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The Queen has outlined the Government's final programme of | :00:07. | :00:08. | |
before the next election, including plans to allow voters powers to sack | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
MPs, and the biggest shakeup in a generation to pensions. | :00:13. | :00:24. | |
These reforms will also allow for innovation in the Private pensions | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
market to give greater control to employees. The Labour has dismissed | :00:31. | :00:37. | |
the coalition as a zombie government that has run out of ideas. | :00:38. | :00:45. | |
We'll have the latest from Westminster. | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
There's infighting between Tory heavyweights Theresa May and | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
Michael Gove, on who should be tackling alledged | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
Police searching for the missing Briton Gareth Huntley | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
The Taliban have released video of the handover of a captured US | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
soldier following a prisoner swap for five of their fighters. | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
They were pictures that shocked the world and helped change a nation. | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
We'll look back at the day 25 years ago | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
when thousands of troops opened fire on protestors in Tiananmen Square. | :01:09. | :01:15. | |
And we'll look at the crucial role played in the D-Day | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
One man is dead and 13 injured in a crash between a car and bus and | :01:19. | :01:36. | |
Clapton. And the coroner at the Mark Duggan inquest raises concerns about | :01:37. | :01:37. | |
the case. Good afternoon and welcome to the | :01:38. | :01:52. | |
One O'Clock News. The Queen has set out | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
the legislation the government hopes to pass before | :01:59. | :01:59. | |
the general election next May. The speech in the House of Lords | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
contained 11 new bills on deregulation targets, | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
shale gas exploration and pensions. Ministers said | :02:08. | :02:09. | |
the programme showed the coalition's continuing "boldness", | :02:10. | :02:10. | |
but Labour's leader, Ed Miliband, said it failed to match the scale | :02:11. | :02:12. | |
of the problems faced by Britain. Our political correspondent | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
Carole Walker reports. Her madgesties set out for the | :02:16. | :02:30. | |
ceremony of the State opening of Parliament in a brand-new carriage, | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
but critics say her speech showed a tired looking coalition near the end | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
of its life, lacking the energy to tackle big challenges. It is a | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
ceremony which in tradition with the door to the Commons slammed in the | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
face, symbolising the independence of MPs. They are then summoned to | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
the presence of the monarch. This is the last opportunity for this | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
coalition to show what it can do. At the heart of the speech was a | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
shake-up of pensions. Legislation will be brought forward to bring | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
those who have saved discretion over the use of their retirement funds. | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
My government's pension reforms will also allow innovation in the Private | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
pensions market to give greater control to employees. There were | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
several contentious measures for Parliament to consider. My | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
government will continue its programme of political reform. My | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
ministers will introduce legislation on the recall of members of | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
Parliament. Everyone agrees that is a good idea, but there are | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
disagreements on how it should work. What else was announced? A new | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
childcare subsidy for working parents with up to ?2000 a year for | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
each child. A Modern Slavery Bill with tougher sentences for those | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
convicted of slavery and human trafficking. And a 5p charge for | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
using a plastic bag in England. The speech promised work to promote | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
reform in the European Union but no commitment to enshrine in law David | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
Cameron's promise of a referendum by 2017, something may Tory MPs and | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
ministers want. The reason we could not have it in the Queen's Speech is | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
we do not have coalition agreement on it. That is why as a party we'd | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
been doing everything we can to try to get that referendum commitment | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
through. No one is hiding the coalition division on this. We have | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
already legislated as a coalition government to hold a referendum if | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
there were any transfer of powers to the European Union. I think what the | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
argument is about is how we can achieve reform, what is the most | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
effective way of doing that? Is it by sniping from the sidelines, or is | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
it by getting stuck in. Labour says the coming programme has the wrong | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
priorities. We want to reform our banks, build homes again in Britain, | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
freeze energy bills, meet the big challenges our country faces. With | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
the pomp and ceremony over, political arguments are already | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
underway. The measures outlined today will set the agenda for the | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
coming months to some extent, but all parties will be saving some real | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
red meat for the manifestoes for their general election in less than | :05:28. | :05:28. | |
one year's time. Plans for dramatic changes to | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
pensions took centre stage The government has abolished | :05:33. | :05:34. | |
the requirement for pensioners to buy an annuity, and wants workers | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
to contribute to "collective pension" funds which they will share | :05:39. | :05:40. | |
with thousands of other members. Our business correspondent | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
Simon Jack explains. As expected, the speech introduced | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
plans to introduce a new type of pension scheme already popular | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
in some European countries. At the moment, | :05:51. | :05:52. | |
employees and employers have interpersonal one member schemes, | :05:53. | :05:54. | |
if you like, known as defined contribution schemes, each with its | :05:55. | :05:56. | |
own administration costs that nibble Under this new plan, | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
employees would pay into one big scheme where those costs would be | :06:00. | :06:09. | |
shared, and some estimate that all those small cost savings could add | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
up over time to 30% more income in retirement, although that income | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
could fluctuate. Obviously in times of crisis, | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
it does mean pensions sometimes need to go down, they've gone down 2% | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
on average in Holland, for example, But in general, they can keep | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
steady and rise with inflation. And of course they give | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
a better pay out if we are all doing However, another recent proposal to | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
allow people to take all the money out when they retire and do what | :06:35. | :06:42. | |
they want to it means this new communal pot could shrink suddenly | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
as people leave, taking their money with them, which will make it very | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
hard to manage. For this to work, lots of companies have to club | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
together to do it, but many companies have signed up just signed | :06:53. | :06:54. | |
up to the government's last big pensions idea, automatic enrolment, | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
so may be reluctant to try another Norman Smith is at Westminster for | :06:58. | :07:19. | |
us. Is this a bold legislative agenda or the rattling of a zombie | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
government? Well, there was an absolute priority for the government | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
to quash the idea they had become a zombie government. Why? Because in | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
the real world people are still struggling to pay their way, it is | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
hard to get onto the housing ladder, they do not want to see a government | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
that is sleepwalking in the land of the living dead. So ministers are | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
stressing they are brimming with energy and ideas and flagging up key | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
bits of legislation such as the pension changes we just heard | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
about. Measures to make it easier for companies to drill under land, | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
changes to childcare, and also free school meals. But it seems to me if | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
it is not a zombie Parliament, we are in the last orders Parliament. | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
By that, I mean we are in the last year, there is less than 12 months | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
to go till the election. Only around 100 legislative days to get any | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
measure through. There simply isn't the space for a big legislative | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
programme. Secondly, we learn from what isn't in the speech about the | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
difficulties the coalition base about agreement on many measures. So | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
nothing about Europe, nothing on immigration. Labour have been | :08:40. | :08:46. | |
critical, what did they suggest should have been in the speech? They | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
would a bad measures to freeze energy prices, to build houses, | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
houses, immigration, the NHS. I would just point to the fact that | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
the last year of the last Labour government, their speech actually | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
was the shortest ever and only contained nine bills, whereas | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
today's is 11. Today is much about ritual and tradition, and it seems | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
to me one ritual and solution of the British parliamentary system is that | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
when you get to the last year of the government, any government, | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
attention inevitably begins to shift from the process of governing to the | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
business of fighting an election. Norman Smith, thank you. | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
Two of the most senior members of the cabinet - the Home Secretary, | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
Theresa May, and the Education Secretary, Michael Gove - have | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
Mr Gove believes Mrs May's department ignores extremism, and | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
Mrs May responded by accusing him of failing to deal with | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
the alleged Islamic plot to take over state schools in Birmingham. | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
Our political correspondent Alex Forsyth is at Westminster. | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
Just explain the background. Well, this all centres on that | :09:58. | :10:05. | |
alleged plot by hardline Muslims to take over schools in Birmingham. | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
Those have not been proven but it has not stopped what seems to be a | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
row about how the government has handled this. Michael Gove thinks | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
the government is too soft on extremism. He is said to have | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
clashed with the Home Secretary Theresa May at a recent meeting of a | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
special task force set up to tackle extremism. His people are playing | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
that down, but there clearly is some friction because the Home Secretary | :10:33. | :10:41. | |
has written to the Department for Education raising serious questions | :10:42. | :10:42. | |
about school governance. Sources within the Home Office have told us | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
they think Mr Gove is trying to make this someone else's problem. This | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
morning, Number Ten tried to dampen down this erupting row and we've had | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
a joint statement from two reason may and Michael Gove is saying, | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
look, we are working together to try to tackle this very serious problem. | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
But these are two very senior government figures from the same | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
party, and their political opponents have jumped on this, calling it an | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
unedifying row. Next week, we are expecting reports into the allegedly | :11:13. | :11:24. | |
and the schools in Birmingham. Everyone involved will want to make | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
sure attention is focused on what they need to do, if anything, to | :11:28. | :11:29. | |
deal with that problem, and away from this infighting. | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
Police searching for the missing British man Gareth Huntley | :11:33. | :11:34. | |
34-year-old Mr Huntley has not been seen since he started a trek to | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
a waterfall on Tioman Island just over a week ago. | :11:40. | :11:41. | |
According to local reports, the body, which has not been | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
identified, was found in a pond close to the turtle conservation | :11:45. | :11:46. | |
The search to find Gareth Huntley involved more than 100 looking | :11:47. | :11:58. | |
through to rain covered in dense jungle. Friends and family had | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
initially raised concerns not enough was being done to find him, but | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
eventually the search included dogs, boats and a helicopter. Yesterday, | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
the search area was narrowed. Today, police said a body had been found. | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
There has not been confirmation it is that of Gareth Huntley. He'd been | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
travelling in Asia but six months and had come to the island as a | :12:23. | :12:42. | |
conservation volunteer. He was working at this turtle project, and | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
it was there he told friends he planned to track to admit -- a | :12:46. | :12:47. | |
nearby waterfall. He never returned. Local media outlets say the body was | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
found close to the conservation project. His mother travelled to the | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
island at the start of the week. The Foreign Office says it is providing | :12:54. | :12:55. | |
support to the family. Malaysian authorities say a forensic team is | :12:56. | :12:57. | |
travelling to the island to carry out further investigations. | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
The Taliban have released a video showing the handover of a US soldier | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
controversially exchanged for five detainees held at Guantanamo Bay. | :13:06. | :13:07. | |
The footage shows Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl in Afghan | :13:08. | :13:09. | |
clothing, as he's freed and taken to a waiting helicopter. | :13:10. | :13:11. | |
The prisoner swap has been criticised by Republicans in the US, | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
who say releasing Taliban fighters could put American lives at risk. | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
Our world affairs correspondent Emily Buchanan has more. | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
The handover, choreographed and filmed by the Taliban somewhere in | :13:24. | :13:25. | |
Sergeant Bergdahl arrives, blinking after five years of captivity. | :13:26. | :13:39. | |
He is guarded by heavily armed members of the Haqqani network, | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
a Pakistan-based group closely allied to the Taliban. | :13:43. | :13:52. | |
Two of the fighters lead the soldier toward his countrymen. | :13:53. | :14:02. | |
This is thought to be the first time Americans have met | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
The commentator said the insurgents wanted to have a conversation, | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
The Americans were taking no chances. | :14:11. | :14:21. | |
The Sergeant's release has provoked a political storm back home. | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
Republicans say the exchange with five leading | :14:25. | :14:26. | |
insurgents from Guantanamo will put American lives at risk. | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
President Obama has strongly defended the deal. | :14:33. | :14:33. | |
The US Army says the soldier could still face charges | :14:34. | :14:43. | |
after members of his platoon accused him of being a deserter. | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
The video ends with a warning - if he comes back to Afghanistan, | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
Has outlined the final programme of government measures before the | :14:50. | :15:08. | |
election including the biggest shake-up in a generation to pensions | :15:09. | :15:10. | |
-- the Queen has outlined. The garden cities of the future, | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
how the lives of thousands We are at Heathrow's brand-new | :15:14. | :15:22. | |
second terminal where the first flight landed this morning and get a | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
glimpse of this years summer exhibition at the Royal Academy. | :15:26. | :15:35. | |
Thousands of security personnel are on the | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
streets of Beijing, to prevent any commemoration of the crushing of the | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
student-led protests in Tiananmen Square 25 years ago today. | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
Estimates of the number of people who died range | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
from hundreds to thousands, after troops cleared the square following | :15:50. | :15:51. | |
weeks of protests for political reform and democracy in 1989. | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
People have been marking the anniversary in Hong Kong and Taiwan, | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
and there've been demonstrations outside some Chinese embassies. | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
But in recent weeks the authorities have detained dozens of activists | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
in Beijing to ensure their silence, from where Celia Hatton now reports. | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
Tiananmen Square was thick with armed police today. The past week, | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
automatic weapons and paramilitary vehicles have become a common sight | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
on the streets of Beijing. The government is desperate to stop | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
history repeating itself. 25 years ago, China's Communist leaders were | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
caught off-guard by the unwavering demands of student protest is | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
camping in Tiananmen Square. Using bullets and tanks, soldiers finally | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
regained control of the area. Hundreds were thought to have died. | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
On this sensitive anniversary, nothing is left to chance. A recent | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
police training grill -- drill was billed as an anti-terrorism | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
exercise. These fake protest is looked a lot like the students from | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
decades ago. -- protesters. Even away from the square there is a | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
heightened security presence. The 4th of June is not mentioned in the | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
newspapers and is not on TV. It has effectively been raised from the | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
public consciousness. Even those with clear memories of 1989 have | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
mixed feeling about the legacy. This man serve 15 years in prison after | :17:26. | :17:32. | |
setting fire to a military tank. I was angry because ordinary people | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
were getting killed. At first, the soldiers used rubber bullets, but | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
then they switched to real ones. He would never participate in another | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
protest. He suffered too much. But he is optimistic others will take | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
his place. There are still people who will take to the streets to | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
fight for change. Not everybody cares only about money. | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
Now a major tourist attraction, it is unlikely Tiananmen Square would | :17:59. | :18:07. | |
host any future protest as constant security virtually guarantees it. | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
For those who remember the bloody events of June, 1989, this place is | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
now a symbol of the lengths that the Chinese Communist Party will go to | :18:16. | :18:16. | |
to stay in power. Tesco, Britain's largest supermarket | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
chain, has seen a fall in sales of 3.7% in the first quarter | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
of the financial year. It's the third successive period | :18:24. | :18:25. | |
of disappointing results with the company facing increasing | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
competition from discount The Tesco Chief Executive Philip | :18:29. | :18:29. | |
Clarke says trading would remain challenging | :18:30. | :18:37. | |
"throughout the coming quarters". Here's our Business | :18:38. | :18:38. | |
correspondent Emma Simpson. Tesco, the biggest UK grocer by a | :18:39. | :18:54. | |
mile, but few of us are doing this. Sales are slowing, and today the | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
picture got worse, despite a ?1 billion plan to revitalise the | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
business. These are the worst sales numbers that Tesco has seen for the | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
last complete year, and it's clear the turnaround plan is not working | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
yet and we have the hopes that it will turn everything ran because it | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
is not dealing the idea of being everything to everyone. It is the | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
turnaround plan that is causing some of the pain. Price cuts have led to | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
less money going through the tills, and it's also had to revamp shops, | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
which has disrupted sales. Tesco has more of these huge stores than | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
anyone else but here is the big problem, they are not doing as much | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
business as they used to. Will these make overs do the trick? Tesco think | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
so, and persuading shoppers back into the aisles is vital, but the | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
competition has never been tougher, and Tesco are caught in the middle | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
and continued to be squeezed. All the big supermarkets are finding it | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
difficult to grow. Partly because discounters are stealing customers. | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
So too are Waitrose at the premium end. Tesco are caught in between. | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
Share is now back to where it was a decade ago, and there is no quick | :20:11. | :20:17. | |
fix -- their market share. It's like turning a supertanker around and it | :20:18. | :20:19. | |
will take time to reverse the fortunes. International convenience, | :20:20. | :20:26. | |
online, digital, lots of decent initiatives and good decisions being | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
made, but sadly the Tesco, the bulk of the business is supermarkets in | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
the UK which is proving a tougher nut to crack -- but sadly for Tesco. | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
The question is, how long will it take? Tesco warned it could be | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
months before there is improvement in its sales. It may still make | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
billions in profit, but this once invincible juggernaut is now under | :20:49. | :20:49. | |
pressure. The crisis in Ukraine is dominating | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
a day of diplomacy in Europe. President Obama met | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
the new Ukrainian president in Poland this morning, and paid | :20:56. | :20:57. | |
tribute to what he called Ukraine's Later today, | :20:58. | :20:59. | |
the G7 summit gets underway in Brussels, with leaders from the | :21:00. | :21:08. | |
world's most advanced economies. But for the first time | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
since 1997 Russia has been excluded because of its annexation | :21:12. | :21:13. | |
of Crimea from Ukraine. Our Europe Correspondent Matthew | :21:14. | :21:15. | |
Price joins us from Brussels. Is there a sense that the G-7, as it | :21:16. | :21:25. | |
is now, is united on how to best deal with Russia after the recent | :21:26. | :21:32. | |
events in Ukraine? I think there is, apply. Think back a couple of months | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
ago, all the talk was about sanctions -- I think there is, | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
actually. They said they would deliver against Russia because of | :21:41. | :21:43. | |
the actions in Ukraine. There are still the possibility of more | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
sanctions but they won't talk about those today. They certainly won't be | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
increasing the sanctions. What they believe they have at the moment is a | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
window of opportunity with Russia and they believe that the stance | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
from Moscow is perhaps not positive, but less negative at the moment. | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
Some signs they have pulled back some troops from the Russian border | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
with Ukraine, and there is not a Russian condemnation of the recent | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
presidential election process in Ukraine itself. I think what we will | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
see this evening, when they focus on foreign policy matters, therefore | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
specifically on Ukraine, Syria will be in the mix, but Ukraine is the | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
big one at the moment. They are going to be looking at how they | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
might persuade Vladimir Putin to go about publicly accepting the new | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
president of Ukraine, reaching out to the president. As you have said, | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
President Putin is not coming here because Russia was expelled from the | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
G8 which is why this summit was hastily arranged, but tomorrow David | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
Cameron and Francoise Hollande are expected to meet Vladimir Putin in | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
Russia, and presumably they will take some pretty strong messages | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
from this summit with them about what they believe President Putin | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
has to do next in order to start rehabilitating himself in their | :22:56. | :22:56. | |
eyes. Thank you, Matthew. British police investigating | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
the disappearance of Madeleine McCann have resumed their search | :23:02. | :23:02. | |
in the resort in Portugal, where Police have brought | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
in ground penetrating radar to the site of scrubland | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
in Praia da Luz on the Algarve. Officers have been granted | :23:10. | :23:17. | |
permission to check two other sites, one even closer to | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
the apartment where the McCann The police have been told they will | :23:21. | :23:22. | |
be able to continue searching beyond Friday, which was earlier set | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
as the deadline. The coroner into the inquest of the | :23:27. | :23:38. | |
shooting of Mark Duggan has published a series of concerns about | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
the case. He criticised the way the shooting was investigated. He also | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
said that officers had created a perception of collusion by writing | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
complete statements in a room together three days later. | :23:51. | :23:58. | |
They revolutionised the way thousands of people lived | :23:59. | :24:00. | |
when they were first built 100 years ago, but the Garden City is moving | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
Five finalists have been chosen in a competition to design a | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
'visionary and economically viable' new Garden City in a bid to solve | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
Ideas range from a 48,000 home scheme on the North Kent coast, to | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
an 'arc' of Garden Cities stretching from Oxford to Felixstowe. | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
Could this be the site of a new garden city? This peninsular in Kent | :24:19. | :24:32. | |
is one of the areas on a short list. It's a competition to find a plan | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
that is inspiring, economically viable and. Shelter, the housing | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
charity, is behind the scheme -- viable and popular. There would be | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
shared ownership, cites the self builds, a harbour with places for | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
houseboats -- a site for self builds. The idea is to transform | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
this rather muddy and neglected part of the country into a completely new | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
town. 36,000 people could live in 15,000 new houses. The scale will be | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
similar to the classic Garden cities of the past like Letchworth and | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
Welwyn, but how do we define a garden city in the 21st century? And | :25:14. | :25:16. | |
is it even possible to renew the concept? The garden city is a | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
combination of creating great places through jobs, housing and also | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
really important community benefits, places where you can have something | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
to do and enjoy. Of course, there is a huge difference between having a | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
great idea for a garden city and actually getting one established. | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
Here on the Medway estuary or anywhere else. One of the big | :25:41. | :25:43. | |
questions is whether enough local enthusiasm can be generated to | :25:44. | :25:45. | |
overcome all of the likely obstacles. Because garden cities | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
sound pleasant enough, until real development plans start being | :25:52. | :25:54. | |
considered by local people in real locations. Obviously we don't know | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
any detail at the present moment. We would be happy with the fact it is | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
being built on Brownfield land as opposed to green land, but we're not | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
sure of the area being talked about. But we would have concern | :26:10. | :26:11. | |
over things like flooding here on the Medway because the sea level | :26:12. | :26:19. | |
rises. As well as the planning Kent, there are four other finalists | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
in contention with a winner announced in September -- this plan | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
in Kent. The government is also running a separate programme to | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
identify ideas and with long delays likely between any plans being | :26:32. | :26:33. | |
approved and new garden cities actually being built. | :26:34. | :26:40. | |
This week, we're commemorating the 70th anniversary of D-Day, | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
the biggest seaborne invasion the world has ever seen when allied | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
forces landed on the coast of France on the 6th of June 1944. Crucial | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
to the success of the mission was the airborne | :26:54. | :26:55. | |
assault, and this was spearheaded by the C-47 Dakota plane. 900 | :26:56. | :26:58. | |
of the aircraft dropped thousands of allied paratroopers | :26:59. | :27:00. | |
Their job was to protect the men on the beaches from German | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
Well, to remember their contribution, eight surviving | :27:07. | :27:09. | |
Dakotas took to the skies today, as Duncan Kennedy reports. | :27:10. | :27:17. | |
It was the plane that helped make D-Day possible. The Dakota once | :27:18. | :27:25. | |
again flying over southern England. A plane that became the airborne | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
workhorse of operation overlord. Some of them I had known since the | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
brigade had formed. 94-year-old Maurice Bell parachuted out of many | :27:35. | :27:41. | |
Dakotas and recalls a fine but unforgiving aircraft, especially | :27:42. | :27:47. | |
during its unpressurised dives. I have seen strong, brave men | :27:48. | :27:52. | |
screaming in pain. That was the only problem we had with the Dakota. It | :27:53. | :27:55. | |
served us so well. I could worship it. I think it saved our lives. Each | :27:56. | :28:01. | |
plane carries special invasion markings. On D-Day, the plane told | :28:02. | :28:07. | |
across from bases from southern England. Americans, British and | :28:08. | :28:11. | |
Canadians all flew in behind German lines before dropping of thousands | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
of paratroopers. In many ways, the Dakota was the perfect aircraft in | :28:17. | :28:19. | |
the job. The right size, the right speed and reliable -- for the job. | :28:20. | :28:24. | |
And arguably, without it, D-Day might have gone very differently. | :28:25. | :28:30. | |
Today's event is one of the biggest peacetime gatherings of the Dakota. | :28:31. | :28:34. | |
11,000 were made in World War II, becoming an aircraft that D-Day | :28:35. | :28:39. | |
built their entire plans around. Eisenhower said one of four things | :28:40. | :28:46. | |
that have won the war, the atom bomb, the bazooka, and it was | :28:47. | :28:52. | |
greatly loved by those who fluid. Many wartime nations had iconic | :28:53. | :28:59. | |
aircraft, but the Dakota has a few aeronautical peers. From transport | :29:00. | :29:01. | |
to troop carrier, it was a monumental plane for its time. | :29:02. | :29:09. | |
A bit unsettled with an area of low pressure that was forecast a few | :29:10. | :29:20. | |
days ago. Skies like this, led, grey skies with outbreaks of rain across | :29:21. | :29:25. | |
the whole country and some of the rain will be quite heavy, | :29:26. | :29:28. | |
particularly through the Midlands. Here is the culprit, the air of -- | :29:29. | :29:32. | |
area of low pressure which has moved up from the south and is slowly | :29:33. | :29:37. | |
pushing northwards and eastwards. The rain moves up from the south and | :29:38. | :29:40. | |
gradually pivots around, so many areas could see a lot of rain as the | :29:41. | :29:45. | |
day wears on, particularly south Wales, through the Midlands and into | :29:46. | :29:48. | |
southern and eastern Scotland. This is the picture through the | :29:49. | :29:52. | |
afternoon. Heavy bursts mixed in, but drier interludes. It won't be | :29:53. | :29:56. | |
persistent rain everywhere. In Scotland, a lot of low cloud and sea | :29:57. | :30:01. | |
Falk and heavy rainfall eastern Scotland -- sea fog. Dry in Northern | :30:02. | :30:08. | |
Ireland with one or two showers around. Towards much of northern | :30:09. | :30:09. | |
England, Ireland with one or two showers | :30:10. | :30:11. | |
around. Towards the Midlands, south Wales, a case of rain on and off and | :30:12. | :30:16. | |
some heavy bursts mixed in. Some dry interludes and we might see some | :30:17. | :30:20. | |
sunny spells around which might push temperatures to 14 or 15 but it will | :30:21. | :30:25. | |
feel chilly elsewhere. It is windy here, particularly for Cornwall, | :30:26. | :30:28. | |
Devon and through the English Channel. If we run the sequence to | :30:29. | :30:33. | |
this evening and overnight, we the rain pivoting round and becoming | :30:34. | :30:36. | |
confined towards the north and east of the new K -- we can see the rain. | :30:37. | :30:40. | |
There is some clear spells coming and one or two chilly spells but | :30:41. | :30:47. | |
with cloud and rain it will be milder. Going into Thursday, rather | :30:48. | :30:53. | |
cloudy, outbreaks of rain continuing across Scotland and northern and | :30:54. | :30:55. | |
eastern England and slowly the rain will be confined in the North with | :30:56. | :30:59. | |
brighter skies moving in across England and Wales. And improving | :31:00. | :31:02. | |
picture. One or two showers, but warm in the sunshine, maybe 21 | :31:03. | :31:08. | |
Celsius. As we head towards the end of the week we import some warm and | :31:09. | :31:12. | |
humid air from the continent. Some areas seeing sunshine but it could | :31:13. | :31:15. | |
also spark off summer thunderstorms. For Friday, much of | :31:16. | :31:21. | |
the country, central, southern and eastern parts seen the best of the | :31:22. | :31:25. | |
dry weather. Feeling warm and muddy with temperatures in the 20s. Into | :31:26. | :31:33. | |
the weekend, it looks like it will stay fairly humid, quite warm in the | :31:34. | :31:37. | |
sunshine, but an increasing chance of showers or thunderstorms, | :31:38. | :31:41. | |
particularly on Saturday as the shower risks diminishes on Sunday. | :31:42. | :31:45. | |
Now a reminder of our top story this lunchtime: | :31:46. | :31:51. | |
The Queen has set out the coalition's final legislative plans | :31:52. | :31:57. | |
before the general election. It includes a big pension shake-up. | :31:58. | :31:59. |