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floods. The Environment Secretary visits the South West and promises | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
action. Eye had a good meeting this morning with two local MPs working | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
on a plan which I hope will sort out this problem over the next 20 | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
years. With more bad weather predicted, local people say they've | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
waited too long and are yet to be convinced. It has been like this for | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
three weeks, going on and on. And that is why he is here today. That | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
is why we got extra pumps today and that is why it is so tidy. This time | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
last night, it did not look like this. We'll explore some of the | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
proposed solutions as we report live from one of the UK's worst hit | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
areas. Also this lunchtime, the actor Jude Law tells the | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
phone-hacking trial the media had "an unhealthy amount of information" | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
about his life. Cutting red-tape, thousands of rules | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
for small businesses are to be scrapped or amended. David Cameron | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
says it'll save more than ?850 million a year And another honour | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
for Dame Helen Mirren. She's to be awarded with the British Academy of | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
Film and Television Arts' highest award, the BAFTA fellowship. | :01:12. | :01:22. | |
And coming up in the sport, Leighton Baines signs a four-year contract at | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
Everton. The England defender was twice a transfer target for David | :01:28. | :01:28. | |
Moyes at Manchester United. Good afternoon and welcome to the | :01:29. | :01:50. | |
BBC News at One. The Environment Secretary, Owen Paterson, has faced | :01:51. | :01:52. | |
angry criticism from flood victims on a visit to Somerset where large | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
areas remain under water and a "major incident" has been declared. | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
Mr Paterson was visiting a pumping facility when some residents took | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
the opportunity to voice their anger at the lack of regular dredging on | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
the Somerset Levels. More flooding is expected in parts of England and | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
Scotland. The Environment Agency still has 14 flood warnings in | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
place. Our correspondent Jon Kay is in Northmoor Green. | :02:17. | :02:28. | |
Things are definitely moving here on the Somerset Levels. 1 million | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
tonnes of floodwater is being pumped off the fields and into the rivers. | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
The Environment Secretary has told us in the last few minutes that this | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
is just the start. He says he now wants a long-term plan, a programme | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
in place to make sure that this kind of flooding that we have seen this | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
winter does not happen again. People around here have told us that they | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
are glad to hear that and they welcome the visit but they say it is | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
too little and too late. Why was this not done ages ago?! This was | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
never going to be an easy visit for Owen Paterson. There is a real anger | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
in this part of Somerset, not just that the flooding has happened but | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
that sense that this community has been ignored. Why was this not done | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
last year when it happened? Why have we only just had pumps Putin now? | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
Why?! It has been like this for three weeks and that is why he is | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
here today. That is why we got extra pumps yesterday. That is why it | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
looks so tidy. The Secretary of State saw the pumping equipment that | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
has been brought in to get rid of 10,000 tonnes of floodwater every | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
second. But many people believe it should have happened much earlier. | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
The main concern is the state of the river. Clogged up with silt from a | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
lack of dredging. Today, Mr Patterson announced the dredging | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
would almost certainly resume as part of a wider rescue strategy. It | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
appears that we need to dredge these rivers but also we need to do more | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
with suds, and holding what are back. We need to do more with soap | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
and planting. And there could be significant investment in a sluice | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
further down to hold Bridgewater. All that is a package and it is a | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
partnership. The agencies and authorities have | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
been given six weeks to come up with a plan which Mr Patterson says he | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
will sign off if it is viable. For years, people here have been told | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
the dredging is not affordable or affected some relief today that it | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
may happen but regret that it has not happened sooner. The pain, | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
sometimes it is too much. We have lived here a long time and we have | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
for me experience this last year and this year. I do not want to be there | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
again. Owen Paterson did not criticise the Environment Agency, | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
saying that the body had protected 1 million homes from flooding across | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
the UK this winter. But he said he did understand that this strength of | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
anger here on the Somerset Levels and he promised there would be | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
action. The Environment Agency said in a | :05:11. | :05:12. | |
statement this lunchtime that they had been working hard, | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
round-the-clock four weeks to try to prevent these problems and deal with | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
problems that have occurred. They point out that as far as dredging is | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
concerned, it is not a magic will it, not something that automatically | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
solves every problem. They say it has to be done continually and it is | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
very expensive. It might happen here but it is unclear whether it will | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
happen once or it will go on and on as people would like. The actor Jude | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
Law has told a jury that the media had "an unhealthy amount of | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
information" about his life and that packs of photographers would follow | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
him around even when he made secret arrangements for family events. | :05:48. | :05:49. | |
He was giving evidence at the phone hacking trial at the Old Bailey. Our | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
Political Correspondent Robin Brant is at court. | :05:53. | :06:02. | |
This time in the witness box lasted just one hour and 15 minutes, | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
Bierley the length of your average movie these days. Jude Law came to | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
court to see Andy Coulson in the dark. The man that the prosecution | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
says was in charge of the News of the World at the time when Jude Law | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
and his ex-wife, even a nanny, was targeted. And all for the benefits | :06:21. | :06:29. | |
of numerous stories in the tabloids. Just a warning, this report contains | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
flash photography. It was a rare moment when the Oscar-nominated | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
actor did not want to play to the cameras. Jude Law arrived at the Old | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
Bailey, the latest in the long line of hacking victims called to give | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
evidence. The prosecution says it was this man, former News of the | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
World editor Andy Coulson, who was in charge when the actor was | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
targeted. For well over a decade, he has been a tabloid favourite. His | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
field marriage to Sadie Frost, his relationship with Sienna Miller. The | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
jury has previously heard that all three were targeted by News of the | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
World investigator, Glenn Mulcaire. All sides in this trial agreed that | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
it happened but they disagree on who at the newspaper knew that it was | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
happening. No costume, or cameras. Jude Law sat in the witness box as | :07:13. | :07:19. | |
he asked -- and questions. For the first time in weeks, the courtroom | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
was full. For the five years between 2001 and 2006, he described how he | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
commuted from the US to the UK but under questioning, he said that he | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
did not read the stories about him in the paper. The only awareness | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
that eye had was that there seems to be an unhealthy amount of | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
information, that people had access to my life and whereabouts and where | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
I was going and to lie was worth. It fell to Andy Coulson's barrister to | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
introduce a hint of drama. As Timothy Langdale QC questioned the | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
actor, he passed him a piece of paper with a name on it. Were you | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
aware that this person, a member of your family, was selling information | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
to the News of the World? Only recently, Jude Law said, and not for | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
money. As the evidence came to close, the prosecutor asked him, as | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
far as you are concerned, did anything going to the News of the | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
World as a result of you putting it there, causing it to appear? | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
Andy Coulson's legal team tried to show that there were other ways that | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
information about Jude Law was getting out, not just acting. The | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
jury will have to decide. Andy Coulson denies all the charges | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
he faces as do the other six defendants in this trial. We are | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
into week 12 of the Old Bailey, probably only halfway through these | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
proceedings but the prosecution is approaching the end of its case. | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
Sometime in February, we are expecting the defence to start and | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
that will begin with Rebekah Brooks, formerly editor of the sun | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
and editor of the News of the World, formerly in charge of all of the | :08:53. | :08:54. | |
Rupert Murdoch's papers in this country before she quit. | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
The Prime Minister says he will save small businesses ?850 million a year | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
by cutting red tape. The Prime Minister says he'll save small | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
businesses hundreds of millions of pounds a year by cutting red tape. | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
David Cameron says he's already amended or scrapped 800 rules | :09:10. | :09:11. | |
affecting them. Among those being dropped are hundreds of pages of | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
guidance on the movement of cattle and rules on hedgerows. Separately, | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
Labour says it would create a new quango to support small companies in | :09:19. | :09:20. | |
their dealings with the government. Our business correspondent Emma | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
Simpson reports. Small firms are the lifeblood of our | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
economy. This one got a visit by the Prime Minister this morning. With | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
business shaping up as a big political battle ground, today David | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
Cameron wanted to show that the Conservatives were on their side. | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
This is going to be the first government in modern history that at | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
the end of its parliamentary term has less regulation and placed under | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
was at the beginning. We have now identified those 3000 regulations | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
that we are going to scrap and we have already got rid of them. What | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
are some of the unnecessary regulations that have been cut or | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
simple fight? Well, there is the 640 pages of guidance on the movement of | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
cattle. 286 pages of rules on hedgerows, and 380 pages of | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
regulations on waste management for golf courses. Plenty of politicians | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
have pledged to tackle red tape over the years, so what did small | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
businesses make of the Prime Minister's promise? In common with a | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
lot of politicians who try to deal with this issue, they have found it | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
is more difficult when they try to do it in practice. We have no | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
problem with red tape. We have found the government very supportive. If | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
you employ a company of less than five people and you have a deal with | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
all the employment legislation that goes with it and all of the | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
potential problems that you have got if you do not follow it, you are in | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
trouble. Labour were also keen to assert business credentials today | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
despite criticism of the 50p tax plan. If they win power, they will | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
set up a small business Administration inside government. We | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
need governments to be a better servant and customer of our small | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
businesses and to make sure that entrepreneurs' voices are heard at | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
the top table. With small businesses vital to the recovery, both parties | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
are pushing to pitch themselves as their champion. | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
Let's find out how well they are doing it with our chief Political | :11:33. | :11:39. | |
Correspondent, Norman Smith, in Westminster. The parties are really | :11:40. | :11:41. | |
asserting their business credentials. | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
And let me hearty back to Napoleon part, who famously described us as a | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
nation of shopkeepers. Although we may no longer be in the year of | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
carcasses and cannonballs, we are still a nation of small traders. -- | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
era. 90% of businesses are small businesses and 60% of us are | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
employed in small companies. What we learned today was that the battle | :12:05. | :12:06. | |
for the business vote is well and truly underway. It was ignited in | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
the weekend when Ed Balls suggested raising the top rate of tax to 50p, | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
printing a backlash from some of Britain's's top tycoons. Today, | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
Labour sought to present itself as on the side of ordinary businesses | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
by suggesting they would set up a small business Administration to | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
speak up for small businesses and reminding us that Ed Miliband would | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
break open the big banks so banks would lend more to small businesses. | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
The counteroffer from David Cameron is that he has cut 800 regulations | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
and is on course to cut 20,000. He has got rid of 80,000 pages of | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
environmental guidance. My sense, talking to businessmen, is that they | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
are instantly cautious about the blandishments of politicians. They | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
remember requires time talking about the bonfire of regulations and Tony | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
Blair chomping his way through the prawn cocktails of the city. In | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
spite such caution will not be in no doubt that the battle for the | :13:04. | :13:05. | |
business vote is well and truly underway. | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
The Syrian peace talks in Geneva are today focusing on the search for a | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
political solution to end the bitter civil war. Representatives of the | :13:14. | :13:15. | |
western-backed opponents of President Assad say they want to | :13:16. | :13:17. | |
talk about a transition from dictatorship to democracy. But | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
discussions are also expected to continue on aid convoys reaching the | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
besieged area of Homs. Our diplomatic correspondent Bridget | :13:28. | :13:35. | |
Kendall reports from Geneva. The heart of Syria's third biggest | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
city, now in ruins. But the problem in the old city of Homs is not just | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
physical devastation. Rebel held areas here have for months been cut | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
off by Syrian government forces. And activists say that for the old and | :13:52. | :13:53. | |
weak and vulnerable, the situation is critical. We have at least 3000 | :13:54. | :14:01. | |
or 4000 innocent civilians inside the city. It is so bad. After 600 | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
days in a row under siege, there is no food. In Geneva, it was back to | :14:09. | :14:15. | |
the negotiating table for the two sides in the peace talks. On the | :14:16. | :14:17. | |
agenda this morning, a future transitional government for Syria. | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
And exchanges between rival delegations have, it seems, been | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
quite calm possible. It also won everyone's lines, easing the Homs | :14:27. | :14:33. | |
siege and whether Damascus will give a green light for UN convoys. Not | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
yet, according to the Syrian opposition. The regime is saying | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
that it is going to allow the convoys. There are 12 trucks at | :14:41. | :14:47. | |
present waiting there for the regime to allow them in. But they are not | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
allowed yet. We will judge the regime but what it does, not by what | :14:53. | :15:01. | |
it says. From early on in this three-year conflict, Homs has been | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
bombarded. According to activists, it is still being shelled daily. | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
There have been efforts before to get blockades lifted to allow | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
humanitarian aid in. A process of negotiation with the Syrian | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
government has always been complex. And it is not clear whether the | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
talks in Geneva are helping or hindering. Yesterday, the Syrian | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
government announced women and children but not men were free to | :15:22. | :15:28. | |
leave the city. But it's convoys, -- it is convoys the US wants to see go | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
in, not an evacuation. Getting aid convoys into Homs was supposed to be | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
an easy thing for President Assad to say yes two, a test of his | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
co-operation. But if he does not agree and the political talks in | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
Geneva this morning have run into deadlock, well, then hopes of early | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
progress for the Syrian peace process may have been too ambitious. | :15:49. | :15:57. | |
Richard Campbell, BBC News, Geneva. With less than two weeks to the | :15:58. | :16:05. | |
winter Olympics, officials here are warning terrorist events are likely. | :16:06. | :16:14. | |
The slopes of Sochi are ready for the games. Russia's show piece venue | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
has been under preparation for years. But there is a problem. The | :16:20. | :16:26. | |
militant group that carried out this attack last month has vowed to | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
attack the games. A British assessment of the threat says | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
attacks in Russia during the games are hily likely. But attacking the | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
venue itself will not be easy. Sochi is at the western end of the | :16:41. | :16:47. | |
caucuses, Russia's most volatile area. The main threat is from a | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
group in Dagestan. But the Olympic venue has been under lock down for | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
weeks and is flooded with security staff and there will be drones in | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
the air and co-operation with America. The Olympic games | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
themselves are probably going to be well protected. The security forces | :17:07. | :17:13. | |
numbering in the 30,000s. So that is almost double what we saw in London | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
at the UK Olympics. However, there is security around the games | :17:20. | :17:26. | |
extending to a 65-mile perimeter. The groups intending to target it | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
are more lightly to target other hubs around Russia. Airports, | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
transport hubs. As we have seen before. Among those being sought by | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
the Russians is this woman, one of several suspected suicide bombers. | :17:41. | :17:49. | |
Dagestan, where the group is based has been racked by violence. But the | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
group is at war with Russia, not the west. And there is no suggestion | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
that British or other international teams will be targeted. With the | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
winter Olympics only days away, Russian officials have played down | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
talk of threats. They're promising the world a safe and secure games. | :18:08. | :18:18. | |
It is now 18 minutes past 1. Our top story this lunchtime: Anger and | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
criticism of the Government by those affected by the floods - the | :18:22. | :18:23. | |
Environment Secretary visits the South West and promises action. And | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
still to come: Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr play together at the | :18:27. | :18:29. | |
Grammy's - 50 years after they first performed in America. | :18:30. | :18:39. | |
Later on BBC London: Part demonstration and part experiment - | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
the new Royal Academy exhibition that insists on audience | :18:45. | :18:46. | |
participation. And the gym that helps you get fit by doing good - we | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
find out how it could be about to go nationwide. | :18:52. | :19:01. | |
Police say more than 140 men have come forward to claim they were | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
physically or sexually abused while being held at a young offenders | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
institution in County Durham in the 1970s and 80s. Medomsley closed more | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
than 20 years ago, but the scale of the abuse is only now becoming | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
apparent. A BBC investigation has tracked down some of the men who | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
were victims there. Our correspondent Danny Savage reports. | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
Medomsley detention centre in the 1980s. At the time, the Conservative | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
Government talked about a short, sharp shock for young law breakers. | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
These will be no holiday camps. And I sincerely hope that those who | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
attend them will not ever want to go back there. That translated into | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
lots of military-style physical activity. But in the village in the | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
hills of County Durham, there was also terrible physical and sexual | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
abuse of inmates. Much of it at the hands of a prison officer called | :20:02. | :20:08. | |
Neville Husband. He got ahold of me throat and pushed his body against | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
me and he was telling me that, you know, you will do it, because you | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
can just disappear. Nobody would care. You're just scum, you know? I | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
could feel myself losing consciousness and the next thing I | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
remember was him raping me. Ray was sent here for stealing biscuits. | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
Many of the other inmates were also in for relatively minor crimes. At | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
any time one around 70 young men were held here. But the detention | :20:35. | :20:42. | |
centre closed in the late 1980s, but by that time many lives had been | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
blighted by the brutality here. All efforts were made by the police to | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
make sure that I did not make a complaint, I was threatened with | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
re-arrest and to be sent back to Medomsley. I feel betrayed. I feel | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
let down. And I'm angry. Ten years ago prison officer Neville Husband | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
was jailed for abusing inmates. He would single out individuals and | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
keep them back at the end of their duties. He has since died. But that | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
wasn't the end of the police inquiry. It re-opened last year when | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
more allegations were made by former prisoners. 143 men have now come | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
forward to say they were physically or sexually abused at Medomsley | :21:22. | :21:28. | |
detention centre. We have seen a huge amount of people that have come | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
forward that have been physically assaulted. When they went to this | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
place they were faced with what was effectively a brutal regime. New | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
charges may now follow. 30 years on, the horror of what happened here is | :21:42. | :21:53. | |
yet to fully emerge. David Cameron says the numbers of Romanians and | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
Bulgarians since restrictions were lifted are at a reasonable level. | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
But he said he shared the frustration of Tory MPs who want | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
controls on migration extended. But he said there was nothing the | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
government could do. Our correspondent is in Westminster for | :22:13. | :22:19. | |
us. Before the restrictions working in the UK were lifted, there was | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
much speculation about how many would come. We didn't have a figure | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
then, we don't have a figure now. But David Cameron has given an | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
indication, based on anecdotal evidence. He said he thinks the | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
levels are reasonable. This is ahead of Thursday when the MPs will | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
discuss immigration. A number of Conservatives have said they want to | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
see the controls reinstated. David Cameron said that under EU laws he | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
has done what he can, but he said in his view that when new EU countries | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
join down the line there should be tougher controls. That is still some | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
way off. This is about David Cameron wanting with the European elections | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
looming to make sure he doesn't look weak on immigration, particularly in | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
front of his MPs, but more crucially in front of voters. Thank you. TV | :23:14. | :23:30. | |
chef Nigella Lawson will face no criminal charges after she told a | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
court that she had taken drugs. Scotland Yard said there were | :23:34. | :23:35. | |
serious public interest concerns about the message any prosecution | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
would send to potential witnesses. A specialist team concluded that no | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
further action would be taken. The jury in the trial of DJ Dave Lee | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
Travis has been hearing evidence from police interviews, in which he | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
said the stress caused by the allegations had made him cry at | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
night. The 68-year-old denies 13 charges dating back to 1976. Our | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
correspondent is at Southwark Crown Court with more. The jury heard that | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
in the interviews, Dave Lee Travis told police about the toll this | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
investigation was taking on his life. He said he had no means of | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
earning money. He said his wife had had breast cancer and he had to sell | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
his house to cover his legal fees. He said that he was ruined. Although | :24:19. | :24:25. | |
used a different word to that. The police heard from the last of the | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
women who says that he assaulted her. This was a journalist who went | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
to interview him in 2005 and she said he put his hand on her shoulder | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
and ran it down her back and repsed his hand -- rested his hand on her | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
bottom. She said I thought it was sleazy and inappropriate. She said | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
she fell embarrassed for himself and for him. Now Dave Lee Travis will be | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
going into the witness box this afternoon to begin the defence case. | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
He now will be answering his accusers and he is pleading not | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
guilty to all the charges. Thank you. Conservationists at Chester Zoo | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
have developed an unusual way to keep track of critically endangered | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
frogs - by making them glow. The researchers inject the tiny | :25:18. | :25:19. | |
creatures with harmless strips of fluorescent silicon and plan to use | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
the method to try to work out how to conserve them. Our science reporter | :25:24. | :25:36. | |
Victoria Gill has been to the zoo to watch the very delicate procedure | :25:37. | :25:51. | |
carried out. Stars of the music industry have been in Los Angeles, | :25:52. | :25:54. | |
for the biggest night in the music calendar - the Grammy Awards. The | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
two surviving members of The Beatles - Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr - | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
received a lifetime achievement award and played together, 50 years | :26:01. | :26:03. | |
after they first performed in America. But the night also turned | :26:04. | :26:06. | |
into the big day for 33 couples as Madonna led a mass wedding ceremony | :26:07. | :26:09. | |
in a celebration of gay marriage. Alastair Leithead was at the awards | :26:10. | :26:12. | |
ceremony in Los Angeles and his report contains flash photography. | :26:13. | :26:15. | |
Music royalty always make a big show of it at the Grammys. Pink in red. | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
Katie Perry in white. Dance music and country sharing the same red | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
carpet. It's the music industry's Oscars, their biggest night of year. | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
Yes, it is about awards, but it is also about putting on a great live | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
show with some of music's biggest names. And it was a great show. | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
Music's power couple - Beyonce and Jay-Z - singing together to open the | :26:33. | :26:39. | |
night. Then a show-stopper from Katie Perry - being burnt at the | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
stake! And Pink singing while performing a trapeze act with a bit | :26:46. | :26:52. | |
of audience participation. As for the prizes, it was the night of the | :26:53. | :26:59. | |
robots. Stevie Wonder sang with Daft Punk. The French duo won best pop | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
group, record of the year and album of the year. The robot would like to | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
thank. Speaking for them Pharrell Williams, who won four Grammies, | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
including best music producer. France is really proud. And it was | :27:14. | :27:22. | |
also an amazing night for Lord. The 17-year-old New Zealander won song | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
of the year for Royal and best performance. Then there was the | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
much-talked about reunion of Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. A | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
lifetime achievement award for the Beatles, 50 years after they first | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
played America. And best rock song for Sir Paul's Cut Me Some Slack. | :27:40. | :27:48. | |
The best newcomer was Macklemore and Lewis with the anthem of a huge | :27:49. | :27:51. | |
shift in American society over same sex marriage. We are gathered here | :27:52. | :27:58. | |
to celebrate... And a mass wedding to show Grammy support. Gay and | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
straight, old and young and who else would be the wedding singer, but | :28:04. | :28:21. | |
Madonna? Well another British star to be honoured for their lifetime's | :28:22. | :28:25. | |
work is Dame Helen Mirren - who's to be given the British Academy of Film | :28:26. | :28:28. | |
and Television Arts' highest award - the Bafta fellowship. Dame Helen's | :28:29. | :28:31. | |
career, which has included critically-acclaimed roles in Prime | :28:32. | :28:33. | |
Suspect and The Madness Of King George, has seen her win four | :28:34. | :28:38. | |
BAFTAs. BAFTA described her as one of the most outstanding actresses of | :28:39. | :28:45. | |
her generation. Time for a look at the weather, here's Susan Powell. We | :28:46. | :28:50. | |
have seen a lot of showers today, plenty more to come tonight and on | :28:51. | :28:56. | |
into tomorrow. And they're rattling in on a fair old wind. A deep area | :28:57. | :29:03. | |
of low pressure has been feeding the showers into us. This is the radar | :29:04. | :29:09. | |
image. If you look, you can make out the showers coming in in bands, so | :29:10. | :29:16. | |
some areas are not seeing much wet weather and other areas are picking | :29:17. | :29:22. | |
up a real soaking. The yellow triangle in eastern Scotland is | :29:23. | :29:25. | |
because we are concerned with showers this afternoon and into | :29:26. | :29:28. | |
tomorrow and Wednesday. There could be some issues with localised | :29:29. | :29:32. | |
flooding. There will be some decent sunny spells between the showers | :29:33. | :29:35. | |
today, particularly the further east you are. A lot of showers in the | :29:36. | :29:40. | |
south coast, getting driven inland on the wind and into western Wales. | :29:41. | :29:47. | |
The wind stays keen tonight and so more showers packing in. A soggy | :29:48. | :29:53. | |
story in many areas. But it will be a milder night. Still cold enough to | :29:54. | :29:58. | |
the north for the risk of icy stretches on roads in Scotland. | :29:59. | :30:05. | |
First thing tomorrow, more yellow triangles, still in eastern Scotland | :30:06. | :30:09. | |
concern and further south as the showers band across southern England | :30:10. | :30:13. | |
we could see some localised flooding. We have seen how | :30:14. | :30:16. | |
vulnerable the situation is in the Somerset levels. You can almost make | :30:17. | :30:21. | |
out the lines of showers. But they should be interspersed with | :30:22. | :30:27. | |
sunshine. If we leave the winds you can see how western Scotland is more | :30:28. | :30:34. | |
sheltered from the showers as they rattled across the British Isles. It | :30:35. | :30:39. | |
will take something to shift them and that is the low pressure sinking | :30:40. | :30:43. | |
south on Wednesday. Then the weather becomes quieter, but we start to | :30:44. | :30:48. | |
open the flood gates for air from the east and that is a cold | :30:49. | :30:52. | |
direction and Wednesday is chilly and with some rain on Thursday. More | :30:53. | :30:58. | |
cloud and maybe some snow in the east. But you will struggle to hide | :30:59. | :31:05. | |
from the easterly wind. This week, average temperatures blustery with | :31:06. | :31:12. | |
showers and from the middle of week turning colder. Now a reminder of | :31:13. | :31:18. | |
our top story this lunchtime: Criticism of the Government by those | :31:19. | :31:21. | |
affected by the floods. The Environment Secretary visits the | :31:22. | :31:28. | |
South West and promises action. That's all from us - now on BBC | :31:29. | :31:29. |