14/01/2014 BBC News at One

On trial, the former Radio 1 DJ Dave Lee Travis faces allegations of

indecent and sexual assault. The court hears that one alleged victims

and to a national newspaper because she claimed the BBC ignored her

allegations. We will have the latest from the court. Also this

lunchtime: Another fall in inflation.

For the first time in four years, it hits the Bank of England's target.

The numbers are undoubtedly good news. After four years of inflation

above the 2% target, we are back on target and it symbolises the end of

the squeeze on household finances. ?LINEBREAK The Coronation Street

star Bill Roache has arrived in court for the start of his trial. He

denies charges of rape and sexual assault.

The jury at the hacking trial sees CCTV footage that shows attempt to

hide alleged evidence at an underground car park.

And what a scorcher. Andy Murray makes it through to the second round

of the Australian Open, despite temperatures of more than 42

degrees. Later on BBC London:

Low morale at Britain's biggest NHS trust. Staff at the Barts complain

of being bullied. And the big clear-up begins for

residents along the Thames after weeks of floods.

Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.

The former radio one DJ Dave Lee Travis has gone on trial accused of

a series of sex offences against ten women and a 15-year-old girl. The

presenter is charged with 13 counts of indecent assault and one of

sexual assault between 1976 and 2008. He has pleaded not guilty to

all the charges. June Kelly is at Southwark Crown Court.

Well, soapy, and above these alleged incidents are said to have taken

place on BBC premises. The court heard this morning that one of his

alleged victims said she was at a recording of top of the Pops in the

late 1970s and Dave Lee Travis was introducing a record. She was

standing close to him and as he introduced the record, he assaulted

her. The jury was shown footage from that Top Of The Pops Central --

show, and you can see the expression on the young woman's face change,

that is when he assaulted. It is also claimed that an 18-year-old

woman working at the BBC was assaulted by the DJ in his Radio 1

studio, while he was on air and a record was playing. She says he then

prevented her from leaving the studio, put his hand over the door.

She did eventually managed to get out. There was a third incident,

also at the BBC, where a Continuity Announcer, a female, say she was

assaulted by him as she was making a continuity announcement. She said

she did not tell her bosses because she was a trainee, he was a powerful

DJ and she did not want to lose her job. The youngest alleged victim in

this case was 15 years of age when the incident was said to have taken

place and she says Dave Lee Travis assaulted her in his trailer at a

pop concert. She said that after the assault, she was so frightened, she

was terrified and she thought he was going to rape her.

He was one of the biggest names on Radio 1. Dave Lee Travis was also a

regular on BBC TV. Today, he faced the cameras as a defendant in a

criminal trial. From the dock, he listened as the prosecution

barrister Miranda Moore QC outlined the case against him. The former DJ,

who was referred to in court by his real name of David Griffin, is

pleading not guilty to all of the charges. He is facing 13 counts of

indecent assault and one of sexual assault. The allegations run from

1976 up to 2008. Welcome to another exciting addition of Top Of The

Pops. Four years, DLT, as he was known, was a presenter on one of the

BBC's most popular shows. It is the accusations during his career both

inside and outside of the corporation that is coming under

scrutiny. The trial is due to last six weeks.

Well, what the jury was also told this morning was that Dave Lee

Travis was first interviewed and arrested after the Jimmy Savile

scandal blew up, this is all part of Scotland Yard's Operation Yewtree.

One of his alleged victims said she went to the BBC after the Sabol

scandal blew up and told him what -- the Jimmy Savile scandal blew up and

told them what he had done to her and she got no reaction, which is

why she went to the Daily Mail and told her story. He has been

described in court this morning as an opportunist who preyed on women a

lot younger than him. He said in police interviews that none of these

things happened, he said that all of these women had been motivated by

greed, the desire to compensation and the need for media attention.

June, thank you very much. For the first time in four years,

inflation has fallen to 2%, hitting the Bank of England's target. The

rate of inflation has been falling since the middle year. This latest

drop makes it more likely that the Bank of England will be able to keep

interest rates low. Here's our chief economics correspondent, Hugh Pym.

The inflation wheel has turned and, in a direction which will be

welcomed by households as well as policymakers. Cost of living

increases are running at their lowest in four years and the Bank of

England can at last say inflation is back on target. Today's inflation

numbers are undoubtedly good news. After four years of inflation above

the 2% target, we are now back on target and it symbolises the end of

the squeeze on household finances. Back in December 2011, inflation was

above 4%. Since then, it has fallen, with a few upward blips, to

a standard 2% last month, less than half the raid two years earlier.

Inflation has been running well ahead of average wage rises for some

time now, but this year, some policymakers and economists think

the trend could be reversed, with economic recovery pushing pay growth

above the cost of living increases. So potentially there is better news

ahead for consumers, whose spending power has been squeezed while

inflation has been above wage rises. But as things stand, citizens advice

say some on low pay want help, because they are struggling with the

cost of living. Clients are mentioning things like transport

costs, so it is great if they get a job but they can then struggle with

the cost of actually getting to work on a day-to-day basis. Education

costs, such as school uniforms on school trips for their children, and

even food costs are going up. We also learned today that annual house

price inflation was running at 514%. This estate agent in

Manchester ex-miner prices in flats like this in a city had covered --

recovered ground after the downturn. Speaking at this property came on

the market in 2007, just as the property market fell. It has taken

seven years for it to come back up to that value but today, we are

realising the value prior to the market falling.

Economic growth, low inflation, falling unemployment. It looks a

fair combination for 2014, as long as there are no unexpected shocks,

higher oil prices, for example, which might throw a spanner in the

works. And Hugh is with me now. So finally,

it is going the right way not just the Bank of England but also for its

new governor. Yes, indeed, all of the people will

be thinking Mark Carney is a lucky governor. He hears with inflation

back to 2%, he has only been in the jobs for a few months and for many

of the four years, his predecessor Mervyn King was having to battle of

criticism that the bank had lost its grip, inflation running high above

target, add 5% at one point. What does it mean for interest rates?

Mark Carney and his colleagues at the bank had made it clear they will

not consider an interest rate rise until unemployment falls down to

numeric 7%. When they introduced that clause last year, it looked

like it would be three years before it hit, interest rates staying low

for some time. Then growth has become faster than most expected and

unemployment started falling rapidly, so it looks like we will

hit that 7% sometime this year, that is very possible. Mark Carney has

since had to make it clear that he would not say a rate rise would come

in without looking at other things but he does have leeway now to look

at other things, and implement is falling, but he can consider other

things and not rush. Norman Smith is in Westminster.

Politically, what does it all to do these arguments about the cost of

living? There is a rough rule of thumb at

Westminster which bluntly is economic recovery equal is political

recovery and there is no doubt that ministers feel that the wind is now

firmly billowing in their sales on the economic front. Not just with

today's inflation figures, the better than expected growth

forecast, that big fall in unemployment last month. The one

chink in our argument, as you say, is the cost of living and the fact

that prices are still at raising prices. But you sense they are on a

cusp of a rethink on Labour's cost of living. Today, Ed Miliband had an

article in the daily Telegraph -- Daily Telegraph, which basically

amounted to Ed Miliband, why I love the middle classes, looking to

readdress the middle-class way of life, issues like housing, sending

your children to university, and the reason for that, I think, is because

it becomes increasingly hard to make the cost of living argument against

a recovering economy, so we can expect to see Ed Miliband, at the

end of this week, in a big speech on the economy, just reframing,

revamping, Labour's argument on the cost of living.

Norman, thank you very much. The Coronation Street actor William

Roache has gone on trial, accused of sexual offences - including two

counts of rape - against five girls in the 1960s. Mr Roache, who plays

Ken Barlow in the television soap, has pleaded not guilty to all

charges. Our correspondent Judith Moritz is at Preston Crown Court.

Yes, that's right. Bill Roache is charged with five counts of indecent

assault and two counts of rape, dating back to the period of 1965

and 1971, and he arrived here at Preston Crown Court this morning to

a barrage of cameras. He is very well known, of course, as the

character Ken Barlow in Coronation Street. That is a situation which

the trial judge, Mister Tim Holroyd QC, is acutely aware of. He is in

the process at the moment of selecting the jury who will sit on

this case and he has been addressing the panel from which that a jury

will be selected. He said to them, " You may, in one sense, feel you

already know Bill Roache. He has played a part of Ken Barlow in

Coronation Street. But this is, of course, not a fictional character on

trial, it is a real person." And he has asked the potential jurors if

they can distinguish between the actor and the character he plays

and, if they are unable to do so, they should not serve. He has also

asked potential jurors to make sure they have no connections with some

cast members from Coronation Street who will be coming here to give

evidence, including Anna Kirkbride who has played the wife of Ken

Barlow, Deirdre Barlow, for many years.

President Hollande of France will face the world's media this

afternoon for the first time since allegations surfaced of an affair

with an actress. Mr Hollande's partner, Valerie Trierweiler, has

been in hospital since the claims were published in a celebrity

magazine last Friday. Our Paris correspondent Christian Fraser has

the latest. Sophie, we have been told this week

that the French don't care about the Private lives of their politicians.

Well, judging by this morning's newspapers, I am not sure I believe

it. The front page never delete pages are now full of the crisis

that envelops this deeply unpopular president and these revelations of

his private life could hardly have come at a worse time.

The annual meeting with the press is a big fixture on the presidential

diary. It was viewed this year as a moment for Mr Holllande to reset his

ailing presidency. In his sights today, those white hot issues.

Taxes, public spending, cuts to welfare. All dangerous territory for

a French president. But this afternoon, reform will be

overshadowed by the deeper questions of the President 's infidelity. And

his affair with the actress Julie Gayet. His official partner and

First Lady, Valerie Trierweiler, still remains in hospital. We are

told she is in need of rest. But former colleagues say her world is

imploding. She probably, probably put too much distance between her

and her former colleagues, female friends from the journalistic world,

so I would say today that she is a very solitary woman. She is all on

her own. It is said the president was incensed at the unwelcome

intrusion into his private life, but it is expected he will respond to

posed question about the First Lady 's position, hoping he can quickly

draw a line. The trouble is, the focus is turning to the dangerous

risk the president took, travelling to his lover on a moped without the

usual security, tailed by the paparazzi, and with every suspicion

that someone in the Elysee Palace was keeping the First Lady in the

dark. Well, the politicians left and right

have given good support to Mr Holllande in the past week, but

there is one man, judging by the photographs in today's paper, who is

enjoying his discomfort. He is the former incumbent of the Elysee

Palace, Nicolas Sarkozy, and according to this paper, he is

already thinking about his return. The plot thickens.

And you can watch live coverage of President Hollande's news conference

this afternoon here on BBC News, from 3:30pm.

NHS hospitals in England are still having problems recruiting full-time

dock force for Accident Emergency departments. Figures obtained by

Labour shows that spending on temporary staff in casualty units

has risen by 60% to more than ?80 million a year. Government says it

is creating extra training places to tackle the shortage. Here is Jane

Draper. It is another busy winter for A Casualty departments are

under pressure. And today's figures showing increasing amount of money

are being spent on temporary doctors to fill gaps in A More than 100

NHS Trusts responded to Labour's free dom of information request. The

total spent by those Prosts was almost ?52 million in 2009. It rose

to almost ?80 million last year. Temporary doctors are more

expensive. They earn as much as ?1,500 a shift. Emergency medicine

is very exciting, it is a rewarding career, but it is also a very

stressful career as well. A number of the challenges that we have seen

in emergency departments over the last few years add it that stress.

So it is a very intense speciality. The shortage of A doctors is a

long-standing problem, which has built up over ten years. Ministers

have announced extra training places but it takes six years to become an

A consultant, so hospitals are relying on temporary staff in the

meantime. Loenchts locums cost more. But I'm not sure we get the best

care when we have A departments staffed by temporary doctors. They

don't have the same commitment to those hospitals, they are not there

day-in and day-out, like full-time doctors. We end up paying more for a

worse service. In the Commons this morning, the Government criticised

Labour's record When he was a Minster in the department he failed

the make the long-term workforce decisions and signed up to the

European quoshg time directive which exacerbated the problems on medical

rotas. They were decisions he made. He created this crisis. We are

fixing it and increasing the number of doctors working in E. All

this comes as casualty units are about to enter their busiest part of

winter. Dramatic footage has emerged of the

moment an elephant in South Africa overturned a car, driven by a

British teacher from Lincolnshire and a man thought to be her partner,

who were on a self-drive safari. This is the moment that Sarah Brooks

and the man, can be seen driving up closely behind the elephant in the

Kruger National Park on December 30th. The elephant, being filmed by

another group of tourists in a car behind, stopped for a moment and

then turnings on them. It rolled the car over, several times, flattening

it. Sarah brction was gored in the leg

by one of the animal's tusks. The couple were taken to hospital but

later discharged. The park's manager said the animal had to be killed

because they couldn't understand its behaviour.

The time is coming up to 1.20pm. O Our top story: What it actually is,

is beyond description. Trenches, ammunition, tools, caps. 100 years

after they were written on the front line, the diairies of soldiers in

On BBC London: A soup kitchen in north London opens its doors to

homeless Romanians, struggling in the capital. And Mo Farah faces

stiff competition at his Marathon debut in London. We'll have details

of who he's up against. Clr They were diaries written by

soldiers in the trenches during the First World War. And now almost 100

years later, their words are being published for the first time online.

The National Archives is making almost 2,000 military unit diaries

available on the internet, as well as some private writings. Robert

Hall reports. Sitting outside our headquarter's

trench in the sun. All should be nice and peaceful and pretty. It is

beyond description. Trenches, ammunition, tools, caps, etc, etc.

Everywhere. Poor fellows shot dead are lying in all directions. 2,000

war diaries, 1. 5 million documents. These were the fodder for authors

and ververs. Now for the first time, the day-by-day accounts of life at

the front are available at the click of a mouse.

The 4th Battalion Middlesex regiment. The order to retire was at

last given in such a way as it cause alarm. These are the methodical

mewing of a guyant army. Details of attacks, of supplies, of football

matches behind the lines of casualties, laid out on official

military forms and stored away for 100 years. The CO sent a message to

the trench companies to retire as best they could in the face of hot

fire. But as we'd already discovered the Germans could not shoot and

their losses was about 12 between them. The release of the war diaries

is immensely important. They are the raw material of understanding the

First World War. They are not the stuff of a become someone has

written for you. It is what was written at the time. It is the

experience, day-by-day, written up by the unit's man in charge, which

shows the casualties, and where they were. It is a valuable resource. The

names carved on to local war memorials are the reminders of the

First World War but all of us will have a direct connection with

somebody who served in this conflict. The hope is that these

diaries, are he leased into the public domain, will give more and

more people the opportunity to follow a personal frail.

By doing that detective work, we can help historians map the war for

future generations. These are the web pages of Operation War Diary, a

way of feeding back our information and filling the gaps. We will never

have that detail, that information. So we really do need people to help

us. By doing this, they are making, as well as having a rich and

engaging experience and contact with these documents, they are

contributing to history. They are contributing to the legacy of the

centenary. That data is a legacy from the centenary, something which

historians will be able to use for decades and generations to come. In

the old photographs, countedless unnamed soldiers gaze at the Camara

lens their fate already sealed. The official comments attached to the

official reports was often the last words they wrote. Everiry where the

same, hard, grim, sign of battle and war. Ghastly, absolutely ghastly and

whoever was in the wrong in this matter which brought this war to be

is deserving of more than he could ever get in this world.

The jury in the phone hacking trial has been shown CCTV footage of what

the prosecution claims shows Rebekah Brookes' husband and security team

trying to hide evidence from the police on the day she was arrested.

Both Rebekah and Charlie Brookes deny conspiracy to pervert the

course of justice. Tom Symonds was in court.

In this complex trial, Rebekah and Charlie Brookes are charged with

overseeing a sophisticated cover-up, with hiding potential evidence from

the police. The jury was told it began when they left Oxfordshire,

where they have a country home, on the 17th July, 2011. Rebekah Brookes

was to be interviewed by police in London. At 12.15, her husband

appears on a CCTV Camara in the car park near their flat in Chelsea. One

minute he has a padded bag and laptop. The next, he doesn't. The

prosecution says they were hidden behind some bins, out of shot to the

right of the Camara, so the police wouldn't find them. Two hours later,

defendant, mark Hannah arrives,'s News International security chief.

He then appears to take the bag, a laptop and a brown brief case away.

Not long afterwards, the police arrive in two cars, to search the

flat. The officers are investigating alleged phone hacking and illegal

payments to public officials. They leave with computers, and documents.

That evening, another security man for News International, arrives back

in the car park. The prosecution says this bin liner contains the

laptop, the bag and the brief case. Mr Brookes wanted them returned, so

they are placed back behind the bins.

The jury was told a pizza delivery was used as cover for returning the

items. Another man whose role hasn't been explained, picks up the pizzas.

The court heard the man left a joking text messes a which included

"Pizza delivered." Re-Beck a ka Brookes returns after midnight. The

next day this car park cleaners arrives. He removes the bins and the

court heard, will he also found the black bin liner. The jury has been

told the News International security men were left trying to work out

what had happened to the items but car park managers have handed them

into the police, sparking the investigation that led to these

charges. The prosecution says this sequence

of events can only be explained as an attempt, literally to hide

evidence from the police. But, Rebekah Brookes Charlie Brookes and

security manster, Mark Hanna, also deny conspiracying to pervert the

course of justice. The cost of policing the badger cull

in Gloucestershire was around ?1.7 million. In total, 921 badgers were

killed in Gloucestershire, making the cost of policing it more than

?1,800 for each badger culled, according to the county's Police and

Crime Commissioner who released the figures. A doctor in northern chien

wra has been given a suspended death sentence for stealing new born

babies and telling them to child traffickers. The obstetrician told

parents their infants had serious diseases and convinced them to give

up the babies. Our world a fars World Affairs Correspondent, Nick

chides report, contains flash trophy.

Led into court in disgrace to hear her fate. In a country where there

are strict population controls and thousands of children are abducted

each year. The hospital where Dr Zhang work. She is said to have told

parents their babies were desperately ill but could be cared

for by the state if they were handed over. One mother was suspicion and

went to the police. The court convicted her of selling seven

babies to traffickers. It was said hers were grave crimes, hence the

suspended death sentence. It is reported that six of the babies in

this case were rescued or returned to their real parents, but this

scene of joy wasn't shared by one family. Tragically the child was

reportedly abandoned in a ditch by one of the traffickers and died.

Police outside the court prepared to lead Dr Zhang away. She may appeal

her sentence. It is also practice in China for a suspended death sentence

to be commuted to life in prison after two years but with child

trafficking stirring such emotions, some say the court has been too

lenient. In tennis, Britain's Andy Murray

started his Australian Open campaign with a quick win over Japan's Go

Soeda in searing heat on a day that saw the temperature peak at 42. 2

Celsius, he spent just 87 minutes securing a place in the second

round. With temperatures above 40 degrees

Celsius, Melbourne was melting. It is boiling. I'm sweating real bad.

Disgusting, it is hot. It is a bit warm. We shouldn't complain. We

didn't come here for it to be cold. It is good. Ridiculous. So hot. I'm

dripping. Unbearably hot. It was hard enough to stay cool while

watching. Imagine playing. One player had fainted and another had

vomited before Andy Murray entered the furnace. Even the shade was

scorching. So it was best to keep rallies to a minimum, one shot if

possible. While Murray's service games were

short, much of what his opponent, Go Soeda hit sailed long, forced into

mistakes by the relentless miles per houry. First set, 6-1. Murray

adapted to the temperatures, apparently fully recovered from his

back injury. Murray broke twice and by the third

set was conner serving energy, channelling his brilliance into a

few telling strokes. That was enough. Soeda faded towardsed the

end of the third. Murray through in three mercifully brief sets but

should they have been allowed to play? If something bad happened to

one of the players, they would change the rules and obviously the

same today, there were guys fainting and people in the stands fainting.

It is really, really tough challenging conditions. I don't

know, even what the heat rule is. None of the players really do.

Organisers say a relatively low humidity made playing safe. Murray

meanwhile signs on with a win, having made the uncomfortable,

comfortable: The weather now with Alex.

Let's take it it down by about 40 degrees. There were some freezing

temperatures this morning. This picture shows rivers are still

swollen. Some rain in the forecast but not downpours we have seen in

recent weeks. For most places it is lovely this afternoon, with hazy

sunshine to enjoy. For most places, always one or two exceptions. There

is cloud spilling in from the west. That's already bringing rain into

County Fermanagh, Tyrone and Londonderry. That rain will continue

to trickle across eastern parts of Northern Ireland over the next few

hours. Rain into Pembrokeshire, and Devon and Cornwall, too. For most,

dry and bright this afternoon. One or two scattered showers still

across the east of Scotland, they are fading away. There is still fog

patches through the central belt of Scotland, where the fog sticks,

temperatures struggling to get above freezing. Always feels cold in

Northern Ireland, so the rain arrives through the rest of today.

But for the bulk of England and Wales, staying dry in the sunshine

across the Midlands and East Anglia and the south-east, temperatures 6

or 7. Sunshine is disappearing over Wales and south-west England with

rain arriving, the rain will spread to most areas overnight. The breeze

will pick up, too, as the weather arrives, some snow over hills of

northern England and hills of Scotland. Not as much as we were

thinking yesterday but a bit of snow over the Grampians. It'll be mostly

rain we'll see as temperatures will be climbing, we are frost-free by

dawn. The weather front bringing the rain is also bringing milder air,

moving around an area of low pressure, sucking up the warm air

from France, Spain and Portugal. The cold air across Scandinavia where

temperatures are well below freezing. We will be well above in

the morning but it will be a different morning. Not the sparkling

sunshine. A dull start. Outbreaks of rain across the east will clear away

and bands of showery rain will work into western areas. Northern Ireland

looking brighter tomorrow afternoon. Where we see brightness in the east

tomorrow afternoon, temperatures could be aes high as 13. For most

places nine or ten, so milder than today, certainly but it will be a

rather drab affair. More cloud and showers to come really for the rest

of the week. This area of low pressure is still in control of our

weather. Not the same beast as the lows we have seen over recent weeks,

it'll provide a lot of cloud and bands of showers across the country

and it'll continue to feed in southerly winds. Still on the mild

side on Thursday, with showers and some drier spells and that's how we

go into Friday and the weekend with a stiff breeze and a few showers but

some dry spells, too. Thank you very much.

A reminder of o you are main story this lunch time: Former Radio 1 DJ,

Dave Lee Travis has gone on trial, facing allegations of indecent and

sexual assault. That's all from