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speak out for the first time in court. One tells a jury that the | :00:09. | :00:15. | |
Coronation Street star William Roache pushed her into a men's | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
toilet at Granada Studios when she was 14. | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
At a separate trial, a court hears that the former Radio DJ Dave Lee | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
Travis sexually assaulted a trainee newsreader in a radio studio. We'll | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
get the latest from our correspondents in court. | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
Also this lunchtime. The Prime Minister says he will veto | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
any proposal by the Royal Bank of Scotland to increase the overall | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
level of pay and bonuses. The Alps murders - police say | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
they're taking no further action against the brother of a man shot | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
dead with family members in France. And lightning strikes spark | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
wildfires in Australia, already scorched by more than 40 degree | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
heat. Later on BBC London. | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
Throwing out big bins - why Lambeth is the latest council to introduce | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
smaller wheelie bins. And find out when you can swim in | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
the Olympic Aquatics Centre - and how much it will cost. | :01:03. | :01:22. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
A woman who claims she was sexually assaulted when she was 14 by the | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
Coronation Street actor William Roache has begun giving evidence at | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
his trial. The woman, who's now 63, says she went to Granada Studios for | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
an audition for a talent show and bumped into the actor in a corridor | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
afterwards. He denies charges of indecent assault and rate between | :01:41. | :01:48. | |
1965 and 1971. Our correspondent, Judith Morritz, is at Preston Crown | :01:49. | :01:56. | |
Court. Inside the dock of courtroom number one, William Roache sat and | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
listened intently as the court heard from his first alleged victim. The | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
woman, who is now in her 60s, described being indecently assaulted | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
by the actor Billy 50 years ago. -- nearly 50 years ago. William Roache | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
arrived at court for the second day of his trial, accompanied again by | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
three of his children. Yesterday, the prosecution made the case that | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
the actor had taken advantage of his stardom to abuse teenage girls. | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
William Roache has played Ken Barlow in Coronation Street form or than 50 | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
years, having appeared in the soap since its first episode in 1960. | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
Today, the court heard evidence from the first alleged victim, who said | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
she went to the Granada Studios in Manchester am aware the programme | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
was filmed, in 1965, when she was 14. The jury heard she had gone to | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
the studios to take part in a children's talent show and that | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
William Roache had pulled her from his dressing room into the men's | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
toilets. Now 63, she described being indecently assaulted. | :02:59. | :03:09. | |
In the dock, the 81-year-old actor listened as the jury was told that | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
soon after the assault, he had sent a letter to the girl which included | :03:16. | :03:16. | |
the lines: The actor is charged with seven | :03:17. | :03:27. | |
sexual offences against five girls, and denies them all. The case | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
continues. The woman has also been | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
cross-examined by the defence this morning. She has explained that some | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
of the details of what happened 50 years ago are difficult to recall. | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
But that she does remember that experience with William Roache at | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
the Granada Studios. We are also expecting later on in the trial to | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
hear evidence from the other women who have made allegations about the | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
actor, who denies all the charges against him. | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
At a separate trial, a woman has been telling a jury that she was | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
indecently assaulted by the former BBC DJ Dave Lee Travis in a BBC | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
studio in the 1980s - when she was a trainee newsreader. He denies 13 | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
counts of indecent assault and one of sexual assault. Our | :04:14. | :04:15. | |
correspondent, June Kelly, is at Southwark Crown Court. | :04:16. | :04:24. | |
The allegations against Dave Lee Travis span from 1976 to 2008. | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
Yesterday, the prosecution here began outlining their case against | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
him. Today they began calling witnesses. | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
Dave Lee Travis has been described as an opportunist who targeted the | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
honourable young women. He denies all 14 charges against him -- | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
vulnerable young women. He told police that his 11 accusers were | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
after money or media attention. Today, the court heard from the | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
first of them. Like all of his alleged victims, she cannot be | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
identified. In the early 80s, she was based at the headquarters of BBC | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
Radio, Broadcasting House. She was a trainee in her mid-20s. She | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
described how Radio 1 was close to the radio for studio where she was | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
working, when Dave Lee Travis walked in. Today, he listened as the woman | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
testified against him from behind a screen. She described how he | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
indecently assaulted her while she was introducing a programme. She | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
said, I was aware that Dave Lee Travis was right up behind me. | :05:26. | :05:42. | |
She said she couldn't report him because he was one of the big stars | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
of Radio 1. She believed the management response would have been, | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
you are a big girl, deal with it, and there would have been a black | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
mark against her. The jury has been told that some of the other | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
complaint against the former DJ also relate to his BBC career. Others are | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
said to have happened after he left the corporation. This first witness | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
was cross-examined by the barrister representing Dave Lee Travis, and he | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
said his client's contention was that this incident simply did not | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
happen. And if it had happened, somebody else would have seen it. | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
This witness replied, Dave Lee Travis in to regard it as a prank | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
rather than a sexual assault. As seemed to regard it. This first | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
witness has completed her evidence just before the lunch break, the | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
second of the alleged victims went into the witness box who worked with | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
the former DJ at children's radio, and she is due to continue her | :06:43. | :06:44. | |
evidence this afternoon. David Cameron has said he will veto | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
any proposal by the mainly state-owned Royal Bank of Scotland | :06:49. | :06:50. | |
to increase the overall level of pay and bonuses. But speaking at Prime | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
Minister's Questions, he refused to agree to a call by the Labour | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
leader, Ed Miliband, for a limit on share-based pay-outs that could be | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
worth more than 100% of an employee's salary. Our political | :07:01. | :07:10. | |
correspondent, Chris Mason, reports. Just as it is a fair bet that | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
January will bring foul weather, you can also bet there will be a bust up | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
about bankers bonuses. Plenty working in banking and modest wages | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
but for those at the top, it is bonus season, and some are set to be | :07:23. | :07:30. | |
whopping. It poses a tricky question, what should it say about | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
bonuses at the Royal Bank of Scotland which is predominantly | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
owned by taxpayers. RBS are talking to parts of the government about the | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
proposal to pay over 100% bonuses. He is the Prime Minister, the | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
taxpayer will foot the bill. Will he put a stop to it right now by | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
telling RBS to drop this idea? I will tell him exactly what we are | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
saying to RBS. If there are any proposals to increase the overall | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
pay, that is pay and bonus bill at RBS, at the investment bank, any | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
proposals for that, we will veto it. What a pity the past government | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
never took an approach like that. There is, as ever, a complicate in | :08:14. | :08:20. | |
quest. A cap being imposed by the European union to the bonuses that | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
can be paid by the top earners in banks. It doesn't affect bonuses | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
this year but will next. The government is irritated by the whole | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
idea and it is challenging it in court. The Treasury says it is not | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
only pointless but counter-productive. After a speech | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
about the EU this morning, the Chancellor made his view very clear. | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
These European rules will not lead to bankers being paid less. It will | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
lead to a Fred Goodwin style situation, where you will not be | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
able to get the money back off the bankers when things go wrong. We | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
aren't bonuses and battles with the EU, there is another challenge with | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
the banks, making them work better for us as customers. The BBC has | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
learned that Labour wants to shrink the size of the dominant high street | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
names by making so-called -- helping so-called Challenger banks to emerge | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
by taking them on. The idea is we would get a better deal, better | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
service and access to loans. The Conservatives are saying they are | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
merely trying to solve a problem that was caused when they were in | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
government. Bankers bonuses, always a hot | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
topic, particularly in Parliament. Explain the significance of the | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
arguments going on. Indeed, particularly this time of year. | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
January is the time of year when the big banks decide on what bonuses | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
they are going to hand out, based on the previous year's performance, in | :09:46. | :09:52. | |
this case 2013. David Cameron was referring to RBS, the taxpayer as | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
the majority stake so the government's involvement is keenly | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
watched. Cash bonuses will be capped at ?2000. That was the case in | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
previous years. He says as prime minister and as a government they | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
won't agree to any increase on the amount being paid out in salaries | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
and bonuses foot up in previous years, the bonus pool has been | :10:12. | :10:18. | |
reduced anyway for bankers. He was responding to Ed Miliband talking | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
about an EU cap on bank bonuses. That won't technically start until | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
the next January pay round, in a year's time. That is saying if you | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
want to pay bank bonuses at twice Alaric, you have to get approval of | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
shareholders. The government has a share in RBS. George Osborne and | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
David Cameron won't have to decide on that relating to next year until | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
RBS's general meeting in May of this year. I think Labour will keep the | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
pressure on, but as always in Prime Minister 's questions, a lot of | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
smoke and thunder but different lines being discussed. | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
The Chancellor, George Osborne, has raised the prospect of Britain | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
leaving the European Union if it fails to improve competitiveness, | :11:04. | :11:05. | |
cut welfare spending and protect the rights of member countries not in | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
the eurozone. In a speech in London this morning, he said that the | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
treaties underpinning the EU were no longer "fit for purpose". And a | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
failure to renegotiate and reform would condemn the continent to | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
further economic crisis and decline. We need two things. First, we need | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
economic reform that enables the EU to create jobs and economic security | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
and compete in the global race, something it is not doing well at | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
the moment. Second, as the eurozone undertakes the integration required | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
to make the Euro work, we need constitutional reforms to make sure | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
that those countries who are not in the euro-macro can remain in the U, | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
confident that their interests and rights will be protected. Let's | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
speak to our political correspondent, Vicki Young. What's | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
the reaction been to his speech? It was interesting, many of those | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
sceptical Tories were sitting in the audience, they would have been | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
heartened by some of the things that George Osborne had to say, by saying | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
that you needed to think big, it needed major reforms -- the EU | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
needed to think big. Making the point that the EU had to be more | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
competitive and to do that, it needed changes. It wasn't just about | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
Britain demanding all these things that it wants, this is good for the | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
EU, too. The wider message is that Britain is not isolated on this. He | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
said the cut in the EU budget showed that Britain could work with | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
like-minded countries, Germany for example, and get results. It doesn't | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
take away the fact that dozens of Conservatives want to go far | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
further, demanding that the UK Parliament has a veto over all | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
existing and future EU law. George Osborne said there is not civil war | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
in the Tory Party, he said they are simply having a sensible, grown-up | :12:58. | :12:59. | |
debate. The brother of a British man shot | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
dead with his family in the French Alps in 2012 has been released from | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
bail after police said there wasn't enough evidence to charge him. Zaid | :13:07. | :13:08. | |
al-Hilli was accused of orchestrating the murders of his | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
brother Saad and his wife who were from Surrey and his mother-in-law. | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
The couple's two young daughters survived. Our correspondent, | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
Christian Fraser, is in Paris. What has the reaction been from the | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
French authorities to this news? On a number of occasions that I have | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
interviewed the chief prosecutor in this case, he has consistently told | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
me that he believes the answers to this crime lie in Britain. His | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
suspect has aways been Zaid al-Hilli, it continues to be and | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
they have said today they will continue to issue him. Although he | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
left his house talking about his release, that the British police had | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
cancelled his bail, I am sure he is being advised not to travel to | :13:51. | :13:52. | |
France because if he did come he would certainly be arrested. The | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
trouble for the French police is that although they have come up with | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
this motive, the idea that there was a dispute between the two brothers | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
over their father 's will, the search for meaningful evidence has | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
always come up short. Last year they raised a Photofit of a motorcyclist | :14:09. | :14:10. | |
who was spotted near the murder scene on the day. And that has | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
brought pretty much a blank response. In mind of that, they are | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
scaling back the investigation. There is no official statement on | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
that but it is happening, no great surprise given the number of police | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
officers that have been involved. Over the past 16 months. There will | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
be some relief for Seidel Hurley. For the al-Hilli family at large, | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
will be disappointment -- relief for Zaid al-Hilli. | :14:40. | :14:46. | |
Our top story this lunchtime: The trial of the Coronation Street | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
actor, William Roache, he is from his first alleged victim, a teenager | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
at the time, she says she was assaulted by the star at the Granada | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
Studios. Still to come, back with a bang, the | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
British tennis player who has overcome cancer and is through to | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
the second round of the Australian open. | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
Later on BBC London, scenes from London Underground, the capital | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
caught on camera more than 20 years ago on the tube. We will be showing | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
you morgan says of a lost London from the last century. | :15:16. | :15:23. | |
Scorching temperatures are set to continue in parts of Australia this | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
week. The south-east of the country has seen temperatures soar into the | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
40s. In Victoria, lightning strikes have sparked more than 250 fires, | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
and now a fire ban has been issued across the state. Our correspondent, | :15:36. | :15:46. | |
Jon Donnison, sent this report. This week, Australia has once again | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
been burning. These were the hills around Perth on Monday. People doing | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
their best to defend their homes, but more than 50 houses were | :15:57. | :16:03. | |
destroyed and one man died. The heatwave has now moved eastwards, | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
bringing more bushfires elsewhere. Dozens of lasers are burning in the | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
states of Victoria and South Australia -- blazes. This historic | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
guesthouse was among the buildings lost. When I got here, the fire and | :16:17. | :16:25. | |
the heat and the smoke, it was clear that no one was going to bring it | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
under control. The city of Melbourne in Victoria has been baking, with | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
temperatures now over 40 degrees for several days. This is a serious | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
public health issue. We know that there are serious consequences from | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
extreme heat, and that can mean increased hospitalisation is and | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
unfortunately, increased deaths. And spare a thought for those engaged in | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
sport. Fans of the Australian Open tennis have been doing their best to | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
keep cool. But there are fears for the health of the players, after the | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
Canadian collapsed on court this week. A ball boy also passed out. | :17:03. | :17:09. | |
Meanwhile, the country's firefighters are facing a difficult | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
few days. The forecast shows no letup in the temperatures until the | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
weekend. 2013 was just declared Australia's hottest year on record, | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
raising questions about the impact of climate change here. If this year | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
continues as it has darted, the record may not last long. | :17:28. | :17:35. | |
The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon is as half the population of Syria, | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
more than 9 million people, urgently need humanitarian aid. He was | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
speaking at a conference of donors in Kuwait, where the United Nations | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
is asking for ?4 billion to deal with the crisis. This report from | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
Lee Buchanan does contain flash photography. | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
Syria's growing desperation has brought these Foreign Minister is to | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
Kuwait. They came to pledge aid a year ago, but now the humanitarian | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
crisis has escalated and much more money is needed. We are bit | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
frustrated, because the needs on the ground are much higher than the | :18:11. | :18:12. | |
response from the international community, and we do hope that | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
during this conference, there will be some response and more money will | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
pour in in order to meet the needs of the Syrian refugees. | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
Vast tent cities have sprung up outside Syria. The US and 28 big | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
donors and the UK has promise to another ?100 million. Justine | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
Greening recently visited this refugee camp in Jordan. Today, she | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
said: and that's because some areas are | :18:40. | :19:02. | |
under siege and delivering aid is impossible, so cease-fires as well | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
as a new died. One UN official described how hard it was foreign | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
aid convoy to reach a refugee near Damascus. Bursts of gunfire, | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
including machine-gun fire, erupted close to the trucks and under | :19:16. | :19:22. | |
vehicles, suggesting that there was a firefight. Also, one mortar | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
exploded very close to the convoy. Western governments have long | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
condemned the Syrian regime, but in a new development, it's now appears | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
that Western intelligence agencies have visited Damascus for talks on | :19:34. | :19:41. | |
combating radical Islamist groups. When these countries ask us for | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
security cooperation, then it seems to me that there is a schism between | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
the political and security leaderships. Many of these countries | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
have contacted us to coordinate security measures. If true, these | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
contacts will undermine trust with Syria's rebels at a crucial time. | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
The main opposition group still has to decide if it will attend peace | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
talks in Geneva next week. Emily Buchanan, BBC News. A man and two | :20:08. | :20:14. | |
boys aged 17 have been convicted of a series of rapes and sexual | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
assaults against three young girls in Peter borough after a trial | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
lasting two months, the jury at the Old Bailey found the three guilty of | :20:22. | :20:28. | |
a total of 14 rapes and three sexual assaults. | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
Three other defendants including a 14-year-old boy workload of any | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
involvement in the attacks. The jury is still considering other verdicts. | :20:36. | :20:37. | |
Birmingham city council is having to decide whether to sell off some of | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
its most famous assets in order to pay off mounting legal bills. Like | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
many local authorities, it's having to make big pay-outs in order to | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
settle bills for equal pay cases, mainly women, who for years were | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
paid less than their counterparts on the same grade. Our correspondent, | :20:51. | :21:02. | |
Phil Mackie, reports. When a court ruled in favour of | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
these council workers who had been paid significantly less than | :21:09. | :21:10. | |
colleagues in the same grade, it allowed tens of thousands of fresh | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
claims for back pay. The latest figures from Birmingham City Council | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
show that it's now owes ?1.1 billion . It has been allowed to borrow | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
about half, but there is estimated shortfall of around 550 million. | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
There are some things that are another going to be sold off, like | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
Birmingham's ran new Central library, but the City Council owes | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
so much money that it is going to have to make some tough decisions | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
soon about what is to be put on the market, including potentially some | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
big-ticket items, like the international convention centre. The | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
ICC is part of the council owned NEC group, which also includes the | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
National exhibition Centre, the LG Arena and the National Indoor Arena. | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
The whole lot could be worth up to ?300 million. Speaking to BBC radio | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
W, coming's leader, Sir Robert Bork, confirmed that selling the NEC | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
group is under consideration. We need to invest in the NEC in order | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
to ensure the future over the next 20 years or so, and it may be that | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
to do that, Birmingham City Council has to diversify. SOUND PROBLEMS. | :22:17. | :22:30. | |
The reason it has taken so long is that council administrations have | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
been fighting every single case and refusing to enter into a reasonable | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
negotiation with ourselves to try and settle this own behalf of our | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
members. And the sell-off has already started. | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
From council offices to these public toilets, which were recently sold | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
for ?35,000. But in increasingly difficult times, one thing | :22:54. | :22:55. | |
Birmingham wants to avoid is a wholesale clear out. Phil Mackie, | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
BBC News, Birmingham. More than 70% of clinical contracts | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
that the NHS has awarded since April last year have gone to private | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
companies. The figure comes from the NHS Support Federation, which is | :23:07. | :23:08. | |
opposing the introduction of a competitive market into the health | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
service. The Department of Health said that when all NHS work is | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
considered, only around 6% is currently carried out by the private | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
sector. Our health correspondent, Dominic Hughes, reports. | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
Are you finding that establishing the feeding is easier? ?? WHITE Just | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
a few days old, baby Georgia Reid has already received the best care | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
the NHS can offer. She was very poorly when she was born at | :23:36. | :23:37. | |
Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridge, so mum Lauren and father | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
James are relieved to see her getting stronger. We have had a bit | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
of a tough time for the last couple of days with her, but we have had | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
lots of experts coming to help us. Everyone has been really | :23:50. | :23:51. | |
accommodating, wanting to do everything they can to get the best | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
outcomes for all of us. But Hinchingbrooke Hospital is unlike | :23:57. | :23:58. | |
any other in England, a unique collaboration between the NHS and a | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
private company. It looks and sounds like any other NHS hospital, only | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
this one is run by a private company called Circle, who took it over when | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
the previous trust was on the verge of going bust. Reforms to the health | :24:09. | :24:18. | |
service in England mean any qualified provider is now able to | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
bid for NHS contracts. Since April last year, more than ?5 billion | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
worth of contracts have been advertised. Of those that have been | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
awarded, more than 70% have been won by private companies. They include | :24:30. | :24:32. | |
diagnostic services like scans and blood tests, mental health and GP | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
services. Campaigners believe the process of having to bid for | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
contracts is undermining the health service. ?? YELLOW The government is | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
wasting tens of millions of pounds on these contracts, money that | :24:46. | :24:48. | |
should be spent on front line patient care. NHS care has already | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
moved from the hospital to the high street, almost becoming a brand that | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
reassures patients. Having a hearing aid fitted in the local optician's | :24:58. | :25:00. | |
is now fairly common, and the private sector sees plenty of other | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
opportunities. I'm sure if there are other services that could be easily | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
provided on the high street, they will benefit. Patients like it. They | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
don't want necessarily to have to go to a hospital environment. Are you | :25:14. | :25:16. | |
using a tube? Hopefully not any more. By the time baby Georgia is | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
ten years old, some fear competition will have led to a privatised NHS. | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
Others believe equally strongly that this is the only way the NHS can | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
hope to survive. Dominic Hughes, BBC News. | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
West Country beef and lamb have joined the ranks of Cornish pasties | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
and Stilton cheese by gaining protected EU status. The European | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
Commission has awarded animals born and reared in parts of the South | :25:43. | :25:45. | |
West "Protected Geographical Indication" status. Anglesey Sea | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
Salt was given similar recognition, which prevents other products from | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
using its name. Just over a year ago, British tennis | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
player Ross Hutchins was diagnosed with cancer. He missed the whole of | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
the 2013 tour while he underwent treatment. But now the doubles | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
player has marked his return to Grand Slam tennis with a first-round | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
win at the Australian Open. Alex South sent this report from | :26:11. | :26:17. | |
Melbourne. After a year away from tennis | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
beating cancer, you would think Ross Hutchins would just be happy with | :26:22. | :26:24. | |
being out on the court again, but that couldn't be further from the | :26:25. | :26:27. | |
truth. He appreciates the sympathy he's received, but now he just wants | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
to win tennis matches. Before the disruption and the chemotherapy and | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
the thousands of letters of support, Hutchins and his double partner | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
Colin coming had advanced to the quarterfinals at Wimbledon and US | :26:42. | :26:44. | |
open. The aim is to get back to that level as quickly as possible. And | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
judging by this display, he and Fleming are heading in the right | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
direction but coming from a set down to join Hutchins' best friend Andy | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
Murray into round two. I don't want people to feel sorry for me. I want | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
to be treated as another player who has just as much chance to win or | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
lose and to be ruthless out there with these other guys and to become | :27:07. | :27:09. | |
a better competitor and to win matches in our own right, not to | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
people taking pity on us, which hopefully they don't, and we can | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
beat them on their own merits. My best friend over there, Ross | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
Hutchins, he was diagnosed with cancer. About... It is a far cry | :27:22. | :27:31. | |
from last January, when Hutchins was fighting Hodgkins lymphoma. Murray | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
helped bring the attention of the world on his friend's disease, | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
playing a charity match after winning at Queens. It has been a | :27:39. | :27:41. | |
difficult time for all those close to Hutchins. I have never literally | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
once thought that we wouldn't team up again. I saw was play in December | :27:47. | :27:50. | |
at the Davis cup, and he was playing well then. So there has never been a | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
stage when I thought we would not get back to a good level. This time | :27:55. | :27:58. | |
last year, Ross Hutchins walked into the hospital to start his first | :27:59. | :28:02. | |
round of chemotherapy. Now he is walking into the second round of a | :28:03. | :28:06. | |
grand slam as a tennis player, just how he likes it. | :28:07. | :28:09. | |
Time for a look at the weather. It is super hot there in Melbourne. | :28:10. | :28:17. | |
For anyone watching, the heat may not have picked yet. That may be on | :28:18. | :28:22. | |
Thursday. Not a problem we have here at the moment, but we do still | :28:23. | :28:25. | |
continue with our mild weather. 20 of cloud across the British Isles | :28:26. | :28:28. | |
for this afternoon. Sunshine in short supply. Patchy rain for the | :28:29. | :28:34. | |
next few hours with this swathe of cloud. This line towards the west | :28:35. | :28:38. | |
promises to bring in some punchier showers this evening. Bear in mind | :28:39. | :28:41. | |
that the rain will get worse before it finally clears awake eastwards | :28:42. | :28:46. | |
tonight. Squally winds accompanying those showers on their weight used. | :28:47. | :28:50. | |
Showers tend to gather around the coast. Generally a mild night, with | :28:51. | :28:58. | |
clearer skies across Scotland which mean that could be a frost here | :28:59. | :29:01. | |
first thing tomorrow. There could also be patches of fog. There could | :29:02. | :29:07. | |
be a risk of some ice on untreated surfaces first thing. Still some | :29:08. | :29:13. | |
showers clinging on across Aberdeenshire. Early showers the | :29:14. | :29:22. | |
Dumfries and Galloway. Some are likely to get carried further | :29:23. | :29:27. | |
eastwards, but as a rough rule of thumb for the day as a whole, the | :29:28. | :29:31. | |
further west you are, the more likely you are to encounter the | :29:32. | :29:33. | |
showers. Some of them will be quite punchy as well. We could get quite a | :29:34. | :29:38. | |
bit of rain from some of them over a short space of time. And we are | :29:39. | :29:42. | |
still vulnerable to localised flooding. Some decent sunny spells, | :29:43. | :29:47. | |
though, between the showers tomorrow. But fog may linger over | :29:48. | :29:51. | |
the north-east of Scotland. But generally, a mild story. Not much to | :29:52. | :29:57. | |
pick between Thursday and Friday. Very similar day again. Showers | :29:58. | :30:02. | |
crowding into the south and west. Elsewhere, some sunny spells, and we | :30:03. | :30:06. | |
are still talking about a mild day. This weekend, the threat of heavy | :30:07. | :30:09. | |
rain is spreading across the British Isles again. Saturday, we are | :30:10. | :30:14. | |
talking about that . Sunday looks like the driest and brightest day of | :30:15. | :30:19. | |
the weekend. Bit of a question over where the heaviest rain to Saturday | :30:20. | :30:23. | |
will be. Currently, it looks like it will sit to the west of the British | :30:24. | :30:27. | |
Isles, but that could be subject to change, so it is worth keeping | :30:28. | :30:31. | |
up-to-date with the forecast. Sunday, it looks like we will see | :30:32. | :30:34. | |
that clearing through more and we will see more sunshine after any | :30:35. | :30:38. | |
early mist and fog lifts. It is definitely the driest and artist of | :30:39. | :30:44. | |
the two days this weekend. You can get the outlook from where you are | :30:45. | :30:46. | |
online. Now a reminder of our top story this | :30:47. | :30:51. | |
lunchtime. The trial of the Coronation Street | :30:52. | :30:53. | |
actor William Roache hears from his first alleged victim 14 years old at | :30:54. | :30:58. | |
the time. She says she was indecently assaulted at the star at | :30:59. | :31:01. | |
That's all from us. The Now on | :31:02. | :31:03. |