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300 staff to rebuild the track at Dawlish in Devon, where a section of | :00:14. | :00:24. | |
sea wall had collapsed. The prime minister has just told rail workers | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
here that they have completed a Herculean task, but what is the | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
long-term future of this route? Also this lunchtime: A new phase in | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
the search for the missing Malaysian airliner - underwater locators are | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
used to try to track signals from the plane's black box. | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
More violence in Afghanistan ahead of this weekend's election, as two | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
veteran journalists are shot - one is killed, the other injured. | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
Sweeping changes to the way bailiffs collect debt are due to come into | :00:50. | :00:57. | |
force. And 18 months after the end of the | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
London 2012 games, the Olympic Park is set to reopen to the public. | :01:01. | :01:09. | |
Later on BBC London: As the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park opens, what | :01:10. | :01:11. | |
difference will it make to Stratford? | :01:12. | :01:12. | |
And government inspectors ARE appointed to examine fraud claims at | :01:13. | :01:14. | |
Tower Hamlets council. Good afternoon and welcome to the | :01:15. | :01:39. | |
BBC News at One. This was the scene back in February, when winter storms | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
destroyed the main railway line to the south-west of England at Dawlish | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
in Devon. But eight weeks and ?35 million later, the line has | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
reopened, thanks to a team of 300 workers who've been working | :01:52. | :01:53. | |
round-the-clock to get the work done. And this time, engineers say | :01:54. | :02:01. | |
it should last for around 200 years. Well, our correspondent, Jon Kay, | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
was on the first train to pass through Dawlish, and we can join him | :02:05. | :02:12. | |
now. It is not often that you film at a | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
railway station and all you see are smiling faces and all you hear are | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
positive comments from passengers, but that is what it has been like | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
here today, such is the level of relief and gratitude that this line | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
has reopened. As you say, it has only taken eight weeks to do a | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
massive construction job, but for people affected by this line being | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
closed, it has been a long eight weeks. | :02:36. | :02:43. | |
The 5.34 from Exeter to Dawlish this morning, the first train to travel | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
this route in two months. Not many passengers, but for bleary eyed | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
commuters, it is still a big day. It is great for tourism. It is a scenic | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
stretch of line, and it is important the business, both for Exeter, the | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
south-west, Devon and Cornwall. I know you have the roads and other | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
forms of transport, but the railway is the main link. You will not see | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
much this morning. Not at the moment. We slow down and go past the | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
section that collapsed, now rebuilt and reopen. Hard to believe this was | :03:15. | :03:22. | |
how it looked eight weeks ago. The main line in and out of the West | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
Country was hanging in midair. Since then, hundreds of engineers have | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
worked around the clock, often in terrible conditions, filling the gap | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
with thousands of tonnes of concrete and reinforcing the embankment. It | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
is only when you look at the Victorian sea wall that you realise | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
exactly what has happened here. There is a section which is modern, | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
made of new materials. This is the bit that gave way and fell apart. | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
But it has been bolstered, and they say it is now stronger than when | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
Brunel built it in the 1800 's. From the other side, you can see the | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
shipping containers filled with rocks that have been used to protect | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
the site from the tide. How much of a challenge has it been to get to | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
this stage? It has been commended challenge. We have had landslips and | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
650 metres of track to replace. But we are proud of the achievements of | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
the whole industry. For a region that relies on visitors, the | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
reopened railway sends out an important message, especially coming | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
just before the crucial Easter holiday season. We are back on the | :04:31. | :04:38. | |
map. We are back in business. That is what is really important to us. | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
Fantastic! Very happy. Among the first passengers to arrive, the | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
prime minister. He came to say thank you to the engineers known here as | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
the Orange army. It has been a Herculean effort. 56 days and 56 | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
nights, 10,000 tonnes of concrete, 150 tonnes of deal, a huge task | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
carried out not only on time, but before time, so thank you for that. | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
There are still questions about the long-term viability of this line, | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
but today, they are only thinking about the job done. One idea is | :05:15. | :05:22. | |
whether it is time to move this line inland, to a space where it might be | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
safer for the future if coastal erosion continues to be a problem. | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
The man who runs the Eden Project told the BBC today that he think | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
some of the money being put aside for HS2 for other parts of Britain | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
should be spent on updating the infrastructure in the south-west. So | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
job done for now, but the future is yet to be sorted. Search teams have | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
begun using underwater locators to hunt for the black box of Malaysia | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
Airlines flight MH370. It's a race against time, as the batteries which | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
send out a signal are due to run out any day. The plane, which | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
disappeared on March eighth, is believed to have crashed in the | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
southern Indian Ocean with 239 people on board. In a moment, we'll | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
get the latest from Perth in Western Australia, from where the search is | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
being co-ordinated. But first, here's our transport correspondent, | :06:14. | :06:22. | |
Richard Westcott. After a fruitless month looking for | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
the missing plane, searchers have begun listening for it, too. Beneath | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
the waves, two ships are using special kit to try to hear distress | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
signals from the plane's black boxes, but they have got their work | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
cut out. The sea bed in that part of the world is like an underwater | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
alps, 4.5km deep and with 2.5 kilometre-high mountains. That is | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
the kind of terrain that hides its secrets. And this is what | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
investigators are after, the black boxes that solve this puzzle. They | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
will tell us what the aircraft was doing and what the crew were saying | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
on board. But how to find them? Well, this piece of American kit, | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
shaped like a stingray, will lead the search. It is called a TOAD | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
pinger locator, but think of it as an underwater microphone, tuned to | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
hear signals from the black box locator beacons. A Royal Navy | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
nuclear submarine is also combing the area, listening for the same | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
tell-tale pings. They might get lucky, but it is a long shot. The | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
pinger batteries run out in a few days, and they will be listening | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
across an area the size of Britain. There is other high-tech kit on | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
stand-by as well. This underwater vehicle swims up and down, mapping | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
the sea bed, but they will not start using it until they find a piece of | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
the actual plane. So they have got the best tools available to find | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
this airliner, but that does not mean it will work. They had the same | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
state-of-the-art technology five years ago to find the black boxes | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
from a French airliner that had crashed into the Atlantic. For a | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
month, they trawled the area, listening for signals, without | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
realising they even went over the wreckage. Yet they heard nothing. | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
The company that eventually helped find that plane told me why. In | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
hindsight after the wreckage was discovered, it was revealed that | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
both pingers had failed. So it was similar to the situation we face now | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
with flight MH370. We have no information on where the wreckage | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
could be on the ocean bottom. And in this case, it is an area 20 times | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
the size of the area we were dealing with with the Air France flight. So | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
the search enters a new phase, but the reality is, if they don't find a | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
clue soon, they may never find the aircraft. Richard Westcott, BBC | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
News. Our World Affairs Correspondent Jon Donnison is in | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
Perth now. Jon, what hope of this latest search providing results in | :08:50. | :08:57. | |
what is now a race against time? Well, they are not giving up, but I | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
don't think there is much hope. We spent the day on a US search plane, | :09:02. | :09:08. | |
the P8 Poseidon. It is as sophisticated as it gets in terms of | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
search technology. We were in the air for about eight hours, two hours | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
over the search zone. We covered around 10,000 square miles, and in | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
the words of the pilot, we saw absolutely nothing but ocean. We | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
were skimming over the ocean at about 1000 feet, peering out of the | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
windows. Much of the search was being done with the naked eye, and | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
it requires a lot of concentration. It is tedious and exhausting work. | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
There have now been more than 100 search flights, and there has been | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
no breakthrough whatsoever. There is obviously a huge human cost to the | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
families and also a financial one. One expert told us the eventual | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
search operation, if the plane is recovered, could cost as much as | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
$500 million. There's been more violence in the | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
run-up to this weekend's presidential election in | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
Afghanistan. A photographer has been killed and a reporter injured after | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
a police officer opened fire on their car. Let's speak to our | :10:06. | :10:13. | |
correspondent in Kabul, David Loyn. David, this is the latest in a | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
number of killings ahead of the elections. What happened? It was an | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
apparently unprovoked attack on the two journalists by a police officer. | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
They were in a convoy going towards polling stations to watch | :10:28. | :10:29. | |
preparations for tomorrow's election. A police officer came up | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
to their vehicle and shot the two, Cathy Gannon, a highly experienced | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
journalist, who lived and worked in this region of 30 years and has | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
written books about Pakistan and Afghanistan. She was shot and | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
injured. We understand she is in a stable is issued and is now in a US | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
hospital. But her colic, Anja Niedringhaus, a well-known | :10:52. | :10:53. | |
photojournalist, was shot in the head and died instantly. She was one | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
of the nicest people on the road and a very good photographer. She | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
covered conflict all the way back to Bosnia through Iraq and Libya and so | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
on. She was also a good sports photographer. There was no war that | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
could stop her going to Wimbledon. This terrible news has shocked the | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
press community. Both of them were very well-known. I knew them both | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
myself. It reminds us of the potential violence around this | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
election over the weekend. There are some 400,000 Afghan and | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
international troops protecting the election process, the largest | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
military operation in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban. Going | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
out this morning in Kabul, we were stopped frequently at police | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
checkpoints, and all gates to the city are closed down as this huge | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
security presence tries to protect this very important aquatic moment | :11:46. | :11:54. | |
for Afghanistan. New rules come into force this weekend which will | :11:55. | :11:56. | |
radically change the way bailiffs can collect debts. It means they'll | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
no longer be able to enter homes at night or use physical force against | :12:02. | :12:03. | |
debtors, or take away essential household items. Here's our legal | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
affairs correspondent, Clive Coleman. | :12:08. | :12:15. | |
It is painful looking at the money I have paid. After she sold her camper | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
van, the new owner got a congestion charge fine and two parking tickets. | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
Despite being able to show but the charges occurred after she had sold | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
the van, the bailiffs pursued her. That was when I knew I was in | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
trouble here. All the evidence they had first requested, they then | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
dismissed, and three times, they said they had not received it | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
through the post, so I started recording delivery, again expense I | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
don't have. It is that kind of had practised that the government wants | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
to stamp out. The new law will ban the use of force against debtors, | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
stop bailiffs from visiting homes at night and from entering properties | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
where only children are at home. Bailiffs will not be allowed to take | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
essential household items such as washing machines and fridges, and | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
they will have to give courts information on their means of entry | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
and the amount of force required for a warrant is granted. Lawrence works | :13:10. | :13:16. | |
for a reputable enforcement company which welcomes the new law. There | :13:17. | :13:23. | |
will be a bit more admin involved and quite a bit more regulation, | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
mode but the upside is that there will be more carrot for debtors and | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
enforcement companies alike. It will be good all round. Citizens Advice | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
Bureau said they deal with around 1000 bailiffs problems a week. They | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
say it is time the bailiffs to put their houses in order, and if the | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
new law makes them do that, there should be a sharp fall in | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
complaints. If it was my fine, fair enough. Fewer people experiencing | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
the kind of heavy-handed behaviour that Spike Watson has had to put up | :13:57. | :14:06. | |
with. There's been better news for the UK's high streets today after a | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
survey found that most of the big name shops that closed over the past | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
five years have now been re-let. The survey by the accountancy firm | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
Deloitte also found that the high street was outperforming retail | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
parks and shopping centres when it came to filling empty shops. Our | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
business correspondent, Emma Simpson, reports from | :14:23. | :14:24. | |
Weston-super-Mare. It's got all the trappings of a | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
traditional seaside town. In recent years, Weston-super-Mare has been | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
battling against the tide. But it's not all gloom. Take Woolie's, the | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
first big collapse. It is now home to Poundland. Then there is | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
Blockbuster, now a supermarket. TJ Hughes was a department store chain. | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
Things are finally changing here, too. In days gone by, this was a | :14:48. | :14:54. | |
prime destination for shoppers, its rapid demise another blow for the | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
town. The store has been sitting empty for two years, but it's now | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
got a new owner. The top floors could eventually be transformed into | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
new flats. Perhaps there will be a bit of retail down here once more. | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
This is one big, empty property that is about to get a new lease of life, | :15:15. | :15:22. | |
like many others. New research shows that out of nearly 6000 shops | :15:23. | :15:24. | |
affected by the biggest administrations of the last five | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
years, just 20% of them on the high street remain vacant. That vacancy | :15:28. | :15:39. | |
rate goes up to 29% shopping centres, and it goes higher still | :15:40. | :15:46. | |
for shops on retail parks. The high street has recovered far greater | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
than we thought it would partly due to the fact that there are | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
convenience shops for the consumer, be that pound shops, discounters or | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
of course, the supermarkets. That is what has been happening here in | :15:57. | :15:58. | |
Weston-super-Mare, a high street that is reacting to our changing | :15:59. | :16:07. | |
shopping habits. There are loads of food shops, and there are lots of | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
banks and clothes, but there is not much variety for young girls. You go | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
into town to get the odd gift, cards, go to the bank and some | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
toiletries. Like many others, this town has still got a long way to go. | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
There are plenty of empty shops off the main high street, and these may | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
not be so easy to fill. Emma Simpson, BBC News, | :16:29. | :16:39. | |
Weston-super-Mare. David Cameron has again defended the Culture Secretary | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
Maria Miller who has been criticised for her 32nd apology to the Commons | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
yesterday over her failure to cooperate into an enquiry into her | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
expenses. Mr Cameron said she had apologised for her mistakes and | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
people should leave it there. The problem is, people are not leaving | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
it there, are they? They are not, what started as a row about her | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
expenses and her attitude to the enquiry has expanded into a row | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
involving Downing Street and pressed regulation. | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
Let me begin with the expenses claims, a committee of MPs cleared | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
Maria Miller of funding a home for her family at the expense of the | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
taxpayers but they called her to pay back ?60,000, ?40,000 less than a | :17:25. | :17:31. | |
senior party official suggested she should be paying back, leading to a | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
furious reaction by the press who said she had been let off lightly. | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
But Maria Miller as Culture Secretary is in charge of a strict | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
form of press regulation which was going to be introduced following the | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
Leveson enquiry so a lot of the press do not like that and they do | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
not like her. Former allegations were made by the former editor of | :17:55. | :18:01. | |
the Daily Telegraph who repeated claims that Downing Street had asked | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
him not to run the story about Maria Miller, which got a furious response | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
from Craig Oliver, director of communications, who said, there is | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
no threat in anyway over Leveson, best regulation. Tony Gallagher, the | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
former editor of the Daily Telegraph, is talking rubbish about | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
me. Where does this leave Maria Miller? She still retains a Prime | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
Minister 's support and having a row with the press might threaten her | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
job as Culture Secretary but David Cameron still wants women around the | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
table of his Cabinet, so I believe her job is safe and the Prime | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
Minister believes she has apologised for what she was initially | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
criticised for by that committee of MPs. | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
Our top story this lunchtime: The main railway line into the South | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
West of England has re-opened, after being badly damaged in last winter's | :18:53. | :18:53. | |
storms. And I am at Aintree, where we have | :18:54. | :19:05. | |
60,000 fans for ladies day, and tomorrow, it is the Grand National. | :19:06. | :19:12. | |
Later, tackling young offenders with mental health needs, a new scheme on | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
shoes the capital. And Tom Daley 's new coach on her move from the | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
States to the aquatic centre. The London 2012 Olympics might seem | :19:22. | :19:31. | |
like a distant memory, but from this weekend, anyone can re-live those | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
heady days of summer, with a visit to the newly re-opened and re-named | :19:36. | :19:42. | |
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The regeneration of the area was one of | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
the central planks of the Olympic bid and today, Prince Harry and | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
London's Mayor, Boris Johnson, got a chance to see the attractions. Our | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
correspondent, Sarah Campbell, was there too. Sarah. | :19:54. | :20:04. | |
This view became so iconic in 2012 but after that, effectively, the | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
gates to this part were padlocked and almost ?300 million have been | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
spent getting it ready for the public hash this park. Prince Harry | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
and Boris Johnson got a sneak review this morning and they seemed to | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
enjoy it. Chance for royalty and the to seem -- to see the transformation | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
of the Olympic Park, meet some of those behind it and try out the | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
facilities. A slightly reluctant Prince was | :20:29. | :20:40. | |
persuaded by local schoolchildren to test the new playground. Boris | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
Johnson needed no persuading to give the rope bridge a go. Was it as good | :20:46. | :20:52. | |
as you expected or better? Better, that is what she wanted to | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
hear! It was fantastic anyway but the amount of money that has been | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
spent on the creativity, it has brought to life and the public get | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
chance to come here. The kids obviously adore it. | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
Both men clearly had a lot of fun today but they also have personal | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
interests here. Rinse Harry has chosen this is the venue for his pet | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
project, the Invicta is games, and for Boris Johnson, the long-term | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
success of the Olympics will be judged on legacy. | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
The new park is bigger than Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens combined | :21:29. | :21:36. | |
so bikes will come in handy. If Boris can do it, anybody can do | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
it! This charity provides specially adapted mobility cycles, as | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
demonstrated by His Royal Highness. Avoiding the interactive water | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
fountains. It looks far better than even I dreamt and judging by the | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
reaction of the kids, it is going to be a success. | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
From tomorrow, the gates to London 's newest and largest park will be | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
open to everybody. Not so long ago, this area was | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
basically wasteland. The hope is now it will become a focus for local | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
groups, national events and for people who simply wants to come back | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
and relive those summer 2012 memories. -- wants to come back. | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
Police officers in London say they are living in a "culture of fear" | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
because of the "draconian" use of performance targets. The Police | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
Federation surveyed 250 officers and found officers felt under a | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
"constant threat" because of what it called "meaningless" and | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
"unrealistic" targets. Here is our home affairs correspondent, Tom | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
Symonds. When it comes to setting targets for | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
the police, the government says it has just one, to cut crime. | :22:50. | :22:56. | |
The country's biggest force, the Met, has insisted it has no policy | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
of setting targets for arrests. And search. But today, the Police | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
Federation is claiming hitting the numbers is a real pressure on | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
members. This is the sort of e-mail the | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
federation says is circulating among managers. It mentions targets will | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
stop and search and how each officer is doing. This arrest rate is below | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
10% which needs to improve and not be so reliant on drug searches. | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
Another has a fantastic arrest rate but this has made zero arrests. So | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
the federation says despite the official policy, there are unwritten | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
targets which officers are pushed to meet. It is a culture where they | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
stressed, pressurised, always, taken to misconduct procedures when they | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
do not hit specific targets. It is write performance is measured but | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
there are different ways of measurement. This report draws on | :23:55. | :24:02. | |
the accounts of 250 officers out of 32,000, Scotland Yard said a local | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
managers are setting targets, they should not be. | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
We do not condone it, we recognise that in some places we need to do | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
more to coach people to get the best from their teams, but broadly my | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
officers do a great job to protect the public and officers -- and | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
issues like this can be dealt with quickly and simply. Cut stone police | :24:24. | :24:31. | |
officers have contributed to a climate of unrest among some | :24:32. | :24:32. | |
officers. But today's report from London goes | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
further, describing it as a climate of fear. -- cuts in police officers. | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
The former Formula 1 racing champion Michael Schumacher has shown what | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
his manager called "moments of consciousness and awakening". It is | :24:48. | :24:50. | |
more than three months since he sustained severe head injuries | :24:51. | :24:52. | |
during a skiing accident in the French Alps. In a statement, his | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
manager said the 45-year-old was "making progress". | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
England have beaten South Africa to reach a second successive Women's | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
World Twenty20 final. They restricted South Africa to 101, then | :25:07. | :25:08. | |
reached their target within 17 overs. They'll meet Australia in the | :25:09. | :25:21. | |
final on Sunday. The BBC understands seven | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
footballers arrested in connection with allegations of match | :25:25. | :25:26. | |
spot-fixing are all players at Preston. And Barnsley. They are | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
being questioned over allegations of bribery and money laundering. All | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
deny any wrongdoing. Let's speak to our chief sports correspondent, Dan | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
Roan, who is in Preston. Dan, what more can you tell us? | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
Today, the National Crime Agency revealed they had made seven new | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
arrests in connection with an investigation into alleged spot | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
fixing, on top of B6, they had originally made in December. -- on | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
top of the six they had originally made. Six players aged between 18 | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
and 30 play for Preston North End, one of the most gamers clubs, home | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
to the legendary Sir Tom Finney whose statue is behind me at | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
Deepdale. Those six players captain John Welsh, Keith Keane, Bailey | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
Wright, David Buchanan, Ben Davies on loan at York city, Graham Cummins | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
on loan at Rochdale. They have all told the club they are innocent and | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
they have been released on bail and Preston have issued a statement | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
saying they are disappointed the names have got into the public | :26:33. | :26:34. | |
domain. Tomorrow will see the running of the | :26:35. | :26:37. | |
world's most famous steeplechase. 40 horses will start the Grand National | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
including current favourites Teaforthree and Monbeg you. Today, | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
though, is Ladies' Day, where the interest in fashion almost matches | :26:45. | :26:47. | |
the interest in the racing. Our correspondent Andy Swiss is in | :26:48. | :26:54. | |
Aintree. A busy day then, Andy? That is right. The sun is peeking | :26:55. | :27:01. | |
through the clouds at Aintree, good news for the 60,000 fans here. | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
Tomorrow is all about the Grand National but today is where sport | :27:06. | :27:12. | |
meets style. It is the annual running of racing 's fashion stakes. | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
Ladies day at Aintree, when Liverpool concert finery and heads | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
for the horses -- when Liverpool dons its finery. | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
Where do your start -- where do you start? Your tan, your make-up, it | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
takes a long time. You start with the town on Tuesday, the nails, the | :27:33. | :27:40. | |
works in. -- the tanning. Could tomorrow also be a ladies day | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
Chris DiMarco this is the favourite for the Grand National, | :27:45. | :27:47. | |
Teaforthree, trained on the Pembrokeshire coast by Rebecca | :27:48. | :27:50. | |
Curtis, hoping to become the third female trainer to win the National | :27:51. | :27:57. | |
in six years. Everybody wants to win it because it is so hard, even with | :27:58. | :28:01. | |
Teaforthree as favourite, you need a lot of luck, it is not just a trot | :28:02. | :28:10. | |
round, it is a hard race. Others are going for the Royal | :28:11. | :28:13. | |
connection. This is what it is like to ride Monbeg you, bought at an | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
auction by accident by former England rugby star Mike Tindall. | :28:19. | :28:23. | |
After sessions with his wife Zara Phillips, Monbeg you has become an | :28:24. | :28:31. | |
unlikely contender. -- he has become. It was bought by accident | :28:32. | :28:35. | |
trying to be involved in an auction that backfired. He has as good a | :28:36. | :28:41. | |
chance as anybody else. He has beaten a lot of the others in the | :28:42. | :28:45. | |
round, but it is the Grand National, the toughest race in the | :28:46. | :28:49. | |
world. And the most unpredictable, 12 | :28:50. | :28:54. | |
months ago, it was outside Auroras Encore that stole the headlines and | :28:55. | :28:58. | |
now once again the search is on for that winning combination. But the | :28:59. | :29:04. | |
biggest hope here is for a safe Grand National. | :29:05. | :29:07. | |
Last year, they introduced soft offences and the race was free of | :29:08. | :29:14. | |
injuries and organisers will hope for a similar story. -- soft | :29:15. | :29:18. | |
offences. Time for a look at the weather. | :29:19. | :29:24. | |
For the next couple of days, cleaner Atlantic air is coming in, meaning | :29:25. | :29:30. | |
less pollution. And some rain for many of us. A bit of rain heading | :29:31. | :29:35. | |
across the northern part of Scotland, but it is clearing up | :29:36. | :29:42. | |
further South. Another weather front is heading in from the Atlantic, but | :29:43. | :29:47. | |
a lot of dry weather today. Sunny spells developing, especially in the | :29:48. | :29:52. | |
West, but showers in Northern Ireland, Wales and the south-west. | :29:53. | :29:56. | |
Not as warm as it has been recently but a pleasant day, 17, 18 degrees. | :29:57. | :30:01. | |
This evening, right patchy rain from the West, it will not reach eastern | :30:02. | :30:09. | |
areas but it could be a chilly night down the East coast of England. | :30:10. | :30:16. | |
Further West, it is a mild night. Tomorrow, a lot of cloud around. | :30:17. | :30:19. | |
That weak weather front will bring outbreaks of light rain to parts of | :30:20. | :30:24. | |
Scotland, patchy and light further East. Across northern England, | :30:25. | :30:29. | |
outbreaks of light rain but many places of avoiding them. Cloudy | :30:30. | :30:34. | |
across the Midlands, a bit of sunshine to parts of East Anglia | :30:35. | :30:39. | |
towards Kent. Generally cloudy skies through Southern counties of | :30:40. | :30:43. | |
England. Outbreaks of patchy rain for Devon and Cornwall, a lot of low | :30:44. | :30:49. | |
cloud and hill fog here as well, and fairly drizzly bursting across much | :30:50. | :30:53. | |
of Wales. Across the Isle of Man, outbreaks of rain in the morning, | :30:54. | :30:58. | |
and after a wet start in Northern Ireland, it will write an up and | :30:59. | :31:03. | |
improve. This rain wellhead eastwards. -- it will brighten up. A | :31:04. | :31:11. | |
breeze will come in from the South and the south-west and temperatures | :31:12. | :31:15. | |
around 60 degrees, but they do better for the Northwest -- for the | :31:16. | :31:20. | |
North East of England. If you are heading to Aintree, a chance of | :31:21. | :31:24. | |
catching light showers but predominantly it will be dry and | :31:25. | :31:28. | |
outbreaks of rain will be fairly light. Into Sunday, the next area of | :31:29. | :31:33. | |
low pressure will in from the Atlantic, gathering pace. Quite a | :31:34. | :31:41. | |
breezy day, outbreaks of rain and a bit cooler. I am not going on but at | :31:42. | :31:45. | |
least the air quality is getting better. | :31:46. | :31:48. | |
That is better. Now a reminder of our top story this lunchtime: The | :31:49. | :31:55. | |
main railway line in and out of the south-west of England has reopened | :31:56. | :32:00. | |
after being at Leeds damaged in last winter 's storms. That is all from | :32:01. | :32:02. |