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raped twice by the Coronation Street star William Roache at his home when | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
she was 15. The jury heard he was cold and calculated during the | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
attacks, in 1967. The woman says she told no one because she blamed | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
herself. She will have the latest from our correspondent in court. A | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
major police search is under way in Edinburgh for a three-year-old boy, | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
who has gone missing from his home. The Chief Constable of Greater | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
Manchester Police is to be prosecuted for safety breaches after | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
an unarmed man was shot dead in Cheshire. The pioneering surgery | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
that it has improved the sight of six patients, who would have | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
otherwise gone blind. I sat outside and looked at the night sky and saw | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
the stars for the first time in about ten or 15 years. Which was | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
quite something for me because I always liked looking at the night | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
sky. Another scorcher at the Australian Open as temperatures of | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
more than 43 degrees halt play. She will have to get used to calling you | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
Rodney. Are you going to get this meeting started? Me and Dave haven't | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
got all night. And Farewell to Trigger, Roger Lloyd-Pack, star of | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
Only Fools And Horses, has died of cancer at the age of 69. | :01:21. | :01:27. | |
Later on BBC London, David Cameron defence delaying a decision about | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
Heathrow expansion until after the general election. And the East | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
London primary, which has banned fruit juice. We find out why. | :01:35. | :01:52. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News At One. A jury has been | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
hearing from a woman who says she was raped twice by the Coronation | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
Street star William Roache when she was 15. In video taped evidence | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
played to the court the woman, who is now 62, said there had been no | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
warning of what was about to happen and he had been cold and | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
calculating. Mr Roache, 81, denies five counts of indecent assault and | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
two counts of rape against five girls aged 16 and under. Our | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
correspondent Judith Moritz is outside the court for as now. | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
Yes, that is right and this morning the jury here in court room number | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
one has been listening to evidence about two rapes, which are said to | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
have happened nearly 50 years ago. The woman who says that William | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
Roache raped her back then didn't tell anyone at the time she says | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
because she blamed herself. She came forward to the police last year in | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal. | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
William Roache arrived at court for the third day of his trial knowing | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
that the jury would be hearing from the woman who says he raped her | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
twice. He walked into court with his daughter and two of his sons, who | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
sat in the public gallery watching the evidence. The actor began | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
playing Coronation Street's Ken Barlow in the soap's first episode | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
in 1960. Seven years later he is accused of raping the woman, who was | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
then a teenage girl. At the time William Roache owned properties in | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
the Lancashire town of Haslingden. The first rape is alleged to have | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
happened at his bungalow, the second is said to have been a few months | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
later at a cottage he owned nearby. Now aged 62, the woman whose | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
identity is protected appeared by video link. The court was shown tape | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
of an interview she did with police last year. Of the first rape, she | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
said, I can just remember thinking, God, I just want to get out of here. | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
I didn't know what to make of it. I was just so scared. The woman says | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
she didn't tell anyone, adding, I thought it must be my fault. I | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
didn't know why it had happened, I had gone round there in all | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
innocence. William Roache is also accused of indecently assaulting | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
four other women under the age of 16. He denies all the charges | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
against him. The woman also told the court that | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
her memory has been affected by a series of strokes and she described | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
William Roache as making her skin crawl, telling the court that she | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
had been particularly upset by an interview the actor did with Piers | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
Morgan in recent years about his love life. Her evidence is expected | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
to continue this afternoon before the defence go on to cross-examine | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
her. Judice, thank you very much. Police | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
have launched a major search for a three-year-old boy, who has gone | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
missing from his home in Edinburgh. Mikaeel Kular hasn't been seen since | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
he went to bed last night, when his family woke this morning they | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
couldn't find him. That speaks our correspondent Lorna Gordon in | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
Edinburgh. What are the police saying? | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
Mikaeel lives in this estate in the north of Edinburgh with his mother | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
and four siblings. All morning police have been conducting | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
door-to-door enquiries in this area. They want to find the little boy and | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
get him back to his family. Mikaeel Kular, three years old, | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
missing and now the focus of a big police search. The toddler was last | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
seen by his mother when she put him to bed around 9pm yesterday evening. | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
When she woke he had disappeared from his room and from the family | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
home. A police helicopter, sniffer dogs and a significant number of | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
officers are now looking for the young child. Temperatures were low | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
overnight and they are appealing for help in trying to find him. He's a | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
three-year-old boy who if he is wondering will be cold and hungry | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
and looking for shelter, no doubt. You might have crawled in somewhere | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
and fall asleep if he has been out wandering early this morning, so | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
have a look in your own areas, have a look in your garage is, your | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
outhouses, your common stair, any cupboards in the common stair, | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
anywhere a three-year-old could climb into to seek some shelter to | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
try and get warm. Mikaeel is said to be a friendly and playful young boy | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
and neighbours are shocked at his disappearance. The first thing my | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
wife said this morning, she said where do you start looking? It is | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
quite a scary thing, actually, you know. The three-year-old is of Asian | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
appearance. He could be wearing a beige jacket, blue jogging trousers | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
and brown shoes. Police are keeping an open mind as to what has happened | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
to him. They just want to get him home safe to his mother, who is said | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
to be distraught. Of course, police are also going to | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
be trying to work out how exactly he left his home. These are modern | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
flats with apparently good security. In the last few moments we've seen | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
police forensic officers enter this street and go round to the back of a | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
block of flats here. They'll be assisting with this investigation. | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
Lorna, thank you very much. The Chief Constable of Greater | :06:56. | :06:57. | |
Manchester Police has been prosecuted over the shooting dead of | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
an unarmed man. Sir Peter Fahy is being charged under the health and | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
saved the laws because of what prosecutors called serious | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
deficiencies in preparations for the operation in which Anthony Grainger | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
died in 2012. Our home affairs correspondent Matt Prodger is with | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
me now. Explain the background to this and just how serious this is | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
also Peter. Anthony Grainger was travelling in a car which was | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
stopped by officers from Greater Manchester Police who were | :07:25. | :07:26. | |
investigating a suspected armed robbery. He was shot in the chest | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
and as a result of that he died. Now the decision today by the | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
pro-prosecution service to prosecute Greater Manchester Police and in | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
particular Sir Peter Fahy is not on charges of murder or manslaughter | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
but in fact for alleged breaches of health and save the they say in | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
their statement it is alleged that an unnecessary exposure to risk was | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
caused by serious deficiency in the preparation of the police operation. | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
And in accordance with the health and safety law its senior officers | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
and in this case no more senior than the Chief Constable and self, who | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
face criminal liability. Now no charges will however be brought | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
against the firearms officers who shot dead Mr Granger. The CPS | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
decided that if that was to be a successful prosecution the jury | :08:13. | :08:13. | |
would have to believe his actions were unreasonable and unnecessary | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
and that that officer believed them to be so they didn't believe a jury | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
would find that to be the case. Now this is not without precedent. There | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
have been cases before where forces have been prosecuted, notably back | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
in 2007 the Metropolitan Police had to pay fines and costs in relation | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
to the shooting of John Charles to ministers at Jock -- at Stockwell | :08:36. | :08:42. | |
Tube station. The former US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has told the | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
BBC that cuts to Britain's armed forces could prevent it from being a | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
full partner with the US in future military operations. He said that | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
reductions in spending threatened to limit the UK's position in the world | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
but is this morning David Cameron insisted that Britain is still a | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
first-class player in defence. I don't agree with him. I think he's | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
got it wrong. We have the fourth largest defence budget anywhere in | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
the world. We are actually investing in future capabilities, so we're | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
building two new aircraft carriers, replacement for our Trident | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
submarines, type 45 destroyers, the new type of frigate will stop we've | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
got a massive investment programme of ?160 billion in our defence | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
industries, in our equipment. We are first-class player in terms of | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
defence and as long as I'm prime minister that is the way it will | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
stay. David Cameron speaking this morning. Let's speak to our defence | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
correspondent who is outside the Ministry of Defence. Explain what | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
the US Defence Secretary William Gates says we are lacking? He used | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
the example of no aircraft carrier. No aircraft carrier of the 10-year | :09:48. | :09:49. | |
is even though the Prime Minister pointed out two are being built and | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
one will be operational by the end of the decade but we don't have | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
maritime patrol aircraft after they scrapped the Nimrod. I think here at | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
the MoD there will be a mixture of first of all hurt, wounded pride, | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
because professional soldiers, sailors and airmen like to look | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
their American colleagues in the eye and say we are as good as you. I | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
think also though there will be a sense this is helpful to them | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
because remember they are arguing both the defence secretary and the | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
chief of the defence staff against further cuts. They will be able to | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
go to the Treasury to George Osborne and say look, this is what our | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
closest ally as saying. Whether it will work is another matter of | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
course. Jonathan Beale, thank you very | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
much. An 84-year-old man from Canada who was being held at an immigration | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
centre in the UK died in handcuffs after he was taken to hospital. He | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
was suffering from dementia. Prison inspectors say his was one of a | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
series of shocking cases at the privately run Harmondsworth | :10:47. | :10:48. | |
immigration removal Centre near Heathrow. Their report said that | :10:49. | :10:50. | |
management has created an environment in which a sense of | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
humanity had been lost. Here is our home affairs correspondent, Tom | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
Symonds. Harmondsworth immigration centre is | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
the place where people do UK Border Agency intends to remove from | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
Britain are detained. And that makes it a difficult place to manage. As | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
its troubled history demonstrates. In 2006 the centre was badly damaged | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
in disturbances. It had been improving but today's report says | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
it's in a state of drift. There are particular concerns about the times | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
when staff have to move vulnerable detailing these, using handcuffs in | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
what the report describes as, an excessive and an acceptable manner. | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
These men were so ill that one died shortly after his handcuffs were | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
removed. In one case last February, where a man who had arrived here | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
from Canada who was known to the institution to have Alzheimer's, who | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
was taken to hospital and died while still in handcuffs, in our view that | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
was inhumane and completely lacking in any proportionality. Doctors had | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
declared this so unwell he shouldn't have been detained at all. The | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
report, resulting from a surprise inspection, and blames a lack of | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
intelligent assessments of the risks hosed by detainees. There is no need | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
to dehumanise them in this way and even if you are taken into detention | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
remember, these are not criminals. You are entitled to a good quality | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
degree of health care and you are entitled to be treated like a human | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
being and that is not is what is happening. The private GEO group | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
which runs Harmondsworth says it only uses handcuffs when there's a | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
risk that a detainee might abscond but says managers have to use their | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
discretion to take difficult decisions and we've eschewed them | :12:38. | :12:39. | |
with additional guidance. The government says that this incident | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
is completely unjustified and must not be repeated. Labour wants the | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
government to review the contract it has for Harmondsworth. Ministers say | :12:51. | :12:52. | |
they are monitoring the performance of this place closely. | :12:53. | :13:00. | |
Britain's National Crime Agency says it has broken up and organised crime | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
group that was abusing children to order over the Internet. The NCA | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
says five people have gone to prison in the UK after using webcams to | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
direct the abuse of children in the Philippines. The agency says it has | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
identified more than 120 other British men suspected of being | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
involved by paying for the live streaming of sexual abuse. Angus | :13:23. | :13:24. | |
Crawford reports. A small house in a quiet road in | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
Northamptonshire. The heart of an international online paedophile | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
network. From here Timothy Ford directed the sexual abuse of | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
children thousands of miles away. What the National Crime Agency found | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
on his computer led police to this house in the Philippines were 12 | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
children were rescued. One was just six years old. The NCA discovered | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
Ford offered other paedophiles the chance to watch the abuse to. Men | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
like Thomas Owen from Merseyside. Their conversations online show Ford | :14:01. | :14:07. | |
offering a win what he calls live shows. And that some of the children | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
in his words are really cute. We traced the house that was rated as | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
part of what the National Crime Agency called Operation Endeavour. | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
This was the first successful joint operation by police from the | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
Philippines, from Australia and from Britain. Policing the UK say there | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
will be more raids like this in the future. There are over 700 suspects | :14:31. | :14:37. | |
around the world, over 100 of which of that figure are here in the UK. | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
That shocking, isn't it? Very shocking and people need to | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
realise, let's call this what it is. This is not an Internet crime, | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
this is a crime which is facilitated by the Internet. This is child | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
sexual you is. Philippine police raid another house where girls were | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
forced to perform in front of computers. Despite these operations | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
there is criticism authorities are round -- around the world still not | :15:05. | :15:12. | |
doing enough. do we like all men? No, we don't. Last year researchers | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
from a Dutch charity posed online is a ten-year-old Filipino goal. They | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
used an avatar and called her sweetie. 20,000 men offered her | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
money to perform sex acts in front of a webcam. The man behind the | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
operation believes police should follow the charity's tactics. These | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
children are, will be scarred for life once the crime takes place so | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
obviously we are in favour of a more proactive approach which allows the | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
law enforcement intervene before the crime takes place. The children | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
abused by Ford are now safe but charities say tens of thousands of | :15:49. | :15:50. | |
others remain at risk. The top stories: The William Roache | :15:51. | :16:03. | |
trial has heard from the woman who alleges she was raped twice by the | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
Coronation Street star - at his home when she 15. Still to come: For | :16:08. | :16:16. | |
decades we've been causing ourselves problems by draining the uplands and | :16:17. | :16:18. | |
making it flood downstream. Now there's a new idea, working with | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
nature instead of against it. Later on BBC London. The NBA has landed - | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
players call for the capital to launch its own team as they prepare | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
for tonight's game at the O2. And an independent film about life in | :16:31. | :16:32. | |
Tooting has won international acclaim - we talk to its director. | :16:33. | :16:45. | |
For more than a decade Wayne Thompson had looked up into the | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
night sky but his sight was so bad he was unable to see the stars above | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
him. Now though, after pioneering work by surgeons in Oxford, he's one | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
of six patients whose sight has been improved by using gene therapy. | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
Their findings have now been published in the medical journal, | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
the Lancet. As our Science Correspondent Palab Ghosh reports, | :17:03. | :17:04. | |
doctors are hopeful the procedure could be used to treat age-related | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
blindness which affects 300,000 people in the UK and millions across | :17:08. | :17:22. | |
the world. Wayne Thompson has a rare genetic condition. He was told he | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
would lose his sight in ten years. He was among those who had a | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
pioneering gene therapy operation which BBC News reported two years | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
ago. It has improved his vision. I sat outside and looked up at the | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
night sky and saw stars for the first time in ten years. It was | :17:43. | :17:49. | |
quite something. Because of a faulty gene, it sells at the back of | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
Wayne's I have been dying. Doctors stopped these from dying by | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
injecting new working copies of the gene. They also believe that some of | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
the cells they thought were dead have been revitalised and have | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
improved his vision. The doctors have been amazed by how much the | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
vision has improved. They have shown that the gene therapy is safe and | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
effective, and believe it could be used to treat more common forms of | :18:20. | :18:28. | |
blindness. More common forms, such as age related blindness, which | :18:29. | :18:30. | |
affects millions of people worldwide, involves many genes so | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
will be more complex to cure. Patient groups leave it will be | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
possible. It is at an early stage but it does offer hope for | :18:43. | :18:53. | |
conditions with a genetic basis. It offers help for Blau coma. As the | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
process advances, there is hope it could be transferred across and | :19:01. | :19:02. | |
provide cures for those common illnesses. When he was first | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
diagnosed, doctors told Wayne he would not see his daughter grow up. | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
Following his gene therapy, he now hopes to see his grandchildren. | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
Three of the high street's big names say they've had an excellent | :19:19. | :19:20. | |
Christmas. Argos, Currys PC World and Primark all reported strong | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
sales with one boss saying their business took off "like a rocket" | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
once the sales had begun. Here's our business correspondent, Emma | :19:27. | :19:33. | |
Simpson. It has been a challenging few years for Currys PC World. | :19:34. | :19:44. | |
Christmas has been good with sales 5% higher than last year. The boss | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
told me that he found it more nerve wracking than usual. We kicked off | :19:50. | :19:57. | |
with this new American holiday, Thanksgiving, a huge promotional | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
period, and then we went into two or three weeks which were a bit | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
quieter, wondering when Christmas would start. It then took off like a | :20:06. | :20:13. | |
rocket. We had a massive Boxing Day with ?100,000 a minute going through | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
the tills. It was not that long ago that Dixons was believed to be | :20:17. | :20:27. | |
ending. Many customers are now browsing in the shops before | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
browsing online. Argos is also reinventing itself. Strong demand | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
for gaming consoles and tablets have helped deliver its strongest | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
Christmas period in a decade. Half of its sales were online with many | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
collecting in-store. Here is another retailer that has had a good | :20:49. | :20:55. | |
Christmas. How is Primark able to get the sales without being online? | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
Primark is an exception that proves the rule. Shoppers flock to Primark | :21:01. | :21:09. | |
and they like the style of Primark. The other issue is that they sell at | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
such low prices and it is not economic for them to sell online. | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
Online has been a central for the rest of the High Street. These last | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
few weeks have proved that customers want to shock in store and have the | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
convenience of browsing and buying on the Internet as well. More rain | :21:29. | :21:35. | |
is forecast across the UK over the next few days and The next few days | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
look like turning rainy again and there are still 19 flood warnings in | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
force across the UK. The recent spate of bad weather is estimated to | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
have cost insurers ?400 million. Now there are calls to invest more money | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
in schemes which protect properties close to a river by deliberately | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
flooding hilly areas upstream. Our Environment Analyst Roger Harrabin | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
has been to see how they work. Fallen trees block a scream in | :22:01. | :22:07. | |
Northumberland. -- a stream. They were pushed into the water to block | :22:08. | :22:15. | |
flooding. In heavy rain, the water spills over into surrounding | :22:16. | :22:22. | |
woodland, creating floods up here. For decades we have been causing | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
ourselves problems by draining the upper limbs and making it floods | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
downstream. Now there is a new idea, working with nature instead of | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
against it. Branches strewn across the wooden floor help to stop the | :22:36. | :22:45. | |
flow of water. On the open ground is another experiment. This leaky dam | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
catches water flowing off the fields and allows it to soak into the | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
ground, instead of swelling the river. We need to change our | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
thinking on how we deal with rivers. We have dealt with problems where it | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
has occurred but we should look upstream and how the water runs off | :23:06. | :23:13. | |
the land. In this pub they are drinking to the apparent success of | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
the flood prevention scheme. Life was fairly miserable. We had five | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
floods over two years and every time it's happened, people were knee deep | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
in water, carpets were soaked, it was dreadful. We needed an answer. | :23:30. | :23:36. | |
The flooding has stopped altogether and transform everything for | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
everybody here. Work has begun on another prevention scheme in | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
Yorkshire. Here they plan to force the river into a concrete pipe and | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
then capture the overflow with a steel wall covered in soil. | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
Engineers are frustrated that low-cost projects have struggled to | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
get funding. We know schemes like this work. Slowing down the flow | :24:00. | :24:06. | |
really does work. What we need is more of these schemes and we need to | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
be able to do it more quickly and in order to do that we need the | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
political commitment to make things happen. The government says it is | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
providing leadership on flooding but that land management is complicated | :24:23. | :24:30. | |
and needs to be done right. The extreme heat in Australia has been | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
taking its toll on players again today. Andy Murray's brother Jamie | :24:34. | :24:35. | |
had to be treated for heatstroke after winning his doubles match at | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
the Australian Open in Melbourne. Play had to be halted as | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
temperatures exceeded 43 degrees. Meanwhile Andy Murray has been on | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
court in the second round as Jon Donnison reports. Even the violent | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
thunderstorms over Melbourne failed to clear the air on court today. | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
Temperatures were in the 40s, leaving many players struggling and | :24:58. | :25:08. | |
unhappy. How was that? So hard! By early afternoon, for the first time | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
this week, officials announced matches would be suspended because | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
of the heat. On the two principal courts, the roots were closed and | :25:18. | :25:24. | |
the air conditioning was turned on. -- roof. The tournament's manager | :25:25. | :25:32. | |
defended the decision to allow players to play in the heat. Nobody | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
is saying it is comfortable to play under these conditions, but from my | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
perspective, we know that man is well adapted to exercising in the | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
heat. It is not just the players who are suffering. Fans have been doing | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
their best to keep cool. Someone just poured a bucket of water over | :25:55. | :26:03. | |
us. I got out of the plane yesterday and I felt like I was walking into a | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
sauna. Today it was several hours before the heat relented. Today has | :26:10. | :26:16. | |
been a day where the weather got the better of the tennis. It has been | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
frustrating for fans. Play was allowed to resume briefly after some | :26:21. | :26:27. | |
respite from the heat. It is still around about 100 Fahrenheit. As you | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
can see, the dark storm clouds have come, and play has been interrupted | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
again. The delays meant it was almost 10pm before Andy Murray began | :26:39. | :26:46. | |
his second round match. Andy Murray seemed to enjoy playing at a cooler | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
time of day, winning in straight sets. His brother Jamie is suffering | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
from heat stroke after his doubles match. The hot weather is set to | :26:57. | :27:03. | |
continue until Friday. The Only Fools and Horses star, Roger | :27:04. | :27:05. | |
Lloyd-Pack, has died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 69. In a career | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
that began in the 1960s, he'd also appeared in dozens of films and TV | :27:12. | :27:19. | |
shows including The Vicar Of Dibley. I think we are on a winner here. | :27:20. | :27:34. | |
Play it is nice and cool. As the hapless Trigger, his character was | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
one of the most essential characters on the show. Nobody has doubled with | :27:40. | :27:50. | |
live puppies before! -- juggled. Equally well loved was his portrayal | :27:51. | :27:55. | |
as a farmer in the long-running show The Vicar of Dibley. Christmas is | :27:56. | :28:02. | |
all about the baby Jesus, isn't it? I would warn you to be very careful | :28:03. | :28:09. | |
before you suggest juggling babies! An appearance in the fourth film of | :28:10. | :28:16. | |
the Harry Potter series brought him to a new generation of viewers. Mr | :28:17. | :28:27. | |
Potter has no choice. Although best known for his film and TV work, he | :28:28. | :28:32. | |
was a classically trained actor and during his career, he performed at | :28:33. | :28:37. | |
venues across the UK including London's Globe. He was politically | :28:38. | :28:42. | |
active and a prominent campaigner for causes he felt passionately | :28:43. | :28:48. | |
about. He was an entirely intelligent performer. Basil, are | :28:49. | :28:53. | |
you going to get this meeting started? Me and Dave have not got | :28:54. | :28:59. | |
all night. He loved making people laugh. Roger Lloyd-Pack, who has | :29:00. | :29:09. | |
died at the age of 69. Now I look at the weather. Good afternoon. So far | :29:10. | :29:14. | |
today it has been a lottery with the weather. A few breaks in the cloud | :29:15. | :29:22. | |
but the further west it is, the more disappointing. You can see the | :29:23. | :29:27. | |
shower clouds spiralling around in an anticlockwise direction towards | :29:28. | :29:31. | |
the West. Some breaks, the further east you are. Very wet and windy in | :29:32. | :29:36. | |
the north, perhaps severe gales across the northern isles. The | :29:37. | :29:42. | |
showers will push inland, although sheltered eastern areas should | :29:43. | :29:49. | |
escape any trouble. Seven degrees the overall high. A strong | :29:50. | :29:54. | |
south-westerly winds driving the showers across England and Wales, | :29:55. | :29:59. | |
some of them heavy. Further north, clearer skies and patchy frost and | :30:00. | :30:05. | |
fog. Maybe icy patches. Overnight lows, a little cooler in the North | :30:06. | :30:09. | |
West, but generally around five or seven degrees. The rain lingers in | :30:10. | :30:14. | |
the northern isles. A disappointingly wet day tomorrow. | :30:15. | :30:19. | |
Some patchy fog for Northern Ireland and Scotland. Some rumbles of | :30:20. | :30:24. | |
thunder as well. Showers across England and Wales will be heavy. You | :30:25. | :30:29. | |
can see, quite clearly, a rash of showers across Scotland's, England | :30:30. | :30:37. | |
and Wales. -- Scotland. The difference with Friday is that the | :30:38. | :30:41. | |
winds will become lighter in the afternoon and the showers will ease | :30:42. | :30:45. | |
in the West. The strongest of the winds will be in the Shetland | :30:46. | :30:50. | |
Isles. The showers may linger for much of the afternoon. If we look | :30:51. | :30:56. | |
down to the south west, you can see the greens and yellows, an | :30:57. | :31:02. | |
indication of what is to come. The low pressure is never too far away. | :31:03. | :31:07. | |
The rain drives up from the south, and it looks like it will be a wet | :31:08. | :31:13. | |
day in prospect on Saturday. The front eases off into the North Sea. | :31:14. | :31:18. | |
The latter stages of the weekend, perhaps showers here. On Saturday, | :31:19. | :31:22. | |
you will be very lucky if you escape the rain. All of us seeing some rain | :31:23. | :31:29. | |
at some point on Saturday. Sunday will be a slightly quieter day. A | :31:30. | :31:32. | |
case of sunny spells and scattered showers. Thank you. Now at half past | :31:33. | :31:40. | |
one a reminder of our top story... The William Roache trial has heard | :31:41. | :31:46. | |
from the woman who alleges she was raped twice at his home when she was | :31:47. | :31:52. | |
15. Still to come: Nominations for this | :31:53. | :31:53. |