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about to set out his views. This morning after meeting Mark Carney, | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
Scotland's first minister Alex Salmond said the bank governor must | :00:16. | :00:22. | |
limit himself to the technicalities. He'll be giving a technocratic | :00:23. | :00:24. | |
assessment of the institutional arrangements necessary to make a | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
currency union work. He won't be advocating it or arguing against it | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
- that's a matter for the Scottish people. We're live in Edinburgh | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
where the Governor of the Bank of England is about to make his speech. | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
Also this lunchtime. A former News of the World reporter | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
tells the hacking trial he was caught in a conspiracy at News | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
International and had been "towing the company line". | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
The Prime Minister confirms dredging is to start on some of Somerset's | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
rivers as he calls an emergency meeting of Cobra to discuss the | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
flooding. Britain WILL open its doors to some | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
of the refugees fleeing the fighting in Syria - the Home Secretary says | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
it's a matter of the greatest urgency. | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
The British aid that is NOT helping these children because the money is | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
going to so called "ghost" schools. Someone somewhere is getting | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
Government funds for teachers and facilities but it's not being spent | :01:17. | :01:23. | |
here and no children are benefiting. Later on BBC London. | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
One in five workers set to benefit from new flexible travel cards to | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
suit part-time workers. And why the Government's accused of | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
discriminating against poor students as funding to 18-year-olds is cut. | :01:33. | :01:53. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. Scotland's First | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
Minister, Alex Salmond, has held his first private meeting with the | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney - to talk about | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
establishing a "sterling zone", should Scotland become independent. | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
Mr Salmond - who wants to keep the pound - said the Governor had agreed | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
to "technical discussions" on the issue, ahead of the independence | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
referendum in September. Let's go live to Edinburgh, and our Scotland | :02:18. | :02:27. | |
correspondent, Lorna Gordon. A private meeting this morning and | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
in just under 15 minutes, a public speech here at this hotel in the | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
centre of Edinburgh. Already there is an awful lot of interest in what | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
Mark Carney, the governor of the Bank of England, will have to say | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
about the pound, about the currency. My report contains flash | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
photography. The Governor of the Bank of England | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
in Edinburgh and entering the debate on whether an independent Scotland | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
can keep the pound. This Scottish Government aim was top of the | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
Scottish agenda when Mark Carney and Alex Salmond met earlier. | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
Scotland's first Minister believes the Governor's job is not to argue | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
or advocate but to advise. He will be providing a technocratic | :03:13. | :03:14. | |
assessment and I look forward to that. The issues we raise our once | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
we have anticipated in the fiscal commission and we can make an | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
independent Scotland work for the benefit of the Scottish people, and | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
we can have the institutional arrangements that can make keeping | :03:28. | :03:29. | |
the pound work for the Scottish people as well. Mr Carney is not a | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
politician but he is a key figure in the UK economy and when he speaks, | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
people listen. He warned of problems with currency unions, a particular | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
the eurozone. There are issues with respect to currency unions, we have | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
seen them in Europe. Those decisions are made between the relevant | :03:50. | :03:51. | |
parliaments and governments. We implement whatever decision is made. | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
The UK government believes if the political union were to end, the | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
currency union would struggle to survive, warning that a sterling | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
zone containing an independent Scotland would be highly challenging | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
and unlikely. People in Edinburgh like the idea of keeping the pound, | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
but accept there may be problems. I think Scotland should retain | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
sterling, it would be the easiest option, there will be enough change | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
going on. Keep the pound. It is what we are used to. We don't want to | :04:24. | :04:31. | |
change. Do want to get into the mess that is the Euro? Probably not. My | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
view would be to keep the pound. What happens in their pocket is | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
important to most voters but today's speech by Mark Carney would | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
shed more light on the economic debate taking place ahead of the | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
referendum. A couple of hundred people from all | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
walks of life have gathered at this hotel in Edinburgh to hear what Mark | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
Carney has two say. After he has given his speech, they will have the | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
chance to ask questions and then Mark Carney will open himself up to | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
questions from the media. There are a good number of TV crews and | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
journalists also interested in what he has to say. | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
A lot of key moments between now and the September referendum, how | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
important is this one? There have been a lot of position papers over | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
the last few months, from one side or the other, from the better | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
together campaign, or the yes campaign, or from the Westminster | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
campaign. By their nature they are partisan, they are arguing for yes | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
or no in the referendum. I think this is the first time we have had | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
an impartial figure and a very significant impartial figure, coming | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
out and giving a view. He is keen to underline that he is a technocrat, | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
he delivers what the voters and politicians decide, but nonetheless, | :05:55. | :06:03. | |
it is significant, what he has to say this afternoon. As to whether it | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
will make or break this campaign and help the voters decide, I think | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
ultimately it won't be that significant because there are eight | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
months to go still. Thank you very much. | :06:17. | :06:18. | |
And you can watch Mark Carney's speech live on the BBC News Channel | :06:19. | :06:20. | |
in just a few minutes' time. A News of the World reporter who's | :06:21. | :06:29. | |
admitted hacking during his time at the paper said he'd been caught in a | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
conspiracy at News International and was "towing the company line." Dan | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
Evans was being cross examined this morning about his claim that the | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
newspaper's former editor, Andy Coulson, knew about hacking at the | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
Sunday tabloid - a claim Mr Coulson denies. Our correspondent, Tom | :06:42. | :06:54. | |
Symonds, is at the Old Bailey. Dan Evans is the reporter who | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
pleaded guilty to phone hacking, but then he says came to realise he had | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
taken the wrong path in life, and effectively switched sides. He is | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
now giving evidence for the prosecution, chiefly against Andy | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
Coulson. The major police investigation that | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
led to this trial began in 2011. Police raiding the homes of News | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
International staff, looking for evidence of phone hacking. One of | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
those arrested was Dan Evans. He was questioned by detectives after a | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
phone company reported someone had tried to access the voice mail of | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
designer Kelly Copp one. Evans denied it was him as saying at one | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
point he had dialled the number by mistake because his phone had sticky | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
keys. It was a lie. Dan Evans told the baby, I was very frightened | :07:42. | :07:49. | |
man, I did not know what to do: But under cross-examination, he was | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
asked why he then changed his story, admitting his role in hacking | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
and offering to help the police with their inquiries in return for | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
immunity from prosecution. Timothy Laurence ail QC said: -- Timothy | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
Langdale to Dan Evans agreed, his evidence | :08:07. | :08:16. | |
including the claim that hacking was discussed at News of the World daily | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
editorial conferences. Evans admitted he did not attend this but | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
had been told by a colleague just after he had been to one. | :08:26. | :08:37. | |
He was accused of deliberately linking Andy Coulson with the | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
hacking of actor Daniel Craig's mobile phone, so he would be | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
implicated. The defence barrister said it wasn't true. Dan Evans said, | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
I didn't see you there at the time, it is true. Though Dan Evans wanted | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
immunity from prosecution, he was not given it. After he heard that, | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
he withdrew his support for the police investigation and he was | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
prosecuted. He pleaded guilty to two counts of phone hacking and two | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
other offences including perverting the course of justice. As for Andy | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
Coulson, he denies all involvement in phone hacking and the prosecution | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
case continues. It is likely to end towards the end of this week. | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
Thank you. Police have confirmed that the team | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
of British detectives has visited Portugal as part of investigations | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. The Metropolitian Police | :09:38. | :09:39. | |
says the team were in Pharoah as part of regular visits made in | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
connection with the enquiry -- were in Faro. | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
David Cameron has promised that dredging will begin in Somerset's | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
swollen rivers as soon as possible. Villages on the Somerset Levels have | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
faced weeks of flooding, with many blaming the state of the rivers | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
there for the situation. In a moment, we'll be hearing from our | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
correspondent in Wales, which has also been badly affected by this | :10:06. | :10:07. | |
month's storms. First, though, let's speak to our chief political | :10:08. | :10:09. | |
correspondent, Norman Smith. Norman, we hear that the emergency Cobra | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
committee is meeting this afternoon, David Cameron talking about it in | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
the Commons, you think the government has been slow to react to | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
the sense of outrage that is clearly felt in Somerset and other places? I | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
think we are seeing the ramifications, the backwash if you | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
like, from the very rough ride that Environment Secretary Owen Paterson | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
got on Monday when he went to Somerset. I surmised that people in | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
Downing Street were aghast at the fury of residents that clearly felt | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
they had been abandoned. As a consequence of which, we heard the | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
Prime Minister this lunchtime saying the current situation was not | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
acceptable and nothing was ruled out in terms of government support, | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
specifically not just that first Cobra meeting for several weeks, | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
which will begin this afternoon, but also providing more high-pressure | :11:02. | :11:03. | |
pumps to try to clear away the water. Dredging, despite the | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
environmental concerns, will begin as soon as the rain stops and the | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
water subsides, so the machines can actually get into the rivers. And I | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
am told they have not ruled out the possibility of using the military to | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
protect households and to help people who need to get to hospital | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
appointments and require other emergency treatment. Interesting, to | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
come in the Prime Minister spokesman was rather jokingly asked whether | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
the government would consider appointing a minister for rain. That | :11:36. | :11:42. | |
was swept to one side, but it is clear the Prime Minister himself | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
will take a much closer grip on the situation. He said in the Commons, I | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
will try to get this problem sorted. I think we can expect Mr Cameron | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
himself to take a much more direct role. Thank you very much. Let's | :11:57. | :12:04. | |
cross to Wales. A huge chunk of the Coast Porsche washed away -- of the | :12:05. | :12:13. | |
coast was washed away and it is flooded every day as the tide sweeps | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
in. Matthew Richards is there for us, quite a genetic operation that | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
has got underway, as I understand it. Speed is of the essence because | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
a high tide is expected this weekend and it will be considerably higher | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
than the type that caused problems at the beginning of January, | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
although we will not have the storm surge that also caused problems. | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
Natural resources Wales have roped in a helicopter which is bringing in | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
many dozens heavy sandbags filled with rocks may look true quarry -- | :12:48. | :12:56. | |
from a local quarry. We had around five homes that were affected, it is | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
quite a rural area, people were trapped up to their waist by water | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
and had to be rescued by members of the lifeboat crew. About 1000 acres | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
of land was affected by flood water. Anxious people are keeping an eye on | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
the weather and the tide, but hopefully the work going on behind | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
me will give them some peace of mind. Thank you very much. | :13:20. | :13:27. | |
Some refugees fleeing the civil war in Syria are to be allowed into | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
Britain. The Government says it expects several hundred to come | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
here, but says it won't be signing up to a United Nations quota on how | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
many to take in. Here's our political correspondent, Ross | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
Hawkins. Driven from their homes by war, | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
Syrian refugees left waiting in camps, and now some will begin in | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
sanctuary in Britain. We will be coming forward with a scheme to help | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
the most needy people in those refugee camps, and offer them a home | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
in our country. We want to make sure we particularly help those who have | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
been victims of sexual violence. There is no debate about the scale | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
of this problem. More than 2 million Syrians have fled the country. The | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
High Commissioner for Refugees wants to resettle 30,000 of the most | :14:16. | :14:18. | |
vulnerable this year. Britain would take part in the UN programme but | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
will now accept hundreds of people, although ministers won't say exactly | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
how many. The government is committed to giving ?600 million | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
worth of humanitarian aid, more than any other country apart from the | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
US. Labour say they have persuaded ministers to take refugees as well, | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
and they want action. Now the decision has apparently been taken, | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
will he reassure the house he will act with the utmost emergency, | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
because we are talking about the most honourable people in refugee | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
camps who need help now -- most vulnerable people. British party | :14:52. | :14:58. | |
politics mean nothing in these camps, of course. It is the decision | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
that matters. The important thing is the principle that we are going to | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
resettle a significant number of vulnerable refugees from the refugee | :15:09. | :15:17. | |
camps in the countries neighbouring Syria, it is the right thing to do. | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
In Geneva today, more talks but no breakthrough as the opposing sides | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
meet. Plenty of Western countries are taking refuge is now at the UN | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
still needs them to do more. Minister is no they can protect some | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
individuals. They don't pretend that today's announcement can begin to | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
address the much wider problems faced by millions of refugees. The | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
man widely credited with turning around the fortunes of Sainsbury's | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
is leaving the company after ten years in charge. The supermarket | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
chainsaw nearly a decade of consecutive growth in sales. | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
In the battle for our weekly shopping budget, one supermarket has | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
seen its sales rise every year for almost a decade. But the man who has | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
presided over Sainsbury's success is saying goodbye. Great leaders - and | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
I hope the history will judge me as one - should leave something in the | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
tank. The business should go on to ever-greater strengths and you | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
should be pleased in that. I hope to be looking from the outside in in | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
years to come proud of what the business is still achieving. He | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
addressed Sainsbury's staff this morning with the commercial director | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
at his side. He is taking over as CEO. King will be a tough act to | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
follow. In his decade as Chief Executive, he has seen Sainsbury's | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
generate ten million new customers a week, with sales up by ?9.5 billion, | :16:42. | :16:51. | |
Sainsbury's has a 17% share of the market, second to Tesco. These are | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
some of the most obvious monuments to Justin King's leadership. He | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
decided to rebrand many of the convenient stores to Sainsbury's | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
Locals and they have become one of the most successful parts of the | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
Sainsbury's empire. Discount supermarkets like Aldi are putting | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
pressure on the Big Four chains. Sainsbury's has had to cut its | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
profit forecast and much depends on how the new Chief Executive decides | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
to respond to the challenge. We have seen over and over again that the | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
quality of the guy at the top of a big retailer like this, it is | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
critical. It's such a demanding job to have the drive and the vision, | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
the charisma. In the end, it is all about-turnover. There are plenty of | :17:34. | :17:36. | |
shoppers coming through the doors, but with King heading for the exit, | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
the question will be asked - what is next for Sainsbury's? | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
Our top story this lunchtime: Scotland's First Minister holds | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
talks with the governor of the Bank of England over how an independent | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
Scotland could keep the pound as its currency. | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
And still to come: Rising from the Ashes - England's women show the men | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
how it's done - finally beating the Aussies Down Under. | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
Later on BBC London: Home to the most dangerous and disturbed | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
patients. A unique look inside Broadmoor hospital ahead of its move | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
to new premises. And an unusual role for Sir Derek | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
Jacobi - as he's sculpted live in front of an audience. | :18:18. | :18:26. | |
The world is facing a global education crisis according to the | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
United Nations. It says a quarter of a billion children don't have basic | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
skills in numeracy or literacy. In Pakistan, one of the problems is | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
corruption. Money - some of it from the UK - is being poured into the | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
country to pay for schools - some of which simply don't exist. From Sindh | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
Province in Pakistan, Aleem Maqbool reports. | :18:49. | :18:59. | |
Coming to the end of a hard day's work. He should be at primary | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
school. Instead, he and his friends have been up since dawn harvesting | :19:03. | :19:14. | |
sugar cane and carrying it to store. He isn't shore how old he is and | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
from what he told us, he barely understands the concept of what a | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
school is. He's not the only one. It appeared that farming around here | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
was being done entirely by young children. Every one of them said | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
they knew no-one who is getting an education. This boy did at least | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
know what a school was. TRANSLATION: It's my dream to go to | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
school. Since there isn't one in this area, I'll never be able to. | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
In a province which has been given huge sums of foreign aid for | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
education, including tens of millions of pounds from the British | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
Government, why are so many children missing out on schooling? Here is | :19:56. | :20:03. | |
one reason. This is the government girls primary school. Or it would be | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
if it wasn't for corruption. This is what's known around here as a ghost | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
school. Someone somewhere is getting government funds for teachers and | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
for facilities, but it is not being spent here and no children are | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
benefitting. This is just one such ghost school among 22 in this small | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
area alone. One which unsurprisingly has one of the lowest literacy rates | :20:29. | :20:36. | |
in all of Pakistan. I know there are certain lapses, | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
certain lapses on the part of the officials, certain lapses on the | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
part of the teachers. The monitoring has to be improved. Many have had | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
enough of the promises. This teacher has set up class under a tree | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
offering free lessons. He's decided that to do what is right and avoid | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
corruption, the only way is to bypass the government completely. | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
There aren't nearly enough people like him to help the millions of | :21:05. | :21:13. | |
Pakistani children who are in need. Aleem Maqbool, BBC News, in Sindh. | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
The trial of the actor Bill Roache for rape and indecent assault has | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
been hearing about security at the Granada Studios where Coronation | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
Street was recorded - and where some of the incidents are alleged to have | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
taken place. Anne Kirkbride described Roache as always being a | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
perfect gentleman. The 81-year-old denies all the charges. Let's speak | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
to our correspondent, Judith Moritz, who's been listening to the | :21:37. | :21:38. | |
morning's evidence at Preston Crown Court. What struck you as the most | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
interesting of the evidence that you heard? Well, I suppose it was a bit | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
of showbusiness during a trial which is now into its third week, Jon. | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
William Roache arrived having spoken out in his defence yesterday. Today, | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
he was back in the dock and so it was his turn to sit and watch as | :21:57. | :22:03. | |
members of the Coronation Street cast came here today to give | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
evidence in support. The first person was the actress Anne | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
Kirkbride. She came into the courtroom, the first thing she was | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
asked after her personal details was whether she had known William Roache | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
for a long time. At that point she looked across to the dock where | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
William Roache was sitting, the two smiled at each other and she said, | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
"Absolutely." She was asked various questions about her co-star's | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
character. She was asked, "If you had to choose one word to describe | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
William Roache, what would it be?" She said, "Lovely." Then she went on | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
to describe him as the perfect gentleman. She said, "He always | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
behaved impeccably, perfectly." And then just after her, we heard from | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
Chris Gascoyne, who plays Peter Barlow. He said it was a joy to be | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
with Bill and he sets the precedent for everyone. He is decent and kind | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
to everybody. William Roache denies two charges of rape and four charges | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
of indecent assault. The trial will continue this afternoon. Judith, | :23:04. | :23:10. | |
thank you very much. The coroner at the inquest of a Red | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
Arrows' pilot has been hearing that the firing handle of his ejector | :23:15. | :23:17. | |
seat was in the wrong position and it hadn't been spotted. The Coroner | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
has spent the morning delivering his verdict into the death of Flight | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
Lieutenant Sean Cunningham, who died when his seat fired and his | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
parachute didn't deploy in time to save him. Danny Savage has been at | :23:27. | :23:33. | |
the Coroner's Court in Lincoln. One word kept cropping up - that | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
word was failure. Failure by the Ministry of Defence to spot that | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
that ejection handle was in the wrong position, failure by the RAF, | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
who knew that could happen and failure by the company who made the | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
ejection seat who knew that a single nut and bolt could stop the | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
parachute from his ejection seat deploying properly. All failures | :23:55. | :24:02. | |
that have left a family grieving. Flight Lieutenant Sean Cunningham, | :24:03. | :24:04. | |
an RAF pilot who was at the peak of his career. It was a career and life | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
cut short by a chain of events which should never have happened. He was | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
preparing to take off for a formation flight with his colleagues | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
from the Red Arrows. Famous the world over for their spectacular | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
stunts, flying just a few feet apart. But Red Five, which was | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
Flight Lieutenant Sean Cunningham's call sign, never got his plane off | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
the ground that day. He was ejected from his Hawk jet as he made his | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
pre-flight checks. His inquest was shown this ejector seat. The | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
ejection handle to be pulled in an emergency wasn't locked in place | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
properly. The Coroner today said a range of MoD personnel failed to | :24:46. | :24:52. | |
spot the problem on 19 separate occasions. Being ejected shouldn't | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
have proved fatal, but the parachute on his seat didn't open. The | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
34-year-old plummeted from 220 feet and died of multiple injuries. | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
Martin Baker, the company who make the seats for the Red Arrows, were | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
today criticised for poor communication because they knew | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
about a potential problem with the parachute in the seats. A problem | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
they told some air forces about, but not the RAF. | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
In the last few minutes, Flight Lieutenant Sean Cunningham's father | :25:25. | :25:26. | |
has come out to give his statement from the family. He just describes | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
his son's death as "pointless and avoidable" and he was very emotional | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
as he gave that statement. The real human cost of what happened that day | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
in November 2011. Danny, thank you very much. | :25:42. | :25:53. | |
You may have heard of them at universities, theatres and | :25:54. | :25:55. | |
cathedrals. Well now, you can find an artist-in-residence on a bus. | :25:56. | :25:58. | |
Denise Poote sketches images as she travels around Bournemouth. There's | :25:59. | :26:00. | |
only one slight drawback to the job. She suffers from travel sickness! So | :26:01. | :26:03. | |
how does she do it? Our correspondent, Duncan Kennedy, has | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
been to find out. Canvas? Check. Drawing implements? Check. Coat? | :26:09. | :26:16. | |
Check. Bus? Check again! Denise Poote is the artist-in-residence on | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
a double-decker bus. She's been appointed by Bournemouth Council to | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
make art on the move. It's creating whilst commuting. Over the course of | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
a journey, I collect a series of marks that represent my experience | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
of that journey. She works in pencil. The only oils here are the | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
ones in the engine! But there's one drawback as she draws - she suffers | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
from motion sickness so can't look down as she writes. It is not a | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
problem. I'm just making marks and recording the journey that I'm | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
seeing at the window. She says her artistic brush with a bus has | :26:58. | :27:05. | |
produced this, Route 33, and this - Route 1C and how about Route 19. | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
They are not squiggles, but a fusion of art and maps. This is one of her | :27:10. | :27:16. | |
finished pieces of work. Where else to test it out - among the bus | :27:17. | :27:23. | |
passengers themselves. I like it. Very impressive. You can see | :27:24. | :27:25. | |
movement in the picture. Interesting. | :27:26. | :27:28. | |
REPORTER: Can you understand it? No! REPORTER: What do you think? It is a | :27:29. | :27:36. | |
brain-teaser. You might call this Denise's Yellow Period. The bus | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
company are tickled pink with what she has done so far. We are about | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
how simply you can fit buses into your life. If we can make it easier | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
for local artists, how good is that? She has a few more routes to | :27:49. | :27:51. | |
chronicle before her drawings are put on display. She is hoping people | :27:52. | :27:54. | |
will see this as artwork that doesn't look like the back end of a | :27:55. | :28:00. | |
bus! Duncan Kennedy, BBC News, in Bournemouth. | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
Well, England's women have managed to do what the men couldn't. They've | :28:05. | :28:07. | |
retained the Ashes by winning their latest match Down Under and giving | :28:08. | :28:10. | |
them an unbeatable lead in the multi-format series. England's | :28:11. | :28:12. | |
captain, Charlotte Edwards, hit the winning runs and said the victory | :28:13. | :28:22. | |
"meant everything". Time for a look at the weather. | :28:23. | :28:24. | |
Here's Susan Powell. I think it is going to come as a | :28:25. | :28:31. | |
shock to many of us that we are going to have something more in the | :28:32. | :28:34. | |
way of proper cold through this afternoon and for tomorrow. It is | :28:35. | :28:37. | |
really only a short snap of cold weather. Milder conditions are | :28:38. | :28:41. | |
likely to be back with us through Friday. The reason it is turning | :28:42. | :28:44. | |
colder - the wind cutting across us from the east. That will strengthen | :28:45. | :28:48. | |
through this afternoon bringing in cold air from the Continent. There | :28:49. | :28:51. | |
should be some sunshine this afternoon for western Scotland. | :28:52. | :28:54. | |
Eastern areas will continue with some showers, although they should | :28:55. | :28:58. | |
thin out as the hour goes by. Still some showers to come for Northern | :28:59. | :29:01. | |
Ireland as well. As we head further south, we are still talking about | :29:02. | :29:06. | |
rain, but the colder air could mean if you are out about, don't be | :29:07. | :29:11. | |
surprised if you see a bit of sleet or snow for a time. Certainly, that | :29:12. | :29:18. | |
colder air will start to make itself felt. The bigger problem could | :29:19. | :29:23. | |
possibly be as though showers clear away south overnight tonight and | :29:24. | :29:29. | |
temperatures fall, particularly across Scotland and Northern Ireland | :29:30. | :29:33. | |
and Wales. Further south, more in the way of cloud. Still some | :29:34. | :29:36. | |
outbreaks of rain around. We should be largely frost-free. In rural | :29:37. | :29:40. | |
areas, temperatures will dip away further. Then we go on into | :29:41. | :29:45. | |
Thursday. It promises to be a pretty cold day. We have still got that raw | :29:46. | :29:49. | |
wind coming across from the east. There is quite a lot of cloud | :29:50. | :29:52. | |
around. Still some rain and sleet mixed in with it as well. Northern | :29:53. | :29:57. | |
Ireland will struggle to see much brightness through the day, | :29:58. | :30:01. | |
particularly through the afternoon. Western Scotland, Northern England, | :30:02. | :30:05. | |
Wales will be in line for some of the best of the brightness. Lower | :30:06. | :30:09. | |
temperatures than we have been used to. It will feel cold. Here is | :30:10. | :30:14. | |
Friday. Low pressure winding up from the Atlantic. We are back to a | :30:15. | :30:20. | |
westerly air feed. Temperatures will come shooting up. The rain will | :30:21. | :30:24. | |
compiling in. It will be a chilly start for eastern areas. The | :30:25. | :30:31. | |
problem, though, will be the rain and particularly for the South West. | :30:32. | :30:37. | |
We could be talking about 25 millimetres through Friday. | :30:38. | :30:41. | |
Potentially, some problems with flooding this weekend as well. In | :30:42. | :30:45. | |
this case, it will be because of strengthening winds and spring tide. | :30:46. | :30:49. | |
For the weekend, it is looking miserable again. A lot of showers | :30:50. | :30:55. | |
around. A full outlook is on bbc.co.uk/weather. | :30:56. | :31:01. | |
Susan, thank you. A reminder of our top story: Scotland's First Minister | :31:02. | :31:05. | |
has held talks with the Governor of the Bank of England over how an | :31:06. | :31:09. | |
independent Scotland could keep the pound as its currency. | :31:10. | :31:13. | |
That's all from us. Now on BBC One | :31:14. | :31:14. |