28/01/2014 BBC News at One


28/01/2014

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the financial crash. The Chancellor says it shows his

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plan for the economy is working - Labour says it's long overdue. We'll

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be assessing exactly what these figures mean.

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Also this lunchtime: The trial of ex-News of the World editor Andy

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Coulson hears that he was played a recording of a hacked voice mail

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left by actress Sienna Miller for Daniel Craig.

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The Coronation Street actor William Roache tells a court he didn't know

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any of his alleged victims and didn't recall ever being in their

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company. Earn more and spend less - the

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message from the Public Accounts Committee to the Royal household.

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American singer, songwriter and activist Pete Seeger dies at the age

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of 94. ?40 for a full day 's work - the

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employers short-changing the capital's migrants. And crossing

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roads in the eyes of the blind. Good afternoon and welcome to the

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BBC News At One. The British economy grew by 1.9% in

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2013, according to figures released today by the Office for National

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Statistics. They are the strongest growth figures since 2007, the year

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before the banking crisis, which threw much of the world into

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recession. The Chancellor George Osborne says the numbers are further

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evidence that the government's long-term economic plan is working.

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The shadow Chancellor, Ed Balls, also welcomed today's growth

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figures, but added they were 'long overdue after three damaging years

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of flatlining'. Here's our chief economic correspondent, Hugh Pym.

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It's a snapshot of all the main areas of the economy, adding up the

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value of goods and services to provide a figure called GDP. In the

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final three months of last year, there was solid growth again. The

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latest chapter of the economic story is well illustrated at this

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packaging manufacturer in Northamptonshire. Last year, it was

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confident enough to invest in a major warehouse expansion. New jobs

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have been created. The boss told me his success reflected growth in the

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wider economy. Packaging is a barometer. We deal with a large

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cross-section of different companies from engineering, retailers to

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manufacturing. In the past 18 to 24 months, things have picked up. The

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dominant service sector saw growth of 0.8% in the last quarter.

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Construction went the other way, down 0.3%. Manufacturing saw healthy

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growth of 0.9%. The latest figures were hailed by the Chancellor in the

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Commons. These numbers are a boost for the economic security of

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hard-working people. Growth is broadly based, with manufacturing

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growing fastest of all. More evidence are long-term economic plan

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is working, but the job is not done. But Labour argued the growth picture

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was not all rosy and the economy was not yet secure. Construction output

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is still down and business investment isn't coming back. We

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need a plan to get the investment they need and the recovery which

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works the people in our country. The economy is growing and jobs are

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being created, but many in work are still feeling a squeeze because pay

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rises are rising well behind cost of living increases. Most economists

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expect that to change over the next year or so, but right now, some may

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feel the economy has not yet arrived. People we spoke to in Corby

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had mixed views. Wages haven't gone up like everything else has gone up.

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I do sense things are getting better. Shops are getting busier

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now. The economy may not be firing on all cylinders yet, but UK growth

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was among the fastest of the leading economies in Europe last year. It

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looks to be the same in 2014 according to most forecasters.

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On the face of it, good news. How good? Well, on the one hand, growth

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was a tiny bit slower in the fourth quarter of last year, although

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perfectly respectable. Overall output is still below where I was

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before the recession in 20 -- in 2008. And there is a big disparity

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in different sectors. Manufacturing and construction are still well

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below the previous peak. Vince Cable and others are saying the economy

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has not properly rebalanced. On the other hand, the Chancellor and

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others will say, hang on, this performance last year was the first

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unbroken run of growth since 2007, among the best of the leading

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industrialised economies. We were upgraded by the IMF last week,

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putting Britain among the best performers this year. Jobs are being

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created, there is not a lot wrong. Let's speak to our chief political

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correspondent Norman Smith who's at Westminster. We heard those people

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in Corby saying they feel the recovery has not yet got to them. I

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presume that is the key for the politics of this, when people start

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feeling the economy is working in their failure.

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I think that is true, but there is no doubt Labour is having to pretty

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much swim against the economic tide with a steady flow of better figures

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on inflation, unemployment and down growth. One poll of the night

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reported their lead against the Tories had shrunk to a tiny 1%. This

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is far from game over on the economy though. Why? Because people do not

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feel better off yet, despite the recovery. And the main feel better

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off by the time of the next election. The coalition also still

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have to spend -- sells sweeping spending cuts. And there is a

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niggling fear in government circles boys by Vince Cable that this is a

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recovery fuelled by Roald bad habits of consumer debt and red-hot

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property prices, which means despite Labour 's difficulties, it is too

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early for ministers to think it is game over on the economy.

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Thank you. If you want to read more and today's figures, there is a full

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interactive guide on our website. A court's heard that a former News

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of the World reporter played a recording of a hacked voice mail -

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left by actress Sienna Miller for Daniel Craig - to his editor, Andy

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Coulson. Dan Evans - a witness for the prosecution who's already

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pleaded guilty to hacking - told the court Mr Coulson described the tape

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as "brilliant". Mr Coulson denies hacking charges. Our home affairs

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correspondent is at the Old Bailey. Yes, this long trial has often been

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quite technical, the prosecution relying on documents, transcripts

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and timelines. But this week, the jury has heard from Jude Law and

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today again from a man who said he was at the heart of the News of the

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World phone hacking operation. Dan Evans was recruited to the News of

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the World for his phone hacking skills, he says. He told the jury in

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2005 he tried to investigate rumours the actor Sienna Miller was cheating

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on her then partner Jude Law. On the phone of another actor comic Daniel

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Craig, he said he found a message saying, I love you, from sienna

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Miller. He said the journalists began to mobilise to flesh out the

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story. Andy Coulson came over and listen to the tape. He said, good

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work. Andy Coulson said it was brilliant, while another executive

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held my elbow and said, you are a company man now. Andy wanted to

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preserve the tape but not the original recording.

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The story was eventually published. Evans told the jury, for the record,

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I would like to apologise to them all for infringing their privacy. He

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told the jury he felt terrorised by one manager

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