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Not out of the woods yet, as latest housing and inflation | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
figures suggest there's still pressure on the UK economy. | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
Inflation rose for the first time in 10 months. | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
Houses prices were up too in the year to March, in London by 17%. | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
We'll be assessing what those figures tell us about the state | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
More than 150,000 people sign an online petition calling on US | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
coastguards to resume its search for four missing British sailors. | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
They say they've done everything they can. | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
Profits at Marks and Spencer fall for the third year | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
in a row, but the company says it's made solid progress. | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
The military in Thailand imposes martial law amid a political crisis. | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
They say it's to preserve law and order and is not a coup. | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
Success for the e-cig, new research shows smokers who use | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
A woman dying of cervical cancer sues the hospital that | :00:53. | :01:01. | |
And Camden's stallholders wait to see if their businesses have | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. | :01:07. | :01:28. | |
The economy may be recovering, but two bits of news today showed that | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
Figures for house prices showed they were still going up rapidly, | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
particularly in London and the South East, confirming fears | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
expressed only a few days ago by the governor of the Bank of England. | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
And today's small increase in inflation, the first | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
in ten months, showed the squeeze on incomes is far from over. | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
Here's our economics correspondent, Simon Jack. | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
The price of goods and services rose at an annual rate of 1.8% in April, | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
a slight rise on last month and ahead of annual wage increases which | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
are running at 1.7%. The timing of Easter helped push the price of some | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
things, like air fares and holidays, up that little bit more. | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
But the picture remains the same, wages are still struggling to keep | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
pace with prices, especially if you take out the value of bonuses, which | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
few people get, what most of us take home in our wallets is still buying | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
a little bit less. That certainly rings true for this family having a | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
birthday lunch in Surrey. I am aware that the pension doesn't quite spend | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
as much, because the basics, heating and this sort of thing, they are | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
going up. The main things I notice our day-to-day items, shopping, | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
petrol. Although pay rises are small, there are signs we feel more | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
confident spending what we do in, according to Natasha, who has worked | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
in this pub for several years. Compare to the last few years, | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
customers have maybe been a little bit better. But I think it's a long | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
way to go to catch up from what happened a few years ago. I think we | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
have a bit of a climb to get back up to feeling well off again. But | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
customers have been tipping slightly better. Nowhere is the confidence | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
more evident than in the housing market, particularly in Sunderland | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
and -- London and south-east. There are calls for action to prevent | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
overheating. A number of things can be done. The Government could modify | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
the help to buy scheme. That is allowing people relatively low | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
incomes to borrow more. The other thing that the Bank of England could | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
do is put pressure on the High Street banks to lend less to people | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
that are a bit more financially vulnerable. Although up over the | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
year, prices actually fell in March for the first time in 12 months, | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
signs perhaps that new stricter rules on mortgage lending are | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
beginning to have an effect. It may be too early to tell if it is | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
slowing down or just pausing for breath. | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
Norman Smith is in Westminster. There are concerns about the housing | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
market, I suppose the question is what the Government will do about | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
it? That is the big question, house prices are politically critical. How | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
many times have we been here before, one a recovering economy has been | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
derailed when the housing bubble bursts? This time, a slightly | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
different situation, insofar as responsibility of what to do is | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
being passed off to the Governor of the Bank of England. It's an extent | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
it seems something of a hospital pass. He cannot magic up new homes, | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
is constrained on interest rates because of the impact on the | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
economy. He can tinker with help to buy, but it is only a small part of | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
the market. When you talk to ministers, they seem to be of the | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
view that it is not a UK problem, it is a London problem. They point out | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
that outside of London, house prices only went up by 4%. They are still | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
15% below their pre-crash peak. If the governor agrees, it may be that | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
when he comes forward with recommendations next month, these | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
may be measures not to dampen down the housing market in the UK, but to | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
dampen down the housing market in London. | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
And if you want to know where you can afford to live you can use the | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
BBC's house calculator on the website at bbc.co.uk/news. | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
More than 150,000 people have now signed an online petition urging | :05:28. | :05:29. | |
the US Coastguard to resume the search for four British yachtsmen | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
Efforts to find them were called off after a two day | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
The Foreign Office says the US Coastguard had assured them they | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
did everything they could and would have done exactly | :05:44. | :05:45. | |
The experienced sailors were last in contact on Friday | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
after their boat, the Cheeky Rafiki, began taking on water. | :05:50. | :05:51. | |
Duncan Kennedy joins us now from Southampton. | :05:52. | :06:00. | |
Well, Simon, the numbers of people signing the petition you spoke of | :06:01. | :06:07. | |
our going up and up. A short time ago it was, as you said, more than | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
150,000. It is not just people in the yachting world, it is a wider | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
world that has been caught up in the story. What we are told by everyone | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
we speak to us that they are not questioning the professionalism of | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
the US Coast Guard, they are saying this is a basic human plea, please, | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
please, stop this search again. -- start. | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
These are the dramatic new pictures from the Atlantic on the same day | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
the Cheeki Rafiki went missing. But this is not the British yacht, it is | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
a French one in trouble, in roughly the same area, south of Cape Cod. | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
The American Coast Guard says by the time the Cheeki Rafiki sent out the | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
distress call, the wind was stronger and the seas were higher. Four | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
British men, Andrew Bridge, James Male, Paul Goslin and Steve Warren, | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
used electronic beacons to raise the alarm. That did lead to a Coast | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
Guard search for the vessel lasting 50 hours. It was called off on | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
Sunday. The Foreign Office today said the US Coast Guard had assured | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
us that they did everything they could and they would have done | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
exactly the same for US citizens. 150,000 people, the support has got | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
quite big. Vast numbers of people in the yachting world disagree. Clubs | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
like this one in Southampton have been leading a massive online | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
campaign to push for a new search. We are such a sailing nation that | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
everybody knows somebody who is a sailor. | :07:43. | :07:43. | |
everybody knows somebody who is a agree with what the sailors think | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
and they want more people out there searching. Extraordinary rescues at | :07:47. | :07:53. | |
sea are possible. 27 years ago, Tony Bullimore survived five days | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
clinging to his upturned yacht in the treacherous Southern Ocean. He | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
says the Americans should rethink their decision. The crew are all | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
pretty fit, experienced guys. They have the right equipment, a good | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
life raft, life jackets and the other equipment that goes with them. | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
They could well and truly be out there waiting for somebody to rescue | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
them. It is a view shared by Susan, who took part in the same race that | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
the missing men had been in. Since Sunday, nobody has been looking for | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
them. That is the frustration. Every hour that passes, we are wasting | :08:29. | :08:35. | |
time. The US Coast Guard has rescued people for more than 200 years. It | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
knows its business. With these men unaccounted for, it is facing police | :08:40. | :08:41. | |
to search again. The reality is that it has been five | :08:42. | :08:50. | |
days since these men were last heard of. Unless there is an organised | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
search, the chances of another passing ship coming along and | :08:55. | :08:56. | |
finding anything are getting more and more remove, which is why we are | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
here this lunchtime that some members of the families of the men | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
wanted the Prime Minister, David Cameron, to get involved. The truth | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
is, the window of hope and the of opportunity is narrowing with every | :09:09. | :09:09. | |
hour. The trial of Rolf Harris has been | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
hearing from the fourth and final alleged victim, who has | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
waived her right to anonymity. Tonya Lee told | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
the court how he allegedly assaulted The former entertainer is charged | :09:19. | :09:20. | |
with 12 counts of indecent assault, Sangita Myska is | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
at Southwark crown court. What has the court been hearing this | :09:27. | :09:40. | |
morning? That's right, as you say, we have been hearing from Tonya Lee, | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
Rolf Harris's for alleged victim. She is now 43. We can name her | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
because she has waived her right to anonymity, because she has given a | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
series of paid interviews about her story in Australia. She told the | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
court that in 1986 she was 15 years old. She flew to London from Sydney | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
with an Australian theatre group. Altogether there were 14 or 15 | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
people, including three adults. She says when they arrived at Heathrow | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
Airport, she was met, along with the others, by Rolf Harris because he | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
was a friend of the director. She said that they went to dinner at a | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
London pub, busy with other people. She said it was a happy atmosphere | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
and they had been singing and making jokes. She said, one point, Rolf | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
Harris beckoned her over to sit on his knee and she didn't think | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
anything of it because he was such a well-known face on television, both | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
here and in Australia. She went on to say it was then that he carried | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
out his first alleged indecent assault by putting his hand up her | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
skirt. She said she was frightened and went to the toilet to get away, | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
but when she came out Rolf Harris was standing outside. She said he | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
then gave her a bear hug. During that time, he indecently assaulted | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
her one more time by putting his hand down her blouse. She said she | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
was very frightened and confused but did not tell anyone because she felt | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
she would not be believed. The case continues. Rolf Harris denies all of | :11:07. | :11:07. | |
the charges against him. Marks and Spencer's annual profits | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
have fallen The retailer's underlying profits | :11:11. | :11:12. | |
were down 3.9%, to ?623 million. Its Chief Executive, Mark Bolland, | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
said the food part of the business had grown, | :11:19. | :11:20. | |
but sales of general merchandise Our business correspondent | :11:21. | :11:22. | |
Emma Simpson reports. The clothes look nice and sunny. But | :11:23. | :11:37. | |
the same cannot be said for Marks Spencer's profits. Although food is | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
doing well, it has been another year of disappointing sales in women's | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
fashion. I think that they have not moved as far as it needs to move. It | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
hasn't met its key targets in profits or sales. It is actually, if | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
anything, falling backwards in terms of market share. The main thrust of | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
the problem as it has not got to grips with its womenswear business. | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
Getting this bit right is crucial for M It has been revamping | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
clothes and stores to try and get women's fashion back on track. After | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
several years of declining sales, it is taking time. M have injected | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
more fashion content into their ranges. You can see that in their | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
stores. It is definitely an improvement, but there is still a | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
long way to go in order to really meet customer needs. M has spent | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
?1 billion in the last three years trying to revitalise the business. | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
For instance, it is heavily promoting its new look website right | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
now. The question is, when will all of this investment start to pay off? | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
The company says it is now in much better shape to produce stronger | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
returns. But it warns that sales could be hit over the next few | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
months as customers get used to the new website. But in retail it all | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
comes down to the product and whether shoppers want to buy. | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
Opinion is still mixed. I like Marks Opinion is still mixed. I like Marks | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
Spencer 's and I go there a lot. But it's not as good as it used to | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
be. I think they have far too much stuff in there. The price and | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
quality, it does actually make sense, you know? You get quality for | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
your money. I usually have a lot to see if there is anything, but I can | :13:20. | :13:27. | |
never find anything. M says that progress is being made, but with all | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
of this investment in place it knows it really needs to deliver. | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
Thailand's army has declared martial law, it says to restore order | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
after six months of street protests that have left the country without | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
The military have denied that this was a de-facto coup | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
and have called for talks between the rival political factions. | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
Jonah Fisher, our correspondent in Bangkok, has just sent this report. | :13:47. | :13:57. | |
After seven months of demonstrations on the streets of the capital, the | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
Army decided it had seen enough. In the early hours of this morning, | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
troops moved in, blocking Bangkok streets, surrounding protest sites | :14:10. | :14:20. | |
and occupying television stations. The army commander, General Prayuth, | :14:21. | :14:22. | |
declared that martial law had been introduced, to prevents Billy Bragg | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
reprint bloodshed and restore stability. He stopped short of | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
announcing a coup. But the military is now firmly in charge and the | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
status of the elected government is a vague. It is not clear what forced | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
the Army's hand. But as the protests have dragged on, they have become | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
ever more violent and unpredictable. This week, the leader | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
of the anti-government movement called for a final battle in what | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
has become an increasingly desperate attempt to seize power. Many of his | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
supporters are wealthy Bangkok residents and they see politics as | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
having been hopelessly corrupted by the former feminist, Thaksin | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
Shinawatra. Two weeks ago, the court forced his sister to step down. But | :15:10. | :15:16. | |
the protests have continued. Much will now depend on how the | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
government's supporters, for now camped outside Bangkok, respond to | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
the Army's move. For now, there is an almost eerie calm here. Many | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
soldiers have returned to barracks. On the surface at least, this is a | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
very discreet form of martial law. Having decided to step in, the onus | :15:33. | :15:42. | |
is now on the military to broker some kind of way out of Thailand's | :15:43. | :15:43. | |
political crisis. the first time in ten months. House | :15:44. | :15:55. | |
prices were up to in the year to March in London by 17%. | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
And still to come: Unwrapping the secrets of the Egyptian mummies. New | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
scans reveal details never seen before. | :16:04. | :16:10. | |
Later on BBC London, 70 years on from the Normandy landings, D-Day | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
veterans mark the anniversary on HMS Belfast. | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
And, why the Science Museum's Denman Horn is making waves again. | :16:20. | :16:27. | |
No-one who fought in the First World War is alive today and children of | :16:28. | :16:34. | |
today are unlikely to have ever met someone who lived during the Great | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
War. So, making a personal connection to the past can be hard, | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
but from today, the Government will pay for two children from every | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
secondary school in England to visit battlefield sites in Belgium and | :16:46. | :16:47. | |
France. It's hoped it will give them a | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
deeper understanding of the conflict and they'll share their knowledge | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
when they come home. Robert Hall accompanied students on | :16:55. | :16:55. | |
one of the first tours. Under the great arch of the Menin | :16:56. | :17:11. | |
Gate. The British children who're standard | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
bearers for their schools and their communities. | :17:16. | :17:24. | |
I'm going to be around over the next couple of days helping you get the | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
most from this battlefield tour. Over the next four years, 8,000 | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
children will share an experience which offers remembrance but above | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
all, a deeper understanding. The aim is to convince every student that | :17:39. | :17:40. | |
the story of a is to convince every student that | :17:41. | :17:42. | |
connect with. is to convince every student that | :17:43. | :17:50. | |
I think seeing like actual pictures and finding out through this | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
everything about them kind of gives more than a 3D effect of who they | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
were. It's going to bring it alive to them so much more and make them | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
more in tune with their community and locality and hopefully give them | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
even more of a passion for history. The following morning, they were | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
travelling across the Belgian battlefields. I want to talk briefly | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
about the third Battle of Ypres. It's easy to be overwhelmed by the | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
11,000 white gravestones which line the slopes of the cemetery. But | :18:20. | :18:30. | |
these visitors have a focus. Sam and Regan have tracked down one | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
man who's also commemorated on their local war memorial. | :18:36. | :18:45. | |
This was 100 years ago. A couple of years, we could be going off to war | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
as well. It's almost scary in a way that this could have been us. | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
14-year-old Charlotte has that this could have been us. | :18:57. | :18:58. | |
that her great great uncle lies in that this could have been us. | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
another cemetery close by. A century on, she | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
another cemetery close by. A century behalf of his family. | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
It was a bit emotional, but yes, I just wanted to just say a little | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
prayer in my head and yes. I think it's really important | :19:18. | :19:18. | |
prayer in my head and yes. I think it's really because again, you feel | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
a connection to the people that are here and I guess it's another | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
opportunity because these people when their family passes, they won't | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
get to have people visit their graves. | :19:31. | :19:38. | |
In the going down of the sun and in the morn | :19:39. | :19:38. | |
them. These young people will share them. These young people will share | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
their experiences and knowledge back home, bringing history alive for | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
their class mates and families. Their journey does not end when the | :19:49. | :19:57. | |
bugles fade. The Prime Minister has welcomed the | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
conviction in the United States of the radical preacher, Abu Hamza, but | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
David Cameron's promised to review the lengthy extradition system if he | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
wins the next general election. The radical Muslim cleric faces a | :20:11. | :20:12. | |
possible life sentence after being found guilty of supporting terrorism | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
by a court in New York. Our Security Correspondent, Frank Gardner joins | :20:16. | :20:17. | |
me now. It's been a very lengthy process, | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
and much of the evidence on which he was convicted came from this country | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
in the first place, so why wasn't he convicted here? I put exactly that | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
question today to the Crown Prosecution Service because the main | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
thing he was convicted for in the States in this court was his role in | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
the kidnapping of 16 western tourists by a very ruthless armed | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
gang back in 1998. As you rightly say, he wasn't convicted of that in | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
the UK, he was convicted of that in the US of incitement to murder. On | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
two separate occasions they say they tried to bring the case against him. | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
They worked with senior prosecutors and officers to bring the case | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
against him and they decided they simply didn't have enough evidence. | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
They say there were things used in the US court against him that would | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
not have been admissible in the UK. They won't say what they were, but | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
one of the things that was instrumental in this was the | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
satellite phone that he supplied to the kidnappers and he spoke to the | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
kidnappers during the ordeal of the 16 western hostages. That's one of | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
the things that appears post appears to have gone for him in this case. | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
New research suggests using electronic cigarettes does help | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
people give up smoking. A study of around 6,000 e-cigarette smokers in | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
England found the success race was around 60% higher than those who | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
used will power alone, nicotine patches or even gum. Here is Branwen | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
jetries. Suddenly you see them everywhere. E-cigarettes are easy to | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
buy over-the-counter, but how good are they at helping you give up? | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
Some health experts say they are helping make cigarettes seem normal. | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
They worry it could encourage smoking to linger as a habit. But | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
this research suggests that right now, they may be making a | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
difference. Smoking rates are coming down, the | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
rates at which people are trying to stop smoking are going up, the rates | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
at which people are succeeding at stopping smoking is going up, the | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
proportion of people using e-cigarettes who've never smoked is | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
extremely low. This research on quitting smoking | :22:23. | :22:29. | |
looked at different methods. More than 5,800 smokers were asked about | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
their experience. It found e-cigarettes were 61% better than | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
will power alone or than buying nicotine patches over-the-counter. | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
NHS Stop Smoking Services which also offers support worked best. What it | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
doesn't tell us is whether e-cids help people stay a non-smoker. We | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
are reasonably confident that in what we know about the rate of | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
relapse when people have stopped for a given length of time that any | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
benefits that we have observed now will probably continue. | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
The amount of nicotine in e-cids varies greatly. As a commercial | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
product, there's no set standard. Critics want to see them more | :23:11. | :23:17. | |
tightly regulated. The Police Federation meets today | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
with the Annual Conference dominated by the row over allegations of | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
bullying. The BBC has been told about new claims that a senior | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
official was bullied at a federation meeting. Let's go to Bournemouth and | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
speak to our Home Affairs correspondent, Matt Prodger. | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
Mat. That's just the latest allegation of | :23:36. | :23:37. | |
bullying within the Police Federation. It's actually been | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
dismissed by the federation itself and indeed the alleged victim of | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
that particular bullying claim, the vice chairman of the organisation, | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
Steve White, has said he's not a bully. But it contributes to the | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
perception of an organisation that's been out of control and | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
unaccountable. Indeed, it was described today as crude and | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
disrespectful, not by an MP, not by a Government, but by one of the men | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
who's hoping to lead this federation at the end of this conference, a man | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
called Will Richards, saying they had been crude and disrespectful, | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
they made enemies in Government when they should have been looking for | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
friends and that they had targeted individuals, a reference there to | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
plebgate back in 2012 when Andrew Mitchell, the Government minister, | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
was forced out of the Government and there was Police Federation | :24:27. | :24:29. | |
involvement there. Now, there's been a couple of reviews since then, both | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
stinging in their criticism of the federation, not just bullying, but | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
scrutiny of its finances and a need for greater accountability. So | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
that's what the delegates here will be voting on over coming days, a | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
wide-ranging reform, most of which will go through, some may not. What | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
we can say is that, after this conference, the Police Federation | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
which represents 125,000 officers in England and Wales, is unlikely to be | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
the same again. Be Thank you. The Premier League's | :25:02. | :25:04. | |
Chief Executive, Richard skewed me, remains under pressure today as the | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
FA's PROBLEM WITH SOUND | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
He was told yesterday by the Premier League that he won't face | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
disciplinary action over the messages which were leaked to a | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
newspaper. It said that although the e-mails included inappropriate | :25:21. | :25:23. | |
remarks, there was no evidence of wider discriminatory attitudes. Our | :25:24. | :25:26. | |
sports correspondent, Nat Liz Perks reports. | :25:27. | :25:33. | |
-- Natalie Perks. The backing of his 17 clubs. The process that kept | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
Richard Scudamore in his job has left the Premier League open to | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
criticism with the PA who exposed derogatory e-mails describing it as | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
a whitewash. The Premier League hired external legal advisers to | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
help clubs reach a decision, but campaign group Kick It Out believes | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
a more independent inquiry was needed. | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
We could have had a proper process that was fair, independent and | :25:59. | :26:01. | |
objective, probably arrived at the same conclusion, but most people | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
would have felt there was justice in the way in which it was conducted. | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
We now need to see that addressed in future, that there is a proper | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
process, one that most people believe applied to everyone. Greg | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
Dyke maintained taking action against Scudamore was outstied FA's | :26:21. | :26:23. | |
remit. The BBC understands legal advice sent to the likes of Heather | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
Rabbatts, chair of the inclusion and viery board which meets later this | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
afternoon, argues there is no law stopping the governing boaty from | :26:33. | :26:35. | |
taking the matter further. It's a move that would be welcomed. Women | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
in football have never called for him to resign or lose his job, it's | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
about demonstrating that all the messages that come out of football | :26:44. | :26:46. | |
about equality that women are important are going to be put into | :26:47. | :26:49. | |
action. The Premier League insists Scudamore has the full support of | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
the women who work for him and remains committed to sub porting | :26:54. | :26:56. | |
women in the game. -- supporting women in the game. | :26:57. | :27:03. | |
Four thousands of years, their identities have remain add mystery, | :27:04. | :27:10. | |
now researchers at the museum can reveal body scans in unprecedented | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
detail, meaning for the first time scientists can tell their age, what | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
they ate and even how they died. Pallab gauche reports. | :27:19. | :27:24. | |
An ancient burial casket that's never been opened since it was | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
sealed thousands of years ago. Very soon, researchers will be able to | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
see the woman inside. This is how we used to see mummies, | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
entombed in their burial caskets. The CT scans enable us to see right | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
through the casket and even through the bandages. | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
Here is the body of a 40-year-old woman, buried with her precious | :27:50. | :27:54. | |
amlets, it's the first time that has been seen for 4,000 years. | :27:55. | :28:00. | |
And this mummy is of a young girl, seven or eight years old. Even her | :28:01. | :28:05. | |
hair has been preserved. On an emotional level, you become | :28:06. | :28:09. | |
closer to these people, you start to recognise them as individuals who | :28:10. | :28:15. | |
once lived just like ourselves. The enbalmers often got it wrong. | :28:16. | :28:19. | |
This man's head fell off when he was being mummified. It had to be stuck | :28:20. | :28:23. | |
back on with poles, shown in green. The aim of the study is to learn | :28:24. | :28:28. | |
more about the people underneath the bandages, and, in a sense, bring the | :28:29. | :28:35. | |
mummies back to life. Let's have a look at the weather | :28:36. | :28:42. | |
with Phil Avery. Pretty cheery and fair for some | :28:43. | :28:44. | |
parts of the British Isles. There's got to be a but. There is a notion | :28:45. | :28:50. | |
about thunder storms in the afternoon. We have been here, as was | :28:51. | :28:54. | |
coo the case yesterday, the south-west seen much of the action, | :28:55. | :28:59. | |
it's on its way across the Bristol channel now. As you see, as the | :29:00. | :29:03. | |
afternoon progresses, it isn't just going to be there. I suspect we are | :29:04. | :29:08. | |
seeing the first signs of the showers beginning to develop | :29:09. | :29:11. | |
elsewhere. Remember the headline, some could be thundery in nature if | :29:12. | :29:14. | |
circumstances come together. The south-west of England for the most | :29:15. | :29:18. | |
part, you have had your turn, but in this belt away from central and | :29:19. | :29:20. | |
southern parts of Wales, this belt away from central and | :29:21. | :29:24. | |
the Midlands and north of England, parts of East Anglia, here the rain | :29:25. | :29:27. | |
could develop during the course of the afternoon. A lull in proceedings | :29:28. | :29:30. | |
for Northern Ireland after a wet morning, northern England too at | :29:31. | :29:33. | |
this stage fine and dry. Don't discount the possibility where the | :29:34. | :29:36. | |
heat's broken through across the north of Scotland, 22 in one or two | :29:37. | :29:41. | |
spots here, that we may find one or two thunder storms popping off. | :29:42. | :29:45. | |
Before this arc of potential, and I do stress potential, thunder storm | :29:46. | :29:50. | |
activity and heavy downpours works its way across the northern half to | :29:51. | :29:54. | |
reside across the north-west on a night that will be a tad fresher | :29:55. | :29:57. | |
than was the case during the course of last night. Mist and fog around, | :29:58. | :30:00. | |
perhaps across the south-east, maybe Wales and the south-west. Murky | :30:01. | :30:05. | |
across the north-east and the Northern Isles tomorrow. A sandwich, | :30:06. | :30:09. | |
if you like. Rain across the far north-west, a lot of dry weather and | :30:10. | :30:12. | |
rain coming out through East Anglia and the south-east and France. As | :30:13. | :30:15. | |
the heat gets going again, we may pop off some showers across southern | :30:16. | :30:20. | |
England, through the Midlands, one or two spray ones further north. The | :30:21. | :30:24. | |
prospects for Chelsea. I was pessimistic about Tuesday and | :30:25. | :30:26. | |
Wednesday. Wednesday looks half decent. A different beast on | :30:27. | :30:30. | |
Thursday though, and near again, we are looking away towards the south. | :30:31. | :30:36. | |
Warmth and moisture again. The Met Office already have concerns about | :30:37. | :30:39. | |
the intensity of the rainfall.ivity could be, and again it is a bit of a | :30:40. | :30:42. | |
could, across Wales and the south-west, we could see 40mm of | :30:43. | :30:46. | |
rain and then that rain drives towards the central goal finish off | :30:47. | :30:50. | |
the day, something cooler again across the northern parts of | :30:51. | :30:52. | |
Scotland. Come Friday, much of that rain will be confined to the borders | :30:53. | :30:58. | |
area of Scotland, maybe the odd drib and drab in the south-west. A lot of | :30:59. | :31:01. | |
dry weather elsewhere and the temperatures very pleasant indeed, | :31:02. | :31:05. | |
maxing at about 20 or so. Lots going on. Back again tomorrow to bring you | :31:06. | :31:08. | |
the very latest. Thank you very much. | :31:09. | :31:12. | |
Now a reminder of the top story: Inflation has risen for the first | :31:13. | :31:16. | |
time in ten months. House prices were up too in the year to March in | :31:17. | :31:22. | |
London by 17%. That is all from us. Now | :31:23. | :31:24. |