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Just under two days to go before the Independence referendum - | :00:07. | :00:09. | |
the 'Yes' campaign pours scorn on a Westminster pledge | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown calls on Scots to protect | :00:14. | :00:20. | |
key services by voting No on Thursday. | :00:21. | :00:29. | |
Do you think we would ever stand by and allow the NHS to be privatised | :00:30. | :00:36. | |
or cut in Scotland, do you think we would ever allow the NHS not to have | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
the powers in Scotland to protect itself? No! | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
Scotland's Deputy First Minister accuses the 'No' campaign of | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
The only guarantee of the powers we need to protect the health service, | :00:48. | :00:57. | |
create jobs, make sure we do not get Tory governments we did not vote | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
for, is to vote macro one. -- is to vote yes. | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
The US has carried out its first air strikes against | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
Islamic State militants, just outside | :01:13. | :01:13. | |
South Yorkshire's Police and Crime Commissioner Shaun Wright | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
resigns over the Rotherham child abuse scandal. | :01:19. | :01:19. | |
Nearly two weeks after devastating floods, | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
200 people are dead and many are still missing. | :01:23. | :01:35. | |
Everywhere we go, buildings flattened, roads washed away. At | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
what is most striking is the amount of anger and that is becoming a | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
backlash against the authorities -- at what is. | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
How the ?5 million raised by cancer victim Stephen Sutton | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
will help others fighting the disease. | :01:52. | :01:53. | |
A new way to pay on public transport - many debit and | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
And the trial opens of a teenage boy accused of shooting dead | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
Good afternoon, welcome to Edinburgh. | :02:02. | :02:32. | |
Yes campaigners in the Scottish referendum have poured scorn on | :02:33. | :02:34. | |
a pledge signed by the leaders of the three main Westminster parties | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
to grant Scotland new devolved powers, | :02:38. | :02:39. | |
David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg have promised | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
"extensive new powers" for the Scottish Parliament, | :02:44. | :02:45. | |
and to preserve the Barnett formula, | :02:46. | :02:46. | |
which determines the distribution of public spending around the UK. | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
The Yes campaign say the only way to guarantee Scotland | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
gets the powers it needs is to vote for independence. | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
In a moment, we'll have a report from the Yes campaign. | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
But first, our political correspondent, Iain Watson, | :03:01. | :03:02. | |
reports on the Better Together campaign. | :03:03. | :03:10. | |
Two days until the Scottish referendum and it is too close to | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
call, two former chancellors were trying to convince Labour voters not | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
to be tempted it independence. Gordon Brown said that spending on | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
the NHS in Scotland could be protect it even if a future Conservative | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
government in Westminster wanted to cut it. | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
Do you think we, the Labour Party who created the health service, who | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
funded the National Health Service, who raised taxes in the United | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
Kingdom to pay for the National Health Service, do you think we | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
would ever stand by and allow the NHS to be privatised or cut in | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
Scotland? Do you think we would ever allow the NHS not to have the powers | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
in Scotland to protect itself? No! The No campaign came to Clydebank, a | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
traditional Labour town which backed the SNP at the last elections, to | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
prevent the drift towards independence in areas like this. | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg came closed to setting out a | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
pledge almost in blood for this pledge. | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
The party leaders say the Scottish Parliament is permanent and with | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
extensive new powers at the UK will share resources across all four | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
nations and the Barnett formula will continue. | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
This complex formula began in the 1970s and results in Scotland | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
spending more per head on public services than England. But at | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
Westminster, there are fears that the price of keeping Scotland in the | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
UK might be too high. If Scotland is to have its own | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
tax-raising powers and if they can choose their own level of income | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
tax, of course we in England would want to choose our level. Not | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
necessarily the same as Scotland, we do not need Scottish MPs helping us | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
make that decision. In Scotland, the former Liberal | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
Democrat leader took to the trail, he feels No should have been more | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
positive sooner. It was essential that the critical | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
searching questions were asked on currency for example. And NATO, and | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
defence. These are the big questions. And here we are 48 hours | :05:28. | :05:36. | |
before polling day and nobody is saying that we have got definitive | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
answers. Many of the shipyards have gone from | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
the Clydeside but the No campaign thinks voters in areas like this | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
could decide the result of Thursday's election. | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
Well, the "Yes" campaign have described the pledge as | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
an "insult" to voters. Scotland's First Minister, Alex Salmond, | :05:55. | :05:56. | |
dismissed the pledge as a last-minute desperate offer | :05:57. | :05:58. | |
With the latest from the campaign, our Scotland correspondent, | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
No missing the message at this engineering firm on the Clyde, they | :06:02. | :06:17. | |
are writing it on fire. Around 60 people work at this yard in Renfrew | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
for the energy industry and these politicians want their boats. | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
We have to make sure we use the economic levers of Independence -- | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
votes. To incentivise companies to invest. To invest in manufacturing | :06:33. | :06:41. | |
processes and to improve employment. Obligingly, the man making sparks | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
agreed. I will be voting Yes because I want | :06:46. | :06:53. | |
Scotland to be decided by the Scottish people and my job will not | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
change a Watt, it might even get better. | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
We live in a Scotland that is socially staffed with unemployment, | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
with damp housing... The Yes campaign is not just about | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
the SNP, the left wing firebrand Tommy Sheridan has put a perjury | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
conviction behind him to campaign for an independent Scotland. | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
Scotland will not be a socialist independent country, it will be a | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
fairer and more equal country, but the future in relation to what we | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
can do in that independent country will become the type of socialist | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
country we want. Campaigners are warning about health | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
already controlled from Edinburgh. Confidential papers that have been | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
passed to the BBC suggest it is facing a huge funding gap. | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
We have policy control over it but if we leave ourselves at the mercy | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
of Westminster cuts and we know further cuts coming from | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
Westminster, it will get harder and harder for any Scottish governments | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
to protect the things that matter. For some campaigners on both sides, | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
the arguments are clear and the cheese -- and the choice is obvious. | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
In these final hours, both campaigns are concentrating on the undecided, | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
those who have still to make up their minds. | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
So what are the voters, especially the undecided, making of | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
Our correspondent Christian Fraser is in Fraserburgh, | :08:23. | :08:24. | |
on the North East coast of Scotland, to guage opinion. | :08:25. | :08:33. | |
We are in Fraserburgh today, a fishing industry -- the fishing | :08:34. | :08:42. | |
industry fighter we important, but there are a lot of questions. What | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
would their share of the UK quoted beat in an independent Scotland and | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
where would these trawlers go in the North Sea in the fishing grounds are | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
divided? 20 to ponder for the traders early this morning at the | :08:57. | :09:04. | |
fish market. -- plenty. Around 40,000 tonnes of fish landed | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
here every year, ?40,000 worth of business done in two hours, it is | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
fast and furious. What do the people who come here think about the | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
possibility of independence? Some things are good and some things | :09:20. | :09:27. | |
are not good. I am not voting. I am not going to vote. It is my | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
right not to vote. You do not believe in the | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
politicians? One is as bad as another, to be honest. | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
So if the SNP did secure an independent Scotland, what would you | :09:44. | :09:44. | |
want to see? More fish quotas in Scotland because | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
the sea is full of fish. It depends what happens with fish. A lot of | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
this is going to England. So the exports, whether you are a | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
member of the European union? Yes, it will go South, the fish and | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
the prawns will go abroad. We can handle that being Scotland but I am | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
not sure about the fish because the English will import them more and | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
more, not from Scotland. What would you hope for in | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
independence? I am saying nothing. Yes, not so much a No vote as no | :10:24. | :10:31. | |
confidence in either side of the debate, so tough have conditions | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
been for fishermen here. Alex Salmond says he will restore the | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
fishing industry to be key alongside oil and whiskey, they will be able | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
to negotiate like Denmark and Ireland, he says. But Westminster | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
says when it comes to hard fought negotiations over quotas, we are | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
better negotiating together. Thank you very much. Let's assess | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
everything so far this morning. In the last hour, striking comments | :10:57. | :11:10. | |
from the former Prime Minister Gordon Brown. | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
This referendum may hinge on what happens to the seemingly crumbling | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
Labour vote and what we have seen from Gordon Brown in the last 30 | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
minutes is a desperate attempt to claw back that Labour vote from the | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
brink, to stop those droves of Labour supporters is appearing into | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
the arms of the Yes campaign. By citing what is Labour's most emotive | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
and iconic policy, the NHS, Gordon Brown is playing the NHS card to | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
trump the independence card by saying, only if Scots remain part of | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
the UK will be NHS be safe in Scotland and the SNP are the enemies | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
of that. They could have increased funding for the NHS but they chose | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
not to do that. And it was his language, this was like Gordon Brown | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
of 15, 20 years ago. A speech in the fiery rhetoric of traditional Labour | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
values to resonate in Labour's Scottish heartlands. The SNP say | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
this is part of a panic project, a last minute and desperate effort by | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
the No campaign and the only way to save at the NHS and services is for | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
Scotland to have full control of their finances. But the one thing | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
you can say is true is that Alistair Darling is no longer leader of the | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
No campaign, it is not Ed Miliband and David Cameron, it is Gordon | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
round, he has been charged with rescuing the Labour vote and trying | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
to save the union. Thank you very much, very | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
interesting. And also, interesting to point this out. | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
With just two days to go before Scotland votes, | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
tonight, David Dimbleby holds one-on-one interviews | :12:58. | :12:58. | |
with the former Prime Minister Gordon Brown | :12:59. | :13:00. | |
and Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond, | :13:01. | :13:02. | |
Scotland Decides - The Dimbleby Interviews | :13:03. | :13:04. | |
The US has carried out its first air strike against the so-called | :13:05. | :13:12. | |
American warplanes hit targets in the north of the country | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
and close to Baghdad, in direct support of Iraqi troops. | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
It comes five days after the US President Barack Obama | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
outlined his plan to "degrade and ultimately destroy" IS. | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
Our Middle East correspondent, Jim Muir, reports. | :13:27. | :13:36. | |
Cutting through the skies of northern Iraq at dawn, American jets | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
providing a cover for the latest offensive against ISPs -ish and is. | :13:42. | :13:48. | |
-- air cover. Kurdish forces are preparing for action down below. -- | :13:49. | :13:56. | |
against IS forces. They and the Jets were just keeping watch this time. | :13:57. | :14:03. | |
On the ground, the firepower was coming from the Kurds. | :14:04. | :14:11. | |
This is the objective, a village reading to Mosul beyond the horizon. | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
The area seized by IS militants last month. Kurdish ground forces had | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
advanced B and their old lines to move in on the village after the | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
bombardment. -- had advanced from their old lines. You can see clearly | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
how it works, Americans in this guide providing reconnaissance and | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
possibly air strikes, Kurdish forces bombarding with tanks and rockets. | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
Despite that, the ground forces repairing to move on, we gaining the | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
ground they lost to Islamic State last month is proving hard. | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
-- regaining. On the other side Mosul, Kurdish forces had been | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
pressing forward on another front at Zumar, they captured Mosul Dam a | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
month ago but pushing further has been slow. | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
The militants have a good technique, he says, they disappear and launch | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
surprise attacks and leave many arms behind so we have to be very | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
careful. It takes information and planning to drive them out. | :15:21. | :15:28. | |
The Kurds keep up the attack, but the progress they have made | :15:29. | :15:38. | |
illustrates how hard it will be. With me now is our security | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
correspondent Gordon Corera. What is the significance of these air | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
strikes? I think the strike near Baghdad is insignificant. It is the | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
first of the new air strikes conducted by the US, which are not | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
just about protecting Americans or doing immediate humanitarian | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
assistance, but actually trying to destroy and degrade the so-called | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
Islamic State, and actually trying to take them on directly, | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
militarily. It is the first under these new orders from President | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
Obama, but it may not be the last, and it is the first to happen near | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
Baghdad, rather than in the north of the country. What is the latest we | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
have on the British hostage still held? This is the taxi driver from | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
Salford. He was taken when he went into Syria as part of an aid convoy. | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
There are reports he was picked up almost immediately after he went | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
over the border into Syria, suggesting perhaps some kind of | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
tip-off. It would appear there has been an argument between and within | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
jihadist groups about whether to hold him, precisely because he had | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
gone in as part of an aid convoy, to try to help people. But he was held, | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
obviously, and the Foreign Secretary yesterday said that they have no | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
information about where he is at the moment, which leaves them with very | :16:55. | :17:01. | |
few options. South Yorkshire's police and crime | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
commissioner has bowed to pressure over the Rotherham sexual | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
exploitation scandal and announced his resignation. 1400 children were | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
abused in the town over many years. In a statement, Shaun Wright, who | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
was the councillor in charge, said the calls for him to quit was | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
distracting attention from the victims. He is the police and crime | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
commissioner nobody wanted. For years, he was the councillor | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
responsible for children's services in Rotherham, wild child sexual | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
abuse was rife in the town. You did not do anything, children were | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
abused, you were in post, will you resign? I am not resigning as South | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
Yorkshire Police commissioner. When the scale of the scandal was exposed | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
last month, there were calls for him to resign. I think he has real | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
questions to answer, and I think you should heed those calls. But the | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
Police Commissioner refused to budge and got a humiliating public | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
dressing down in Parliament. What you have revealed yourself to be | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
today it is a charlatan, whose love of office and salary makes you a | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
disgrace. But the final straw came last week, when the people of | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
Rotherham confronted him at a public meeting. You are a disgrace, mate. | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
If I had a gun, I would shoot you. I have got to live with this, and what | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
have you done? You have still got your job, you should stand down! | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
Today, he finally went, saying in a statement... So, Mr Wright will not | :18:36. | :18:45. | |
be returning to his office here in Barnsley. But what this episode | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
highlights is the fact that elected police and crime commissioners | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
cannot be sacked. The law on that will now be looked at again. | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
The rate of inflation dropped last month, partly because of falling | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
petrol prices and competition between supermarkets. It fell from | :19:06. | :19:14. | |
1.6% in July to 1.5% in August. Other figures showed that house | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
prices in the UK rose by more than 11% in the year to July. | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
Police in Thailand investigating the deaths of two British tourists on | :19:25. | :19:26. | |
the island of Koh Tao say they are focusing their investigation on the | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
local Burmese migrant community. David Miller from Jersey and Hannah | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
Witheridge from Norfolk were beaten to death. Detectives have ruled out | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
other British tourists as suspects but want to speak to a friend of Mr | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
Miller's, who left the island yesterday. Our correspondent | :19:40. | :19:41. | |
Jonathan Head sent this report from Koh Tao. | :19:42. | :20:01. | |
The presence of the police, more than 70 officers at one point, has | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
been visible. They have been questioning Burnley is migrants, who | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
worked in many of the resorts, and taking DNA samples, convinced they | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
will find the culprit here. They also have some closed-circuit CCTV | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
pictures, showing the couple after they left a beach-side bar just | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
before they were killed, and another man police believe may have been | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
following them. There is now strong pressure to solve this case quickly. | :20:28. | :20:35. | |
Thailand's crew leader and now Prime Minister announced that he ordered | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
more police to the island to hunt down the perpetrators. People just | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
cannot accept this, he said. David Millar and Hannah Witheridge had | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
been part of the great globetrotting movement of young people travelling | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
the world. They had met for the first time on Koh Tao. This has to | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
be the most unlikely place you would expect to see a crime like this, and | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
that of course is what the locals are hoping, that it is just a | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
ghastly one-off, and that once it is solved, they will be able to recover | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
the laid-back vibe which has brought so many thousands to visit over the | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
years. Jonathan Head, BBC News, Koh Tao, Thailand. | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
The three main Westminster parties have pledged to transfer extensive | :21:18. | :21:28. | |
powers to Scotland if there is a no vote this week. | :21:29. | :21:29. | |
An exclusive interview with the mother of Stephen Sutton - the | :21:30. | :21:37. | |
teenage cancer sufferer who raised nearly ?5 million for charity. | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
Later on BBC London News we look at revenge evictions. And we look to | :21:43. | :21:52. | |
one author inspired by the art of taxidermy. That is all coming up in | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
15 minutes. At least 200 people have died | :21:56. | :21:57. | |
and many are still missing in Indian-administered Kashmir | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
nearly two weeks Thousands | :22:03. | :22:04. | |
of people are still thought to be stranded and there are fears | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
of disease spreading as criticism Andrew North has been to | :22:10. | :22:11. | |
the worst-hit area of Srinagar, The centre of Srinagar after | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
its worst flood in living memory. Some are calling it | :22:16. | :22:22. | |
Kashmir's Katrina. The government was | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
totally overwhelmed. We find a way in on foot | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
as the waters begin to recede. It is just incredible | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
the devastation around here, this whole road has been completely | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
washed away. And up ahead, | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
I'm hearing things are even worse. This was once | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
a better-off neighbourhood. Many have lost everything | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
and Mohammed Dar says he feels We made a makeshift bridge ours | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
elves and we have been trying to Nobody came to help us - | :22:56. | :23:05. | |
you are the first person from The centre of Srinagar has been | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
utterly destroyed by this flood. Everywhere we go we find buildings | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
flattened, roads washed away. But what is most striking | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
about this disaster is the amount of anger there is and increasingly, | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
that is becoming a backlash After decades of strife between | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
Kashmir's Muslim majority and the government, the flood has brought | :23:26. | :23:32. | |
old resentments back to the surface. We have not, until this date, | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
until this time, we have not seen They dropped water bottles | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
and biscuits - they were expired. More aid is starting to come in, | :23:44. | :23:55. | |
like this mobile drinking water And the authorities insist | :23:56. | :24:07. | |
they are doing all they can. Yet in the heart of this historic | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
city it's not the government running the relief and recovery effort, | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
but the people themselves. Andrew North, BBC News, | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
in central Srinagar. Health experts are calling | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
for a drastic reduction in the amount of sugar in our diets | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
to help tackle tooth decay. Tooth decay among adults and | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
children is described as one of the Researchers say the cause is | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
a rise in sugar consumption, and want sugar to make up no more | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
than 3% of our daily energy intake. For many people, | :24:43. | :24:50. | |
getting away on holiday this summer was made difficult by delays | :24:51. | :24:52. | |
at the Passport Agency. Now, a group | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
of MPs says those who were left out The Home Affairs Select Committee | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
says there was a "complete management failure" at the | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
Passport Agency. The Government says it is reviewing | :25:04. | :25:05. | |
the future of the service. Our home affairs correspondent | :25:06. | :25:08. | |
Tom Symonds reports. As the requests filed up during what | :25:09. | :25:32. | |
MPs described as a summer of chaos, thousands stumped up to speed up the | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
process. Today's report says they should now be compensated. The delay | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
in getting this passport nearly ruined a holiday Chris and his wife | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
had put off for years while starting a business. A villa was waiting on a | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
Spanish island, and he was forced to call his MP to break the deadlock. | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
As far as compensation is concerned, it would be very nice to have it, | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
but I would much rather they spend the money sorting out the system so | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
that other people do not have to go through what we went through. The | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
Passport Office is an executive agency, split off from the | :26:06. | :26:07. | |
Government deliberately to make sure that it does it's one job of making | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
sure you have got a passport when you need one. But this report says | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
there was complete management failure over the summer. It | :26:16. | :26:17. | |
recommends the Government takes back control. One reason for the queues, | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
according to MPs, was the decision to move the processors processing of | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
overseas applications back to the UK, putting more pressure on the | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
service. They are angry that applicants are charged more for a | :26:32. | :26:34. | |
passport than it costs to supply one. The office has made a surplus | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
of ?124 million, which means they are making a profit out of their own | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
citizens. I think that it should be budget no,, and if they make the | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
money, they should invest it back in the service. After the Government | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
stepped in to avert the political risk of ruined summer holidays, the | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
backlog of passport applications fell from half a million to 90,000. | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
Ministers are now considering the long-term future of the service. | :27:03. | :27:05. | |
Stephen Sutton, the 19-year-old whose battle against cancer touched | :27:06. | :27:08. | |
hearts with his bucket list of things to do before he died, | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
has left a legacy worth nearly ?5 million to the Teenage Cancer Trust. | :27:13. | :27:15. | |
Nearly ?3 million will be invested in specialist cancer units | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
Just over ?1 million will be spent on training professionals, | :27:19. | :27:24. | |
Half a million pounds will go towards improving | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
Stephen's mother, Jane, talking exclusively to the BBC, | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
told our correspondent Sian Lloyd that she was "immensely proud" | :27:35. | :27:37. | |
I do not think we actually realised until there had been so many | :27:38. | :27:52. | |
pictures published, that he was actually doing a thumbs up in all of | :27:53. | :27:58. | |
them. But then, in some ways, I am not surprised about that, because | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
even as a child, Stephen was always doing something jokey in a | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
photograph. Four months after her son's death, Jayne Nisbet king for | :28:09. | :28:11. | |
the first time about his remarkable story. Stephen Sutton's thumbs up | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
campaign went global after posting this photo. It inspired people to | :28:17. | :28:22. | |
donate ?5 million to the Teenage Cancer Trust. It is extremely | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
difficult to see your child going through cancer. But the fact that | :28:27. | :28:32. | |
Stephen was genuinely happy with what he was doing... He always used | :28:33. | :28:36. | |
to say, it was always about the fun in fundraising, and that is why he | :28:37. | :28:41. | |
was happy, he was having great fun. At the same time, he was just | :28:42. | :28:44. | |
raising all this money to help young people. When Stephen was diagnosed | :28:45. | :28:50. | |
with bowel cancer aged 15, he wrote a bucket list of 46 things he wanted | :28:51. | :28:56. | |
to do. His goal soon switched to fundraising, and through social | :28:57. | :28:59. | |
media, he reached out to people from all walks of life. Stephen was | :29:00. | :29:04. | |
treated at three Teenage Cancer Trust units in Birmingham. His | :29:05. | :29:09. | |
legacy will fund two new centres like this one. For every young | :29:10. | :29:14. | |
person that we help at the moment, there is another one we can't. That | :29:15. | :29:18. | |
needs to change. Because of Stephen and all of his supporters, we will | :29:19. | :29:22. | |
be much more confident about making sure we can help everyone sooner. | :29:23. | :29:28. | |
Six existing units will be improved, including this ward in Liverpool, | :29:29. | :29:31. | |
where facilities need to be updated. It makes me so proud, yes, | :29:32. | :29:36. | |
yes, to know that Stephen will continue to help so many young | :29:37. | :29:39. | |
people who are diagnosed with cancer in the future, and give so many | :29:40. | :29:44. | |
young people the chance to have the same opportunities as Stephen did. | :29:45. | :29:47. | |
Stephen Sutton lived life to the full. His legacy should help other | :29:48. | :29:51. | |
young cancer patient reach their potential. | :29:52. | :29:54. | |
Time for a look at the weather - here's Nina Ridge. | :29:55. | :30:02. | |
It was another foggy start to the day to day, and the next couple of | :30:03. | :30:09. | |
days will continue to have these misty, murky mornings. There will be | :30:10. | :30:16. | |
some decent temperatures in the sunshine. The satellite picture | :30:17. | :30:20. | |
shows the sunshine breaking through four southern counties of England | :30:21. | :30:25. | |
and across Wales. But there is more cloud for eastern Scotland and | :30:26. | :30:27. | |
north-east England. At four o'clock this afternoon, mainly fine and dry | :30:28. | :30:33. | |
to the south-west. The small risk of an afternoon show here. Most places | :30:34. | :30:40. | |
will miss them. Again, some cloud in the Midlands, and the small chance | :30:41. | :30:45. | |
of a shower. Across Northern Ireland, some brighter skies down to | :30:46. | :30:48. | |
the south and the east. For Scotland, with some patchy cloud | :30:49. | :30:54. | |
around, the odd light shower. Cooler and cloudy along the Aberdeenshire | :30:55. | :30:58. | |
coast line. Some rain affecting Shetland. This evening and overnight | :30:59. | :31:03. | |
tonight, watch out for the return of the mist and Merck coming back in | :31:04. | :31:12. | |
from the east. Temperatures, similar to the last couple of mornings. So, | :31:13. | :31:19. | |
things tomorrow will be brightening up, especially along the south | :31:20. | :31:22. | |
coast, through parts of Wales and into the north-west. But it does | :31:23. | :31:27. | |
look like that cloud will continue to affect eastern Scotland and | :31:28. | :31:30. | |
north-east England, producing some patchy, light rain and drizzle. But | :31:31. | :31:37. | |
when we come into the sunshine, we are up in two the mid-20s. Later on | :31:38. | :31:43. | |
in the day, the risk of some showers affecting the south-west corner. We | :31:44. | :31:48. | |
will be watching out for showers on Thursday and Friday as well, tied in | :31:49. | :31:52. | |
with that low pressure sitting in the Bay of Biscay. It looks likely | :31:53. | :31:57. | |
that there could be some showers for England and Wales during the day on | :31:58. | :31:59. | |
Thursday. Thunderstorms are possible. Still some mist and low | :32:00. | :32:07. | |
cloud for the north-east of England as well as eastern Scotland. | :32:08. | :32:15. | |
Increasingly humid on Thursday. Those showers potentially are with | :32:16. | :32:18. | |
us on Friday, pushing their way northwards. Further north, we are | :32:19. | :32:25. | |
more likely to stay dry, if a little bit overcast at times. More details | :32:26. | :32:26. | |
online. Now a reminder | :32:27. | :32:30. | |
of our top story this lunchtime... The three main Westminster parties | :32:31. | :32:39. | |
have pledged to transfer extensive powers to Scotland, if there is a no | :32:40. | :32:43. | |
vote in the referendum on Thursday. The yes campaign says it is too | :32:44. | :32:47. | |
little, too late. That is all from us. | :32:48. | :32:49. |