, it is just the not know, it is no knowing, | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
where is my sister? And she's, you said the same. It is a huge thing in | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
such a relatively small pub. We know the size of the pub. To see | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
something that size. Copping out of that, just impacts even more, how | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
lucky we are. The names of more victims are sure | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
to merge over the coming day, along with so many questions. | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
You saw the guard of honour as the bodies were being removed. Another | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
time for the emergency services to come together, to stop and | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
contemplate what has happened here. But now it is some time for the | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
investigation and this afternoon we expect the Air Accidents | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
Investigation Branch to be here and give some kind of update. This a | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
time the city of Glasgow now want answers. | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
Household fuel bills will rise less steeply than planned after the | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
Government promised to cut the green taxes imposed on energy firms. | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
British Gas and SSE say they will pass the sayings on to customer, | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
meaning bills will be round ?50 lower than expected. Npower said its | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
prices would not rise until 2015 unless there are increases in whale | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
sale energy costs. Our industry correspondent reports. | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
Energy bills have been soaring but at last there is some leaf. Today | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
the big six firms have been responded to the Government's | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
proposals which aim to knock ?50 after average annual bills We can | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
say because of the measures we have taken, the average consumer will see | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
a ?50 cut in their bill, and of course we were negotiating with | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
companies to make sure they will pass that cut on to consumer, and | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
you can hear we have been successful. So where do the savings | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
come from? Round ?12 we pay through our bills to help vulnerable | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
households will now be paid through general taxation. Cuts to a big | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
energy efficiency scheme, called echo will deliver up to ?35. Another | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
?5 is being saved in the cost of transporting energy to our homes. | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
That gives a total saying of round ?53. It means the average dual fuel | :08:13. | :08:22. | |
bill, current currently ?1385 will drop to ?1332. Still more than we | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
were paying prior to the recent round of price rises. But when will | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
it happen? Speaking in London this morning, the boss of British Gas's | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
parent company confirmed that consumers would have to wait until | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
January. Why wait until January to cut prices? We are doing what we | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
can, when we can. This is a very important issue, clearly, and we are | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
doing, bringing them down as fast as we can. | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
As for the other firms, eon has yet to announce a rise this winter. EDF | :08:57. | :09:03. | |
factored in a cut. Its 3.9% rise will come in in January. Scottish | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
Power and npower indicate they will cut prices in the New Year, but SSE | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
says it won't implement any cut until April. | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
There is other measures too, including ?1,000 to spend on energy | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
savings measures for new home buyers. Consumer groups welcomed the | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
news but called on Government to go further. Labour criticised the plan | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
They have done a smoke and mirrors deal rather than standing up to | :09:31. | :09:32. | |
them. Only a Labour Government will stand up to the energy company, and | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
freeze prices. St hopes these proposals will take the heat out of | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
the energy row, but will a ?50 saving but enough to make that | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
happen? Our chief political correspondent | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
Norman Smith is in Westminster. This remains a controversial tricky issue | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
for the Government. Yes, and ministers will hope that their plan | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
to lop ?50 after our bill will go some way to take the steam out of | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
the run away train that has been Ed Miliband's pledge to freeze energy | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
bills for 20 months. The danger for the Government is this, it falls | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
victim to what might be called shrugged shoulder syndrome. You and | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
I shrug our should ires and say "Is that it? " People won't get a cheque | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
back in the post from their energy company, their bill is not going to | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
come down, it is doing to keep going up by more than inflation but not as | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
much as it would otherwise have gone up to the tune of a saving of | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
roughly about a pound a week, and some of the big energy companies are | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
warning if network and wholesale costs go up energy bills may have to | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
go up further. Now, ministers say, well, look, we are dealing with that | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
part of the bill, we control. Namely the green bits and Bob, by the way | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
we are not a branch of North Korea where we can tell private companies | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
what they can do with price, however, they are warning there will | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
be a competition review into the energy market in the New Year, to | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
examine profits and prices made by the big six. In other words, if | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
today's measures are not enough, to assuage public anger, we could see | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
further moves to curb energy bills in the New Year. | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
And to find out more there is a special section of the BBC News | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
website which includes a question and answer section on the cost of | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
energy as well as advice on how to out your bills and save money. | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
A man has pleaded guilty to the murder of Georgia Williams, a | :11:34. | :11:41. | |
student from Shropshire whose body was found in woods last May. Jahmal | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
Mason-Blair admitted strangling the teenager in their home town of | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
Wellington. -- Jamie Reynolds. This was a | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
routine hearing that saw a dramatic development, Georgia Williams was a | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
former head girl, who had wanted a career in the RAF. She had been last | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
seen leaving her family home in Wellington, near tell formed in | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
Shropshire on Sunday 26th May. He told her parents she was going to | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
stay with friends. Her body was found dumped in woodland in | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
Denbighshire five days later. She had been strangled. Now today, in | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
court, her parents and older sister listened intently as local shop | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
worker Jamie Reynolds admitted murdering her. He had been the | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
police's prime suspect, he had been tracked down to Glasgow, three days | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
after she disappeared and had been arrested. Following today's short | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
hearing here at Stafford Crown Court her parents issued a statement. They | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
said the pain we feel now is as raw as it was when our beautiful Georgia | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
was taken from us. We do not and will never understand the | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
heartbreaking events that changed our lives forever. Now more details | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
about what happened to Georgia will emerge when Jamie Reynolds's is | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
sentenced later this month. David Cameron is in Beijing leading | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
Britain's biggest ever trade delegation to China, the Prime | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
Minister says he won't shy away from questions about human right, but his | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
top priority is securing British jobs. This report from our Beijing | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
correspondent. It contained flash photography. | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
As David Cameron's learning, China is a ricing power, flexing its | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
muscles. He wanted this visit to happen | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
months ago but China made his wait. Piqued he met the Dalai Lama in | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
London last year. Mr Cameron says partnering with China will help | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
Britain prosper. David Cameron says he wants this to | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
be the beginning of a new relationship with China. Some say he | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
is selling is out on human right, going soft in his desire to do | :14:05. | :14:13. | |
deals. Since his last visit, China's economy has grown so fast it has | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
added the equivalent of the entire British xa in three years. China now | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
has financial muscle. Mr Cameron wants investment. In high speed rail | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
an nuclear power. So he made no mention of Tibet. I see China's rise | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
as an opportunity, not just for the people of this country, but for | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
Britain, and for the world. And he agreed to one Chinese demand. | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
A press conference with no questions from the press. | :14:42. | :14:50. | |
For its part, China has agreed to buy 100,000 jag a Land Rover cars | :14:51. | :14:57. | |
but when Mr Cameron spoke on human rights in Sri Lanka. He has been shy | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
about the subject here. Does he look inconsistent now? We have a strong | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
and full relationship between Britain and China and that includes | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
human rights dialogue. We are one of the few countries to have that | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
relationship with China, but very much top of for me here is making | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
sure we secure the British jobs at home and that British investment, to | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
help achieve economic growth. That dialogue critics say is allow | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
level meeting, a way of shunting awkward issues to one side. This is | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
where he could have raised them. Meeting China's President. The | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
diplomatic high point of this visit. But dealing with a rising China | :15:36. | :15:42. | |
isn't simple. The question is, what compromises do you make. Our top | :15:43. | :15:52. | |
story: Emergency services form a guard of honour as the bodies of | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
victims of the helicopter crash in Glasgow are taken from the scene. | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
Still to come, it has been called Cyber Monday. Today be the biggest | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
online shopping day in history? Later on BBC London: Soldiering on - | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
how former servicemen and women can benefit from turning their military | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
skills into potential business opportunities. | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
And we meet the artist commissioned by Giorgio Armani to turn old pairs | :16:15. | :16:15. | |
of jeans into works of art. Next month the restrictions on | :16:16. | :16:31. | |
Bulgarians and Romanians who want to come to work in the UK will be | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
lifted. It means they, like others in the EU, and find employment in | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
Britain and potentially claim benefits. No one knows yet how many | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
will actually decide to come here. But they're having estimates. Last | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
week David Cameron announced plans to limit benefits for new European | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
migrants and moved that Mac -- a move criticised by experts. | :16:54. | :17:01. | |
They have a very different attitude towards this whole issue here in | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
Bulgaria. I was talking this morning to one analyst of the whole | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
migration issue. He said he is not expecting a mass exodus of | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
Bulgarians to the UK, come January the 1st. He says that over the years | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
they have already been able to travel across the EU to look for | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
work and Britain is not the top destination. This is a similar | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
situation to one that I found a few days ago in Romania, the other | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
country that is being affected by the changes. | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
This is one of your's poorest countries, and many wish to escape | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
from here. TRANSLATION: Joan Valcan's family went to Spain | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
ten years ago. TRANSLATION: Spain has more | :17:44. | :17:58. | |
opportunities. My daughters say they would like to come home one day. I | :17:59. | :18:05. | |
would like them to. But some, like this man, say many young notches | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
Britain. He has already worked there on a building site. Even under the | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
current restrictions, he and fellow Romanians were able to go to the UK | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
and look for work. He believes relaxing the rules will change | :18:19. | :18:27. | |
little. It is around ten years that we have had people going to the UK. | :18:28. | :18:34. | |
By the time I went there, 2006, I worked on a site where there were 70 | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
Romanians and the company was Romanian. In an old communist built | :18:41. | :18:47. | |
cultural Centre, jobs fair to attract people to the West. Among | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
them, Andrea Hangan, dentist. I do thought about working in England? | :18:54. | :19:01. | |
Yes, -- have you thought. Yes, but I have decided that Ireland is better. | :19:02. | :19:09. | |
I know people there. Lots of people do still want to leave Romania. They | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
are looking for better jobs, better wages, better living editions. In | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
fact, this migration has been going on now for years. What is impossible | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
to predict is whether the change in the rules is going to accelerate the | :19:22. | :19:28. | |
process. Already, though, Cristian Nikolaie has made his decision. When | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
the revelations change, he will be able to apply for any job, and | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
therefore to escape the incredibly low wages paid here. 200, maximum | :19:38. | :19:46. | |
300 euros per month. So when the rule changes come in, will you try | :19:47. | :19:53. | |
to go back to Britain? Of course. I am going. Getting out will get | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
easier. But many did not wait for this moment to migrate across | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
Europe. They have already left, and they are building lies elsewhere. | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
Another interesting thing I have picked up on here in Bulgaria is | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
that, like Romania, it is worried about all these people leaving over | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
the years. They call it the brain drain. They are losing intelligent | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
people and manual workers. That is doing nothing for their own | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
economies. There is more on how the changes to | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
EU migration could affect people across the UK with special reports | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
today on the ABC News Channel and on many Loch Ewe radio programmes. | :20:32. | :20:39. | |
-- the BBC News Channel. People are still protesting in Kiev to demand | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
the resignation of the president. They are angry at his refusal to | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
sign a deal on closely, ties with the EU because of pressure from | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
neighbouring Russia. In Kiev, they were displaying people | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
power. Protesters took to the streets to paralyse the government. | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
They set up roadblocks of rubbish bins to stop officials getting to | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
work. At government headquarters, no door was left unguarded. Protesters | :21:11. | :21:19. | |
are continuing to occupy independent square demanding -- Independence | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
Square. They are demanding closer links with Europe. Thousands of | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
people spent the night here. This is what they spent all night doing, | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
dobbing barricades. It took huge pieces of wood, big sheets of metal, | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
they put them all around here, to stop the police moving onto the | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
square. Yesterday there were violent clashes between riot police and | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
protesters. More than 100 people were injured. The opposition demands | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
that President Yanukovych designs. The president has made quiet. These | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
demonstrators told me they are not surprised. TRANSLATION: Whenever | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
people take to the streets, our president runs away. He is a coward. | :22:03. | :22:09. | |
Not everyone in this country wants closer links with the European | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
Union. But these people believe that Ukraine's future lies to the west. A | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
blame their president for holding them back from Europe. | :22:17. | :22:25. | |
The Prime Minister of Thailand has rejected demands for her to resign | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
as violent demonstrations continue to rage across Bangkok. Yingluck | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
Shinawatra said she was open to negotiations but said her removal | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
would be unconstitutional. It comes as white police used tear gas | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
outside government buildings were protesters have been throwing rocks | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
and fireworks. -- riot police. A pilot badger cull has failed to | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
meet the targets set by the government. The figures show 921 | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
badgers were killed, a reduction of under 40% of the area's estimation. | :22:57. | :23:05. | |
The living diver Tom Daley has posted a video online revealing that | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
he is in a relationship with another man. The 19 old said he couldn't be | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
happier but admitted that making his relationship public was a difficult | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
decision. -- the 19-year-old. He is one of the poster boys of | :23:19. | :23:26. | |
British sport, Tom Daley, a seasoned celebrity already at 19. Today he | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
had a personal message. In an ideal world I wouldn't be doing this video | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
because it shouldn't matter. He said he wanted to put an end to rumours | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
and revealed he was in a relationship with another man. Of | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
course I still fancy girls, but right now I'm dating a guy. I | :23:47. | :23:53. | |
couldn't be happier. I feel safe. It really does feel right. People are | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
going to have their own opinions. People are going to make a big deal | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
of this. Is it a big deal? I don't think so. He is, though, are the be | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
the biggest name in British sport to have revealed a gay relationship. | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
He's almost a sporting pop star, as he proved in this video last year. | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
With millions of fans on social media, only a handful of athletes, | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
like Gareth Thomas, have previously come out. Another to do so, a | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
cyclist, has warned his decision may have medications. -- ramifications. | :24:30. | :24:37. | |
It will affect how he is seen in the dressing room. In terms of | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
sponsorship, in countries that don't tolerate gay people like Eastern | :24:42. | :24:44. | |
Europe and Russia, there is certainly a loss of sponsorship. But | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
in a profession where many are still reluctant to reveal their sexuality, | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
Tom Daley's decision has been applauded. I'm sure it has been a | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
difficult decision for him because it is something so personal. But it | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
is a transformative moment because it is the first time a major | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
sportsman has come out in this country with the best of their | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
career ahead of them. Tom Daley says he now was to prepare for the next | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
Olympics. He says he hopes his fans will join him on the journey. | :25:17. | :25:24. | |
It is thought that around ?300,000 is being spent on line every minute | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
today as consumers get down to the business of Christmas shopping. | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
Today has become known Cyber Monday, the date we tell/prices and of | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
Christmas shopping. Today has become known a Cyber Monday, the day we | :25:36. | :25:37. | |
tell/prices and offer big discounts. -- the data retailers cut prices | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
ahead of Christmas shopping. Emma Simpson is at the big distribution | :25:43. | :25:49. | |
centre. Just to give you a sense of the | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
scale of this place, you could fit 14 football pitches in here. There | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
are 18 calamities of conveyor belts. They already -- there are 18 | :25:59. | :26:05. | |
kilometres of conveyor belts. They already distributing orders made at | :26:06. | :26:12. | |
the weekend. The boxes just keep on coming. Here, | :26:13. | :26:20. | |
John Lewis is already breaking records. It started on Friday with | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
what is now known as Black Friday, where we saw twice as much activity | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
on the site as anyone day before. People are shopping earlier in the | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
morning, on their mobile phones. They also shopping later on the | :26:35. | :26:42. | |
evening, on the sofa at home. Whatever device they are using, it | :26:43. | :26:49. | |
is all about online. Visa reckons ?450 million will be spent online | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
today on its cards alone. That is an increase of 18% compared with last | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
year. It is a whopping 7.7 million transactions through the internet. | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
All through the summer we have seen cautiousness. It feels now that the | :27:07. | :27:15. | |
sum is here that there really is a big uplift. -- now that December is | :27:16. | :27:23. | |
here. It is easy to see what is selling. Guess what the metabolite | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
is? The tablet computer. It means that on Christmas Day, there will be | :27:28. | :27:34. | |
another spike in online shopping. Retail is taking a new direction | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
fast. Tablet and smartphones are changing the way we are browsing and | :27:39. | :27:45. | |
buying. Mobile cells have rocketed over the past few years. We have | :27:46. | :27:53. | |
gone to 27%. -- mobile sales. We using our devices in different | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
ways. Retailers have had to change their game, too, to keep up with the | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
shift. Cyber Monday could turn out to be another record-breaking day | :28:04. | :28:09. | |
for online shopping. You can probably see some of those parcels | :28:10. | :28:12. | |
coming down the shoots before they are heading off into lorries. They | :28:13. | :28:17. | |
are processing about one unit every second here. The peak for online | :28:18. | :28:23. | |
shopping today is apparently between 8pm and 9pm. You could see that the | :28:24. | :28:30. | |
starting gun for Christmas has been fired. | :28:31. | :28:31. | |
starting gun for Christmas Let's have a look at the weather | :28:32. | :28:39. | |
now. Hats, gloves and scarves will increase in those sales this | :28:40. | :28:42. | |
afternoon. There is a cold spell on the way. It may not last, however. | :28:43. | :28:47. | |
For the time being, it is more of the same. Another rather drab day | :28:48. | :28:51. | |
out there. Most places are staying dry. The satellite picture shows the | :28:52. | :29:00. | |
cloud. There are a few holes. For most of us, it is all out there yet | :29:01. | :29:06. | |
again. The thick cloud covers the UK, temperatures staying in single | :29:07. | :29:13. | |
figures. Parts of Lincolnshire and North Norfolk may see a bit of blue | :29:14. | :29:17. | |
sky. We have seen some breaks in the cloud in parts of Devon and | :29:18. | :29:20. | |
Somerset. Some sunshine here this afternoon. For most of us, it is | :29:21. | :29:25. | |
overcast. A bit of cloud breaking and time. For Aberdeenshire, hint of | :29:26. | :29:32. | |
sunshine here. For western Scotland, thicker cloud. Here we do have a bit | :29:33. | :29:36. | |
of rain. It will pep up overnight. Elsewhere, again, it is going to | :29:37. | :29:42. | |
stage or. Central and eastern areas could turn misty. It is in the | :29:43. | :29:49. | |
central and eastern areas where temperatures are likely to fall. | :29:50. | :29:54. | |
Further north, not as cold because we will have the thickening cloud. | :29:55. | :29:58. | |
The rain continues to trickle southwards during tomorrow. Quite a | :29:59. | :30:04. | |
soggy affair in western Scotland. Turning a picture I in the far | :30:05. | :30:11. | |
north. For England and Wales, dry and dull once more. The fog, where | :30:12. | :30:15. | |
it forms, could be close -- slow to clear. If it doesn't, temperatures | :30:16. | :30:23. | |
are at just two or three degrees. If it does, similar to what we have | :30:24. | :30:28. | |
seen recently. The week -- rain continues to trickle South into | :30:29. | :30:34. | |
Wednesday. A damp day on Wednesday. Further north, behind it, brighter | :30:35. | :30:42. | |
skies. We see some snow showers in northern Scotland. The wind is | :30:43. | :30:44. | |
becoming a big feature later this week. It starts to come down from | :30:45. | :30:50. | |
the North. I cold plunge of egg gets rid of the mild air in the colder | :30:51. | :30:58. | |
feel right. -- a cold plunge of air. It may not last long but the dull | :30:59. | :31:02. | |
weather we have got at the moment is being replaced by a cold wind and | :31:03. | :31:06. | |
some sunshine but also a few snow showers. | :31:07. | :31:12. | |
Every mind of our main story. Emergency services have formed a | :31:13. | :31:15. | |
guard of honour as the bodies of victims of the helicopter crash in | :31:16. | :31:20. | |
Glasgow are taken from the scene of the accident. Nine people are known | :31:21. | :31:23. | |
to have died. Police are searching the building to make sure nobody was | :31:24. | :31:28. | |
killed. You can get all the latest on that story throughout the | :31:29. | :31:32. | |
afternoon on the BBC News Channel. That is all from the BBC | :31:33. | :31:33. |