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huge fall in unemployment. It fell by 167,000 to just over 2.3 million, | :00:09. | :00:23. | |
the biggest fall since 1997. The dramatic fall in the jobless rate | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
from 7.4% to 7.1% is the big surprise, and prompts questions | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
about interest rates going up. Also this lunchtime: Angry exchanges as | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
Syrian peace talks get underway in Switzerland. | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
The former England footballer Stan Collymore accuses Twitter of not | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
doing enough to stop death threats and racist abuse online. | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
At least three people have died in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, as the | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
violence between police and protesters grows. | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
A court hears that Coronation Street actor William Roache told police | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
that rape was against his nature and he was a very peaceful person. | :00:53. | :01:01. | |
And Andy Murray is out of the Australian Open, as Roger Federer | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
takes his place in the semifinals. Later on BBC London: Campaigners | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
lose their Supreme Court battle against the proposed HS2 rail link. | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
And London's getting younger, as more families choose to stay in the | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
capital. Good afternoon and welcome to the | :01:20. | :01:40. | |
BBC News at One. The Bank of England says there is no rush to raise | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
interest rates, despite a dramatic fall in unemployment, down to 2.32 | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
million. The jobless rate now stands at 7.1%, just above the 7% mark at | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
which the bank said it would consider raising interest rates from | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
their current all-time low. The latest figures show that the number | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
of people in work also grew by a record amount. Here is our chief | :02:02. | :02:10. | |
economics correspondent, Hugh Pym. Companies like this are on the | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
move, and that is why unemployment is falling fast. This high-tech | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
business in Derby makes carbon fibre components for industries like car | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
manufacturing. It started up just six years ago, and already has more | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
than 40 staff, one reason why Derby saw the biggest fall in its jobless | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
total of any area last year. Aaron and his father Keith have both been | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
taken on recently, and it has given them a new lease of life. It was | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
horrible being out of work. It was a great feeling to get the job. When I | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
got the call, it was overwhelming. Local training providers do their | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
bit. At Derby College, they work with employers who are recruiting | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
and help people out of a job prepare for interviews. The head of the | :02:59. | :03:00. | |
programme said that whereas most jobs used to be in retailing, there | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
is now a broader spread. There has been a change in opportunities, more | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
warehouse distribution, more engineering, more travel and | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
tourism. That is something else for the area. I think the process we | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
have put into place has helped many people into jobs. Better than | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
expected news on jobs is a major issue for the Bank of England. Under | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
the forward guidance policy, it says it will start thinking about raising | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
interest rates when the unemployment rate comes down to 7%. When the | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
policy was unveiled by the governor, Mark Carney, last August, the | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
jobless rate was 7.8% of the workforce. The bank thought it would | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
stay above seven for at least three years. But by December, the reported | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
rate had fallen to 7.4%, and today we learnt that it has fallen again | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
to 7.1. When the Bank of England first set up its forward guidance | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
system, they said they would not raise until the middle of next year. | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
Now, the speed of improvement in the activity and employment data suggest | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
that they may have to consider raising rates this year. Most hearts | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
of the UK saw a fall in unemployment. There was a small | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
increase in Northern Ireland. We also learned today that while more | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
people are in work, average pay rises are still running at less than | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
half the rate of inflation. The squeeze on consumer budgets has not | :04:23. | :04:23. | |
gone away. And Hugh is here. Sorry dramatic | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
fall in unemployment figures come in but questions now about interest | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
rates and when they could go up? Yes, a much bigger fall in | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
unemployment and analyst habit spectacle. It is now at the lowest | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
level since early 2009. The number of vacancies out there in the | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
economy is at the highest since 2008, so a much stronger picture | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
than people expected. So what does it mean for interest rates? As you | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
have been hearing, it is this 7% threshold at which the Bank of | :04:56. | :04:57. | |
England has said it will start considering rate rises. The minutes | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
of its latest meeting suggest that even if unemployment does get to 7%, | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
it is in no rush to raise interest rates at all. It will sit back and | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
consider other things. That reflects some of the Bank of England | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
recently, that the 7% does not in any way immediately trigger a rate | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
rise. Inflation remains low at 2%. They will not be in a hurry. But | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
there is a communication issue here, because the markets certainly think | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
the rate rise has been brought forward as a result of today's | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
figures, and the bank will have a job to be negating its thinking over | :05:32. | :05:33. | |
the next month or so. Our chief political correspondent, | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
Norman Smith, is in Westminster. Prime Minister's Questions ended a | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
short time ago. The reaction there? I think it was very revealing, | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
because you could sense the buoyancy on the conservative benches. It | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
seems to me that our American cousins often refer to what they | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
call the big momentum, and you just sense that politically, on the | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
economy, momentum is now coming behind the coalition, not just | :06:04. | :06:05. | |
because of today's falling unemployment, but because we have | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
had a steady diet of better economic news, be it on inflation, growth or | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
car sales, you name it. The point about the big Mo is not just the | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
psychological lift it gives to a government, but also that it can | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
make life extremely difficult for an opposition. For the moment, Ed | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
Miliband and labour are sticking with their cost of living crisis | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
narrative. But it is becoming a hard argument to make. The prime minister | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
taunted Mr Milan in the Commons of now casting around for something | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
critical to say. -- Mr Miliband. We had the banking problem. Then we | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
had the deficit problem, and now we have the cost of living problem. | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
He's like an arsonist who goes round setting fire after fire, and then | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
complains when the fire brigade aren't putting out the fires fast | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
enough! Why doesn't he start with an apology for the mess that he left | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
us? SPEAKER: Mr Ed Miliband! He comes here every week and does his | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
Bullingdon club routine, and all he shows, and all he shows, is that he | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
has absolutely no understanding of the lives of people up and down this | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
country. That is the reality. Ordinary families are working | :07:14. | :07:21. | |
harder, for longer, for less. The help of Mr Miliband will be that | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
beneath the headlines, many families are still finding things | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
extraordinarily difficult. But it seems to me that the flip side of | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
the big Mo is the big slow. And the real danger for Labour, as they | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
begin slowly, but remorselessly, to lose traction on their core cost of | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
living argument. Talks aimed at ending three years of | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
civil war in Syria have begun in Switzerland. The Syrian government | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
and the main opposition groups are attending the summit, along with | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
international allies. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon told | :07:54. | :07:55. | |
delegates that they faced a "formidable challenge", but there | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
was a chance to "make a new beginning". Our Middle East | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
correspondent, Paul Wood, is at the talks in Montreux. | :08:03. | :08:11. | |
It is not the obvious choice of venue to end a war, but hotels near | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
the UN's Geneva headquarters were full with the watchmakers' | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
convention. Instead, the pretty lakeside town of Montreux played | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
host to the bitter enemies of Syria's civil war. So, face-to-face | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
for the first time, Syria's government and the opposition | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
seeking to overthrow President Assad. Crucially, they are not | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
talking directly to each other yet. Now is the time for speeches, each | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
aimed at their own domestic constituencies. The Syrian | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
government will brook no talk of Mr Assad's future. Instead, they want | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
help to suppress the armed rebellion. TRANSLATION: They are | :08:51. | :08:57. | |
carrying out terrorist attacks, although they claim to be fighting | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
terrorists. The media are lauding these people, these terrorists, by | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
claiming they are moderate, although they know full well that they are | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
extremist than terrorists. As he went over time, the UN | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
Secretary-General tried to cut him short. You live in New York, I live | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
in Syria, he angrily told Ban Ki-Moon. After three years of | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
suffering, I have the right to speak. One sentence, just to keep | :09:23. | :09:29. | |
your promise. It was a bad tempered exchange, with the newly -- usually | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
mild-mannered Mr band. It was a sign of the intractable nature of the | :09:36. | :09:37. | |
problem here. The opposition only came here because they were promised | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
they would be able to discuss the end of the regime. TRANSLATION: We | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
need a quick and serious cooperation to reach a solution. This needs the | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
full conviction of all parties, not only giving authority to a new | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
transitional government, but also the departure of Bashar al-Assad. | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
There is no way, no way possible in the imagination, that the man who | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
has led the brutal response to his own people could regain the | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
legitimacy of government. One man and those who have supported him can | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
no longer hold an entire nation and a region hostage. There seems a | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
fundamental divergences of views over whether or not this conference | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
is about regime change. What progress is possible with the two | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
sides so far apart? At the end of this week, how should we measure | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
success or failure at these talks? I think at the end of this week, it | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
will just be that they are going on. I really don't want to raise | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
expectations about what we achieved this week. It has been an immense | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
effort to bring the Syrian regime and opposition together at all, so | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
no one should expect a breakthrough this week. Meanwhile, the war goes | :10:52. | :10:58. | |
on, with 130,000 head by one count. President Assad has survived in the | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
face of many predictions of his demise, but he cannot win an | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
outright victory, and neither can the rebels. The hope of this | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
conference lies in both sides recognising that fact, and beginning | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
a dialogue here in Switzerland. Almost 2.5 million people have fled | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
Syria since the fighting began in 2011. More than one million have | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
gone to neighbouring Lebanon, many of them sheltering in the north of | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
the country, which now has more than 200 refugee camps. Our | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
correspondent, Jim Muir, is at one of them, the UN refugee centre in | :11:31. | :11:38. | |
Zahle in the Bekaa Valley. It seems a long way from the 5-star | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
hotels of Switzerland, where the fate of these refugees is ultimately | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
being decided. At this registration centre at Zahle in the Bekaa Valley, | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
about a thousand refugees are being enrolled every single day. It is a | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
lengthy process. The pressure of numbers is so great that some of | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
these people have already waited several months before getting an | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
appointment to come and register. There are people here from all over | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
Syria. Every one of them has a story to tell of violence and destruction | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
and lives disrupted. This man was just talking to us when there was a | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
sudden interruption. A car tyre exploding caused a moment of panic, | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
but these people have all been through far worse. They are aware of | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
the talks in Switzerland, but nobody seems optimistic. TRANSLATION: | :12:32. | :12:39. | |
Geneva is just a photo opportunity. The outside countries don't want a | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
solution. Meanwhile, the Syrians are dying and no one cares. If there is | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
a solution now, of course we would go home. But anything that leaves | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
Bashar al-Assad or any of his regime in power would be impossible. | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
Meeting all the needs of all the refugees is clearly impossible. All | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
the relief agencies are chronically short of funds, and the problem is | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
getting bigger every day. All I can do is try to continue to communicate | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
the great misery that this conflict continues to have on the lives of | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
refugees, those who have been displaced within Syria and those who | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
have been displaced as well, and also the enormous challenges for | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
hosting countries like Lebanon. A generation of children are having to | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
be cared for here, growing up in exile. Any Lebanese are now | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
wondering about the implications for them if there is no solution to | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
allow the huge number of Syrians to go home. | :13:37. | :13:46. | |
Let's go back to Switzerland and those talks. | :13:47. | :13:48. | |
Our Middle East correspondent, Paul Wood, is in Montreux. We heard | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
William Hague saying earlier that it was an immense effort just to get | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
these talks going. What hope is there of achieving anything? | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
Firstly, nobody should worry that the real issues here would be | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
obscured by the diplomatic niceties. As we saw in the news package, there | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
were some direct exchanges. Right at the start, Ban Ki-Moon appeal to the | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
delegates to use constructive language, not to be inflammatory. | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
Then, we had from the Syrian Foreign minister what some have described as | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
a diatribe . He called the opposition foreign agents and | :14:23. | :14:24. | |
terrorists. And then, looking around the table at some representatives of | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
other Arab governments, he said some had used petrodollars to finance the | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
overthrow of his government. One of the governments on the receiving end | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
of those remarks, Saudi Arabia, accused Mr Assad and the Syrian | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
regime of having blood on its hands. This is about the fundamental | :14:43. | :14:44. | |
problem at the opposition thinks it is here on the basis that it is all | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
about regime change, whereas for the regime and the delegation that Mr | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
Assad has and, the discussions are about anything but that. The hope | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
resides in Friday's meeting, when they will meet face to face behind | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
closed doors. Perhaps the posturing . And they will get down to | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
practical issues like cease-fire and access for humanitarian aid, small | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
steps which might improve the situation for people in the middle | :15:09. | :15:15. | |
of this civil war in Syria. And you can keep up to date with | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
those talks throughout the afternoon on the BBC News Channel. | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
The former England footballer, Stan Collymore, has criticised Twitter | :15:23. | :15:24. | |
for not doing enough to combat abusive messages after he received | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
death threats and racist abuse on the social networking site. Police | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
are investigating the messages which were posted after Collymore | :15:32. | :15:33. | |
suggested that the Liverpool striker Luis Suarez dived during Saturday's | :15:34. | :15:35. | |
game against Aston Villa. Sarah Campbell reports. | :15:36. | :15:58. | |
Dive from Luis Suarez. Comments made by Stan Golem or. He dived like a | :15:59. | :16:14. | |
toddler, not a professional athlete. There have been ten or 15 foul | :16:15. | :16:23. | |
messages of racial abuse. But also threats of murder. I would suggest | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
that is a serious crime. If that happened on the street, there would | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
be action. Twitter are taking no action. With 400 million tweets | :16:35. | :16:42. | |
being sent worldwide every day, monitoring them is a huge task. The | :16:43. | :16:50. | |
online abusers are known as trawls. As will be shown on Crimewatch this | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
evening, the police are taking the issue seriously. We are talking | :16:57. | :17:06. | |
about three hours between something being seen on Twitter and is | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
knocking on the person's door. There have been convictions. This woman | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
was subjected to sustained abuse on Twitter after campaigning to have | :17:18. | :17:25. | |
Jane Austen only ?10 note. The people who have been found represent | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
the tiniest drop in the ocean. We are in a bad situation. I really | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
hope this latest flare-up will force Twitter to take some proper steps so | :17:35. | :17:44. | |
that everyone is protected. Tom Daley has been a frequent target for | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
abuse on social network websites. When ever I have had problems with | :17:50. | :17:56. | |
Twitter it has been sorted out quite quickly. I can't comment on what | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
they are doing behind-the-scenes. Twitter abuse is against rules on | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
Twitter. The police say the police say they are liaising with them | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
following Stan Collymore's complaint. | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
Our top story this lunchtime: No rush to raise interest rates says | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
the Bank of England despite a huge fall in unemployment. | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
And still to come, we hear from the wife of the Briton murdered on their | :18:25. | :18:25. | |
boat in the Caribbean. Later on BBC London: | :18:26. | :18:32. | |
A world first. Blackfriars Bridge shows off its new roof, complete | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
with 4,000 solar panels. And from acting to acrobatics. Why | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
Sadie Frost hopes to be flying high at Camden's Roundhouse. | :18:40. | :18:46. | |
The violence has escalated in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev. This | :18:47. | :18:54. | |
morning two people died during running battles between police and | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
demonstrators. They are the first fatalities since protests began in | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
November at the government's closer ties with Russia and its rejection | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
of a planned treaty with the EU. Our correspondent Daniel Sandford is in | :19:06. | :19:12. | |
Kiev. The hill near the parliament in | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
Ukraine was a battle ground again this morning. As most people were | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
eating breakfast, young men were throwing petrol bombs and rocks at | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
police lines. There had been a lull of 24 hours. When the police try to | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
clear some of the barricades, anger exploded again. Several times, we | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
saw officers firing on protesters when they got too close. They are | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
using plastic bullets, but this morning the first efforts were | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
confirmed by the police. In hospital, I found a retired military | :19:49. | :19:55. | |
man from Crimea who lost one of his eyes on Monday. TRANSLATION: I was | :19:56. | :20:06. | |
near the riot police when I was hit with a bullet. I removed it with my | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
hand. I was taken to hospital by ambulance. I had surgery | :20:11. | :20:17. | |
straightaway and my eye was removed. At times this morning, hundreds of | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
riot officers charged out beyond their lines, forcing everyone to | :20:23. | :20:30. | |
scatter. The police have now driven down the street where the protesters | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
have been for the last few days. They have cleared the streets and | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
are chasing the protesters back down towards the main square where | :20:40. | :20:41. | |
demonstrations have been going on for the last two months. The Prime | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
Minister today described the young fighters as terrorists. The | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
prosecutor general said they are a threat to national security. The | :20:53. | :21:00. | |
protesters called the president criminals. More peaceful | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
demonstrators sang the national anthem at the front line. This began | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
as a protest in favour of joining the European Union. As the | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
government has clamped down and introduced harsher laws, this small | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
part of the city has descended into chaos. | :21:20. | :21:31. | |
The jury in the trial of the Coronation Street star William | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
Roache has heard how he told police that rape was against his nature and | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
he was a very peaceful person. The actor said he was absolutely | :21:39. | :21:40. | |
surprised and amazed when the police first arrested him. And he | :21:41. | :21:43. | |
questioned whether the allegations had been made for a moment of fame. | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
Mr Roache denies two rapes and five indecent assaults between 1965 and | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
1971. Judith Moritz reports from Preston Crown Court. | :21:50. | :21:56. | |
William Roache arrived for the seventh day of his trial flanked by | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
his daughter on the right and his son on the left. His children have | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
been in the public gallery throughout the hearing is. Today the | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
court heard about the moment last May when William Roache was arrested | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
at his home in Cheshire on suspicion of two rapes. He told detectives he | :22:15. | :22:24. | |
was surprised and amazed. The prosecution claims that in 1967 the | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
Coronation Street actor raped a teenage girl twice. One of the | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
incidents happened at a bungalow that the actor had had built. After | :22:36. | :22:42. | |
his arrest, William Roache denied raping her. Asked why the allegation | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
might have been made, he told the police, it is the climate of what is | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
happening at the moment. A lot of people coming out to accuse | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
celebrities of alias things for various reasons. I don't know what | :22:57. | :23:03. | |
the motivation is. Perhaps a moment of fame. I am horrified by the whole | :23:04. | :23:12. | |
thing. You repeatedly denied the accusations of rape. You told the | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
police here is a peaceful and gentle person. I would never do anything to | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
offend or upset anybody. The 81-year-old actor is charged on five | :23:22. | :23:39. | |
counts of abusing girls. He denies all the charges. | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
Ministers have vowed to press ahead with the HS2 high-speed rail link | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
after winning a key legal victory in the Supreme Court. Objectors had | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
accused the Government of cutting corners to push through the fifty | :23:50. | :23:51. | |
billion pound project, saying they were in breach of European | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
environmental laws. But judges at the UK's highest court dismissed the | :23:55. | :23:56. | |
accusations. The economist Vicky Pryce who was | :23:57. | :23:59. | |
jailed for lying to police over speeding points received by her | :24:00. | :24:01. | |
ex-husband, the MP Chris Huhne, has returned to her role as a government | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
adviser. She resumed her unpaid position after serving her sentence | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
for perverting the course of justice. | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
A study confirming a link between pollution and the risk of a heart | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
attack has prompted experts to call for tougher clean-air targets in | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
Europe. Researchers found that the longer people are exposed to air | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
pollutants, the greater the risk. And the effects were seen at levels | :24:24. | :24:26. | |
below current safety limits, as our Health Correspondent Dominic Hughes | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
explains. The evidence that air pollution can | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
increase the risk of heart attacks is growing. Across the European | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
Union, there are already laws designed to reduce pollution. Now a | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
new report suggests people might experience harm even below those | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
levels. A study in five countries looked at the link between pollution | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
and heart attacks. It forward 100,000 people with no history of | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
heart problems. It found that as pollution increased, so did the | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
likelihood of a heart attack. We are talking about the size of particles | :25:06. | :25:15. | |
in diesel. You breathe in these particles and they go from your long | :25:16. | :25:22. | |
into your bloodstream. Then they can have effects throughout the body. | :25:23. | :25:29. | |
Experts stress the risk to the individual is relatively small. High | :25:30. | :25:32. | |
blood pressure or smoking still cause a much greater danger. If | :25:33. | :25:39. | |
people are being harmed even within the pollution limits of the EU, | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
experts say that even tougher regulation might be needed to. | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
Five men have been arrested for the murder of the British tourist Roger | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
Pratt who was attacked in the Caribbean. A postmortem examination | :25:52. | :25:54. | |
has revealed he was hit over the head aboard his yacht, Magnetic | :25:55. | :25:56. | |
Attraction, before being drowned on the island of St Lucia, from where | :25:57. | :26:03. | |
Michelle Fleury reports. This is the bay where Magnetic | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
Attraction was murdered, on the southern tip of the Caribbean | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
island. But that can't was brutally shattered. For Roger Pratt and his | :26:13. | :26:15. | |
wife Margaret, it should've been the trip of a lifetime. Late on Friday, | :26:16. | :26:22. | |
thieves burst onto their boat. The attack them and fled. Speaking for | :26:23. | :26:25. | |
the first time since her husband 's death, Margaret Pratt told the Saint | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
Lucia and government they had felt safe here. We had enjoyed our time | :26:32. | :26:39. | |
on St Lucia. We felt safe until those tragic events. We have had | :26:40. | :26:46. | |
considerable kindness from many people. But kindness is continuing. | :26:47. | :26:53. | |
Roger Pratt and his wife had called the sport home for the last six | :26:54. | :26:56. | |
months. Now it is a crime scene. The police have gathered evidence and | :26:57. | :27:03. | |
they are waiting for Margaret Pratt to come and collect it. The cause of | :27:04. | :27:16. | |
death was asphyxia due to trauma. We believe it was physical force with | :27:17. | :27:23. | |
no weapon. Five young men have now been arrested in connection with the | :27:24. | :27:26. | |
murder and are cooperating with police. The couple had been planning | :27:27. | :27:33. | |
this trip for a young time. But it ended abruptly. Their voyage to | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
celebrate the milestone birthday ending in heartache. | :27:38. | :27:43. | |
Andy Murray has been knocked out of the Australian Open in the quarter | :27:44. | :27:46. | |
finals by Roger Federer. At one point, when he was two sets down, | :27:47. | :27:49. | |
the British number one threatened a dramatic comeback. But in the end it | :27:50. | :27:52. | |
wasn't to be. Federer now faces Nadal in the semi-finals. Here is | :27:53. | :27:59. | |
our Sports Correspondent Andy Swiss. He had yet to be tested in | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
Melbourne, but Andy Murray knew that was about to change. His opponent, | :28:05. | :28:08. | |
only the most successful man in tennis history, but one still it | :28:09. | :28:13. | |
seems with a point to prove. Last year, Roger Federer looked like | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
yesterday's man. But you he was back to his fluent and flawless test. | :28:19. | :28:24. | |
Soon he had a two set lead. Murray was flailing only recently having | :28:25. | :28:33. | |
discovered from -- recovered from back surgery. But he claims the | :28:34. | :28:43. | |
third set tie-break. Then just when it mattered federal rolled back the | :28:44. | :28:49. | |
years. In a flash, it was over. On this form, and 18th Grand Slam title | :28:50. | :28:59. | |
could yet beckon for federal. For Andy Murray, dog display but | :29:00. | :29:01. | |
ultimately disappointing for him. Andy Murray, dog display but | :29:02. | :29:06. | |
The weather today is not looking so bad. By the end of the week, a | :29:07. | :29:13. | |
completely different story. Cloudy with some sunshine today. Quite wet | :29:14. | :29:17. | |
night last night. The cloud and rain is well out to see just now. The | :29:18. | :29:23. | |
thickest of the cloud is over the North Sea. Some sunshine poking | :29:24. | :29:27. | |
through. Not completely dry day because have some showers over many | :29:28. | :29:35. | |
western parts. More to come, especially over the north-west of | :29:36. | :29:39. | |
the UK. The showers will be getting into the western half of Scotland. | :29:40. | :29:45. | |
You will probably need your umbrella in Northern Ireland as well. For the | :29:46. | :29:51. | |
bulk of the UK, this afternoon will be not too bad. Frilly overcast with | :29:52. | :29:55. | |
some brightness poking through. Not too cold. Probably a degree or two | :29:56. | :30:04. | |
above average for the time of year. A decent end to the afternoon for | :30:05. | :30:10. | |
most of us. Tonight, more showers to come, many of them heavy and wintry | :30:11. | :30:14. | |
especially over the north and north-west of the country. This band | :30:15. | :30:24. | |
of rain will mean snow over many of the Scottish hills. Amassed a rush | :30:25. | :30:31. | |
hour over the Rowlands. -- a nasties rush hour over the lowlands. That | :30:32. | :30:40. | |
will sweep through late on and then the sun will come out. Thursday not | :30:41. | :30:44. | |
a bad day. Quite brisk. Temperatures will be down. Still some wintry | :30:45. | :30:51. | |
showers to come over the North of Scotland. On Friday, it is not | :30:52. | :30:58. | |
looking too great. The weekend is not looking great. This is early in | :30:59. | :31:02. | |
the morning. Rain and strengthening winds. The rain and wind will splash | :31:03. | :31:11. | |
its way through Friday night, so it looks as though you will be winning | :31:12. | :31:17. | |
in a number of areas on Friday evening. Gale force winds over the | :31:18. | :31:24. | |
north-east of Scotland. Saturday, we might get away with it. Could be | :31:25. | :31:29. | |
some sunshine around. Sunday is the day when the winds will pick up and | :31:30. | :31:33. | |
the rain will arrive. Looking quite next. -- mixed. | :31:34. | :31:42. | |
Now a reminder of our top story this lunchtime: | :31:43. | :31:44. |