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How to innees capacity at Britain's airports? Three options are on the | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
table. -- increase. New runways at Heathrow | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
and Gatwick top the shortlist and an airport in the Thames Estuary isn't | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
ruled out. We think one net new runway by 2030 | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
is what is required. Essentially it is either building another one at | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
Heathrow or building another one at Gatwick. We'll assess the potential | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
public and political fallout of that announcement, also this lunch time. | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
The family of a British surgeon imprisoned by the Syrian government | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
for over a year, say he has died in custody. | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
Inflation fell to a four-year low of 2. 1% last month. The Treasury says | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
it means the Government's long-term economic plan is working. | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
Shoddy repairs and over-priced premiums. The competition watchdog | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
calls for a shake-up of the car insurance industry. | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
From Australia, the news everyone knew was coming - the Ashes are back | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
in Australia's hands. We'll bring you the details and reaction from | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
the Third Test. And Freeman of the city of Bristol. | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
Sir David Attenborough is honoured for his work with the BBC's Natural | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
History Unit. Later on BBC London: The mayor's | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
reaction it news that his plans for a Thames Estuary airport are still | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
in play - just. And all the reaction from Gatwick which could see the | :01:33. | :01:33. | |
building of a second runway. Hello. Welcome to the BBC News at | :01:34. | :01:58. | |
One. New runways at Heathrow and Gatwick are among the options that | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
been shortlisted by the airport's commission for expanding UK airport | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
capacity. The three options include adding a third runway at Heathrow. | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
Lengthening an existing runway at Heathrow and a new runway at | :02:13. | :02:14. | |
Gatwick. The commission led by the | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
businessman Sir Howard Davies, will also consider a new airport in the | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
Thames Estuary. A final report is due by summer 2015. In a moment we | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
will be live at Heathrow. We'll get reaction as well from Westminster. | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
First, our report from our Business Correspondent Joe Lineham. | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
It's one of the most politically contentious decisions about | :02:35. | :02:36. | |
Britain's infrastructure and it hasn't even been taken yet. Acording | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
to the independent airports Commission, Britain should get at | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
least one major new runway in the South East, to meet soaring demand | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
from companies and consumers. We think one net new runway by 2030 is | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
what is required. Essentially it is either building another one at | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
hooeted Heath or building another one at Gatwick. But we are also | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
looking a bit further at one of the estuary options, in case that could | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
be a serious option. The Mayor of London's dream of a brand new | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
airport in the Thames Estuary wasn't included an option but could be | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
included next year if the Commission feels it offers a credible solution. | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
Boris Johnson was still ebullient about that project, despite the | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
setback. Of I'm relieved that the estuary option remains, narrowly, in | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
the frame. That's good news. We have a chance to make our case. We can | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
argue about the costs and environmental impact. I think people | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
can weigh-up the real options. If you want a hub airport, you either | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
have to go with Heathrow or a new solution. The disadvantages of | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
Heathrow are well-known, but, basically, it is a massive | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
environmental nightmare for loads and loads of people in our city. The | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
Commission primarily looked at expanding runways in the | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
heavily-populated south-east because more than half of all flights in | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
Britain leave from there. The first option it recommends is to build a | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
new runway at Heathrow to the north-west of the economisting | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
runway, demolishing 1,000 homes and neighbouring villages. | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
The second, shortlisted option, is also at Heathrow but envisages | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
doubling the length of the existing North runway to allow planes it take | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
off and land simultaneously. The third option being considered is to | :04:20. | :04:21. | |
build another runway at Gatwick which is using up more than | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
three-quarters of its capacity. Given how major expansion at | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
Heathrow is now far more likely than it was three years ago, how do the | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
local residents feel about it? Sipson still remains a blighted | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
community. We will be at the end of a proposed runway and we will be | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
determined to continue to fight Heathrow expansion, wherever they | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
want to put it. And Heathrow expansion is also likely to cause | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
political uproar. The Conservative MP for Richmond in west London said | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
it is a resigning issue for him If my party changes its position on | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
Heathrow, no ifs or buts, if it changes I'm obliged to trigger a | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
by-election. Downing Street said today it was happy for the report to | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
speak for itself. It may have created the independent commission | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
but it is under no obligation to implement its recommendations, | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
especially if they are politically toxic. We'll speak to Norman Smith | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
at Westminster for those political implications but first our Transport | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
Correspondent Richard wst could the who is at Heathrow. No decision | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
until 2030. We will know sooner about the Boris Johnson plan. Talk | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
us through the timeline? Hopefully we'll know in the next six months or | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
what what is happening in the Thames Estuary option, whether it goes into | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
the shortlist or not. I was speaking to Sir Howard Davies and he was | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
listing through what the big question marks are over that scheme: | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
He was saying - what would you do with the local environment? There | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
are nature reserves, how would you cope with moving them potentially? | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
How much would the transport cost? This is not an easy place to get to. | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
It is near to central London but there are no busy roads or fast | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
trains going there. You would have to build all of that. He says he | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
wants a breakdown of how much all of that is going to cost. Andifiablely | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
what would you do with this place? One of the busiest airports in the | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
world, you would have to close Heathrow. He wants to know more | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
detail of what would happen here? Would they build a new town? We | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
should find out by next summer. As I say the timetable will stay the | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
same. They'll spend the next two years, all of the shortlisted | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
people, doing their homework, giving Sir Howard Davies more detail and in | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
theory, after the next general election, he finally says - this is | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
the one I like. Turning to Norman, as Joe outlined in his report, there | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
could be significant condition sequences for what is already a | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
politically volatile situation? Well, Kate, when the Davies inquiry | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
was set up, Boris Johnson described it as a fudgerama. My feeling today | :06:53. | :06:59. | |
is we have a second helping of that. Everyone can leave the table happy, | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
supporters of Heathrow, Gatwick and even supporters of the Boris Johnson | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
option. But here is the rub, Howard Johnson has signalled he'll make the | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
critical decision on that option in the summer, ahead of the next | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
general election when the whole thinking behind the Davies inquiry | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
was to delay everything until after the next election. If he vetoes the | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
Boris Johnson option, it is argued that will pave the way for Heathrow | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
which will ignite a clat clichl in the Conservative and difficulties in | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
other parties. Vince Cable this lunch time stressed his opposition | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
to any expansion of Heathrow. Today we got fudgerama, but the storm over | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
Heathrow now looks as if it could break before, rather than after the | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
next election. OK, thank you both. | :07:50. | :07:56. | |
Inflation fell to a four-year low of 2. 1% last month. The Treasury says | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
that means the Government's long-term economic plan is working. | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
But analysts warn that large increases in household energy bills | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
have yet to take effect. Our chief economics correspondent Hugh Pym | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
reports. Christmas is coming and every penny | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
counts for shoppers like these in York, trying to stretch their | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
budgets over the festive season. There was some good cheer with news | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
that cost of living increases are at their lowest in four years. This | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
local department store claims there are bargains to be had w some items | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
cheaper than a year ago. There are still examples of deflation on | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
prices in the high street. For the consumer it is a good, early | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
Christmas present. It is their win-win. And if we are looking | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
around they will be able to take advantage of lowers prices. Breaking | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
down the overall figure shows food prices up 3% over the year to | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
November. Clothing was up 1. 3% over the same period but fuel prices are | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
lower, down 3. 6%. Alice drives to work, so she is relieved that fuel | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
prices have fallen but many items in the shop seem expensive so she has | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
to take care with spending. Even in places that are cheaper, they still | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
seem expensive. I like clothes shopping but I limit myself. Cost of | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
living increases have been running well-ahead of average you wage rises | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
which has put a real squeeze on households' spending power but | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
today's figures show the pressure is easing. Most economists expect | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
inflation to settle at some stage around 2% and they also predict that | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
wage rises will start picking up as the economy grows. So next year | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
could bring better times for consumers Over the last four or five | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
years, price inflation has been well ahead of wage inflation. But now the | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
gap is narrowing and over the next year or so, I would expect price | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
inflation to slow, wage inflation to pick up and real wages to start | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
rising again. But today's figures don't include | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
the latest gas and electricity price rises. They could temporarily push | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
up inflation. The price of energy is always hard to predict that. Doesn't | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
make life any easier for households trying to juggle their finances. | :10:13. | :10:19. | |
Shoddy repairs and over-priced premiums - the verdict of the | :10:20. | :10:21. | |
competition watchdog which is calling for a sake-up of the car | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
insurance industry. The Competition Commission has been studying the | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
private motor insurance industry for more than a year and has found the | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
cost of replacement cars and accident repairs is driving up | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
costs. Our personal finance correspondent reports. | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
A costly accident. The victim's insurer handles the repair work but | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
has little incentive to keep down the bill because it is simply passed | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
on to the company insuring the driver who is to blame. | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
The Competition Commission has calculated that inflated repair | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
bills are adding ?200 million to the cost of dealing with accident | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
damage. So, customers end up paying more than they should for their car | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
insurance. They are as high as they are because | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
the insurance companies who deal with each other don't have the right | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
incentives to keep costs down. And costs associated with dealing with | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
accidents are too high. The other concern is that courtesy cars are | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
twice as expensive as they should be. One solution would be to make | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
the hire car a cost which is borne by the victim's insurer or on the | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
repair bill, the Competition Commissions say the insurer of the | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
at-fault driver should handle the claim. It has floated the idea of | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
capping the costs of repairs. Repairers face xrau criticism by not | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
completing the work to the required standard but they say they do what | :11:54. | :12:00. | |
the insurers tell them They do what they are instructed to. In many | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
cases it may be a repair rather than a replacement. There is a cost-out | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
approach here. In some cases I'm sure that the repairers aren't happy | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
with what they are asked to do. So, how could the claims' process | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
change? Well, the victim of an accident will have to trust the | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
other driver's insurer. One of the options they are thinking about is | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
changing the way in which a consumer will deal with a particular insurer. | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
So, rather than dealing with their own insurer, they may deal with the | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
insurer of the person who caused the accident. | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
The Competition Commission believes that the over-charging adds ?8 to | :12:38. | :12:44. | |
the cost of insuring every car. Deal with that, deal with the much bigger | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
problem of excessive whiplash claims and it'll help bring down our | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
insurance bills. The commission will make its final proposals next year. | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
The Foreign Office says it is extremely concerned by reports that | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
a British doctor, imprisoned by the Syrian government for more than a | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
year, has died in custody. Dr Abbas Khan, a 32-year-old orthopaedic | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
surgeon from south London, was arrested shortly after arriving in | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
the city of Aleppo. His family says he went to help civilians in a field | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
hospital in an area controlled by the opposition. Paul Wood sent this | :13:22. | :13:30. | |
report from neighbouring Lebanon. Dr Abbas Khan went to Syria more | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
than a year ago to help the civilian victims of the civil war. He had | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
been in the northern town of Aleppo, just 48 hours, when he was arrested. | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
There was a huge need here for a skilled orthopaedic surgeon, such as | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
Dr Abbas. Last November when he arrived, hundreds of people were | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
being injured in Aleppo every week. But regime sources claim he was | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
betrayed by doctors on the rebel side, angry he was giving away free | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
medicines. Whatever the truth of that, he was seized by government | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
soldiers and taken to a prison in Damascus. In letters home, he said | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
he was accused of treating dying civilians - that, he said, was | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
classed as an act of terrorism. He wrote, "My detention has included | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
repeated beatings, for no other reason than the pleasure of my | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
captors." He had been forced to beat other prisoners, he said, kept in | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
squalid conditions, denied access to toilets or medical treatments. | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
Dr Abbas' death would have been a crushing blow to his family, | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
whatever the circumstances. But, they'd been told by the Syrian | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
authorities he was coming home, being released in just a few days' | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
time. Then an official rang to say he had been found hanged in his | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
cell. His family say they don't believe it. | :14:50. | :14:56. | |
One theory - that Dr Abbas was a casualty of a power struggle between | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
the Syrian president and his own Security Services. Only President | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
Assad could have ordered his release. The Foreign Office is | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
seeking urgent clarification from the Syrians about what happened. | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
Amnesty say 1,000 prison remembers killed in Syrian prisons every year | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
and it is all, too plausable that a British doctor is among them. Our | :15:24. | :15:34. | |
main story. Options for Britain's airport expansion. New runways for | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
Heathrow and Gatwick on the short list. A new airport in the Thames | :15:38. | :15:48. | |
estuary hasn't been ruled out. The beauty of the Christmas Festival of | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
nine lessons and carols, and it's prising birthplace. In sport, Rajesh | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
cyclist Jonathan Tiernan Lock is to face desert disciplinary | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
proceedings. He denies any wrongdoing and will contest the | :16:05. | :16:06. | |
charges. Britain's most famous naturalist Sir | :16:07. | :16:18. | |
David Attenborough hs been a fixture on our television screens for | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
decades. Today he's been awarded the freedom of the city of Bristol - the | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
highest honour the city can bestow. The award marks the close | :16:29. | :16:30. | |
association between Sir David and the BBC's Natural History Unit - | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
which is based in Bristol. He described the award as a 'great | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
honour' - not just for him, but for the whole team. Jon Kay watched the | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
ceremony. From the Amazon rainforest and the Arctic tundra to Bristol's | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
City Hall. In the council chamber this lunchtime, only political | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
animals, though. Here to give Sir David Attenborough their highest | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
honour. He follows Sir Winston Churchill and Lord Nelson as free | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
men of this city, where so many of his wildlife programmes were | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
produced. Today, he was typically modest about it. Of course, it isn't | :17:06. | :17:13. | |
really me, that's the point. It is the BBC natural history unit that is | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
being honoured. I get a lot of credit for all sorts of things the | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
unit does which I have little justification for stop but it's a | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
great honour to represent that unit. I have been lucky in my lifetime to | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
see some of the greatest spectacles of the natural world. For more than | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
60 years, he has travelled the globe, first on zoo quest... There, | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
only a few yards away, we spotted... Then through life on | :17:43. | :17:51. | |
Earth and frozen planet. His sole object in life at the moment is to | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
make sure that he and he alone makes with every single one of them. He | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
has taken us to places and got us closer to nature than we ever | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
imagined possible. And almost all his hit programmes have been made by | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
the BBC natural history unit in Bristol. He has the ability to | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
connect to all ages, from three-year-olds to a -year-olds, in | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
all territories around the world, because he just draws you into the | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
fascination of the natural world. Now 87, this freeman of the city of | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
Bristol says he has no plans to retire. Is there one thing you | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
haven't done yet? I would love to go to the centre, there are terrific | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
fossils, it would be extremely unproductive and bad use of the | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
licence payers money to send me to the centre of the Gobi Desert! From | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
here come he is filming again for a new series next year. | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
Police are investigating a suspected terrorist attack in Belfast last | :18:57. | :18:59. | |
night, when a man was seen running through the city centre with his | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
clothes on fire. It's thought he may have been carrying an incendiary | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
device, which caught fire prematurely. Chris Buckler reports. | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
The middle of Belfast just before Christmas. Filled not with shoppers | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
but security. Stores had to be evacuated and part of the city | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
centre closed, all as a result of the latest attack by dissident | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
republicans. In recent weeks the police had been warning people to be | :19:26. | :19:28. | |
vigilant and last night in one shop, they watched a man bring a firebomb | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
through its doors. This guy came in and unbelievably burnt into flames, | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
just went into flames, we thought there was something going on, he | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
just ran out of the shop and it turns out there was an incendiary | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
device he had been hiding under his coat, which inadvertently had gone | :19:48. | :19:54. | |
off. So-called firebombs word used during the worst years of Ireland's | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
troubles and the police have returned to old tactics to try and | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
combat increased threats. Checkpoints are back, but despite | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
that they are having attacks. On Friday evening, a small bomb | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
exploded in a part of Belfast busy with people, many of them at bars | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
and restaurants for Christmas parties. At the end of last month a | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
substantial car bomb was left outside one of the city's main | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
shopping centres. When you look at that capability of people who have | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
the technical knowledge to know how to explode a car bomb, of course we | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
are concerned about that. But we are also concerned about a new | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
generation of young, active and violent republican terrorists who | :20:37. | :20:38. | |
are determined to keep his campaign going. In recent weeks and months, | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
Republicans opposed to the peace process have fired shots at police | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
and sent letter bombs to police officers but this Christmas they | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
seem intent on simply causing widespread fear and disruption. Cars | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
have now been searched as they going to shopping centres, images that | :20:56. | :20:57. | |
could be from Christmas in a different occasion in Belfast. | :20:58. | :21:04. | |
Large-scale gas production or fracking could boost in Britain's | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
energy security and create thousands of jobs, that's the view of a report | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
commissioned the government which sets out the economic and | :21:13. | :21:14. | |
environmental effects of oil and gas at unity. Consultation on it | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
findings will run into March of next year. One of Britain's largest drug | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
company 's Glaxo Smith client as it will stop paying doctors to attend | :21:27. | :21:33. | |
its medical conferences. It was the first big pharmaceutical companies | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
to take that decision. The decision comes months after the Chinese | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
authorities opened an investigation into alleged bribery by some of its | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
employees. The former Conservative peer Lord Henning field is claimed | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
half the numbers of the House of Lords clock in and out of Parliament | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
for a few minutes a day in order to claim the ?300 daily attendance | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
allowance. He made the claim when challenged to explain his own | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
attendance record. The Daily Mirror alleges that only 11 of 19 occasions | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
he attended the Lords in July, he spent less than 40 minutes there. A | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
former personal assistant accused of defrauding Charles Saatchi and | :22:13. | :22:14. | |
Nigella Lawson has told the court she regularly found white powder and | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
rolled up banknotes in the TV chef's handbag. Francesca Grillo | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
told court she found evidence of cannabis being smoked in the | :22:24. | :22:35. | |
couple's house. Both the sisters today attended court but it was, as | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
you say, the younger sister Francesca Grillo who today continued | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
her evidence. She told the court she had never actually seen Nigella | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
Lawson ever take drugs but she had found remnants of both cannabis and | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
cocaine in the house. She said that the cannabis she had found after | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
parties held there, she found some in Nigella Lawson's study and also | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
in the kitchen. She went on to say she never felt comfortable asking | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
her about drug use but did ask the children about the cannabis and they | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
said they had cemented with their mother to help them all get to | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
sleep. In relation to the cocaine, she told the court that a packet of | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
cocaine had been found in Miss Lawson's jewellery box, and she | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
frequently found rolled up banknotes with remnants of cocaine on it. She | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
went on to say there was one occasion when Miss Lawson came down | :23:29. | :23:30. | |
into the kitchen and she saw some white powder on her nose. She asked | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
Mr Lawson what it was, she did was make up. | :23:35. | :23:45. | |
Australia's cricketers have regained the Ashes after beating England by | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
150 runs in the third Test. They're now 3-0 up, with two Tests still to | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
play. And the real danger is that England might be 'whitewashed' and | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
come home without a single Test victory. The only bright spot was | :23:56. | :23:58. | |
Ben Stokes scoring his maiden Test century, as Joe Wilson reports from | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
Perth. Want to see what it means to win the | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
Ashes after three East great series defeat? Four hours after play | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
finished, Australia's cricketers out in the middle, sharing the jury that | :24:13. | :24:15. | |
can only come with overwhelming England. They were held up briefly | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
on the fifth day in Perth. England's defiance was left to a | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
22-year-old injustice second Test match, the pillar in England's | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
rubble. Then Stokes, the first England batsmen to make 100 in the | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
series. Maybe England have a new all-rounder. He was out for 120, and | :24:35. | :24:43. | |
the rest followed rapidly. 17 runs and three wickets later, England | :24:44. | :24:46. | |
were all out, James Anderson the last to go. Mitchell Johnson taking | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
the wicket, quite appropriately. And England's captain was left to try | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
and explain how it could go so badly wrong so soon. We haven't had enough | :24:56. | :25:03. | |
players in form, that is the simple fact, you can't put any more honest | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
than that. People in the dressing room know that, it hurts like hell | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
when you say it, when you come into a contest and end up second best, as | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
a sportsman and especially to admit that it is quite hard. The first | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
wicket looks like it has been in a Test match. Cracked, torn, maybe | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
that's goes for England's players too, and there is one school of | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
thought that suggests, with their squad, they should rip it up and | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
start again. But there is little point in dropping players if there | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
is no one better to replace them. It's not easy for Andy flower author | :25:39. | :25:41. | |
Alastair Cook, his performance has been poor, it looks like his | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
performance was affected by his batting. There are not a huge amount | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
of answers, I don't see many waiting from outside this group who could | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
make a big difference. England's immediate task is to try and stop | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
this series becoming 5-0. Australia have had to wait a long time to win | :26:01. | :26:09. | |
again and they rather like it. It's a Christmas tradition enjoyed | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
by millions the world over. Most associated with the famous carols | :26:14. | :26:16. | |
from Kings College, Cambridge - the festival of nine lessons and carols | :26:17. | :26:19. | |
is actually a Cornish invention - and tonight at Truro Cathedral, the | :26:20. | :26:22. | |
very first service from 1880 will be recreated, as our reporter Nick | :26:23. | :26:25. | |
Beake reports from England's most westerly Cathedral. | :26:26. | :26:43. | |
The eyes of millions are on the soloist who has the nerve wracking | :26:44. | :26:46. | |
honour of starting it off. The choir of King's College Cambridge have | :26:47. | :26:53. | |
made this festive spectacle their own but it was Cornwall in 1880 that | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
started this most British Christmas tradition, and today's choir at | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
Truro Cathedral are bringing the first service pack to life. Back to | :27:02. | :27:15. | |
life. This is one of the orders of service from 1880 devised by Bishop | :27:16. | :27:22. | |
Benson. And it is a curious mix. Some pieces are more like musicals | :27:23. | :27:33. | |
of the time. I know from reading articles from the press at the | :27:34. | :27:36. | |
time, choral singing was not distinguished in Cornwall at the | :27:37. | :27:43. | |
time in churches, so we would soon -- weren't seen as too authentic. | :27:44. | :27:51. | |
Let's see what happens! They may not have recognised this vocal one in | :27:52. | :28:00. | |
1880, but probably this one. The Truro choristers practice 12 hours a | :28:01. | :28:03. | |
week. And learning these old pieces has been a rewarding and | :28:04. | :28:10. | |
challenging. We have two pronounced the edge instead of just saying | :28:11. | :28:13. | |
rejoiced, and there are odd gaps between the words sometimes. I'm | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
glad we are doing Handel 's Messiah because I have got a solar but also | :28:19. | :28:23. | |
because the music is very good. The first service was about getting the | :28:24. | :28:28. | |
people out of the pubs of Truro and into here. But now their research | :28:29. | :28:35. | |
suggests this service was a bit like a Christmas present to some very | :28:36. | :28:37. | |
disgruntled local table who have had their houses knocked down to make | :28:38. | :28:43. | |
way for the new Cathedral -- local people. They will be hoping there | :28:44. | :28:47. | |
was no rebellion in the air tonight walloped in 1000 pack the pews to | :28:48. | :28:52. | |
celebrate this often forgotten Cornish tradition. Time to take you | :28:53. | :28:58. | |
to the weather now. A lovely day today, a little bit | :28:59. | :29:08. | |
cooler than of late, but nevertheless, sunny spells out there | :29:09. | :29:13. | |
and mostly dry. We have some cloud upping and tailing the country as we | :29:14. | :29:17. | |
speak, but the crowd up into the far North-West, a few showers which will | :29:18. | :29:24. | |
die back. The cloud in the South-East, a bit of a nuisance, | :29:25. | :29:28. | |
maybe some more rain through the latter stages of the day. Some sunny | :29:29. | :29:32. | |
spells coming through, pleasant enough for many. Through this | :29:33. | :29:39. | |
evening, we start to see the potential for a little more rain | :29:40. | :29:43. | |
across the South-East and into East Anglia for a time. An early frost, | :29:44. | :29:46. | |
but only just because some wet and windy weather. To push in from the | :29:47. | :29:51. | |
west. And that because the southerly wind will lift temperatures in the | :29:52. | :29:54. | |
South-East towards the end of the night. The talking point will be the | :29:55. | :30:04. | |
strength of the wind and the rain is the day continues through Wednesday. | :30:05. | :30:10. | |
Showery outbreaks of rain to start with across Scotland, rather breezy | :30:11. | :30:14. | |
and temperatures around seven to nine degrees. Rain across the | :30:15. | :30:21. | |
North-West and down into Wales, the Midlands, eastern England starting | :30:22. | :30:24. | |
off overcast but largely fine and dry. A mild but windy start in the | :30:25. | :30:31. | |
south-west and some showery out books of rain steadily pushing their | :30:32. | :30:36. | |
way east. The main course arrives through the latter stages of | :30:37. | :30:39. | |
Wednesday, there will be some rain pushing erratically eastwards | :30:40. | :30:42. | |
through the day and the wind starting to be a feature. The | :30:43. | :30:49. | |
heavy, intense rainfall arrives through Wednesday afternoon and into | :30:50. | :30:56. | |
Wednesday evening. As the rain continues to travel further east and | :30:57. | :30:58. | |
the low-pressure drifts further north, the ice bars squeezing to the | :30:59. | :31:04. | |
south of that, the potential for 80, even more gusts of wind. That may | :31:05. | :31:12. | |
well cause some disruption. It's all moved out of the way by Thursday, a | :31:13. | :31:16. | |
cooler, breezy day with a few showers. No chance to rest on our | :31:17. | :31:24. | |
laurels as we move towards Friday, the potential for yet more wet and | :31:25. | :31:28. | |
windy weather to return towards the end of the working week. | :31:29. | :31:34. | |
Our main story: Options for Britain's airports expansion. New | :31:35. | :31:41. | |
options for Heathrow and Gatwick are on offer and a ten gesture earbud | :31:42. | :31:45. | |
hasn't been ruled out. Time to | :31:46. | :31:47. |