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Millions of people mark Armistice Day with communities falling silent | :00:06. | :00:16. | |
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In Afghanistan, British troops hold their own commemoration reflecting | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
on lives lost in a decade of conflict. | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
93 years on from the World War One armistice, we'll be looking at the | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
enduring appeal of the nation's remembrance. | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
Also tonight: Italy votes to adopt new austerity | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
measures, but the eurozone crisis remains a negative force on | :00:50. | :00:59. | |
Britain's jobs and growth. Police apologise to the relatives | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
of a mother and daughter murdered by a registered sex offender who | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
lived next door. Mike Tindall faces the end of his | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
international rugby career after losing his place on the England | :01:07. | :01:17. | |
squad. They are clearly sending out a message to the rest of the rugby- | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
playing public who are English- qualified that if you represent | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
your country, quite rightly you have to behave yourself. | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
And good news for London - the city wins through to host the World | :01:28. | :01:38. | |
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I'll be here with sports day later. Down-and-out in Paris. Murray's | :01:41. | :01:51. | |
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Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
Millions of people stopped what they were doing at precisely 11 | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
o'clock this morning to take part in commemorations for Remembrance | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
Day. The two-minute silence came on the 11th hour of the 11th day of | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
the 11th month. This the 93rd anniversary of the armistice that | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
ended the First World War. Robert Hall reports on the day of | :02:22. | :02:32. | |
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The sound of the bugle echoing across the parade ground at Camp | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
Bastion in Afghanistan. A reminder that today's act of remembrance | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
spanned conflicts stretching over more than nine decades. My thoughts | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
were quite obviously with everyone that has given their lives in past | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
conflicts as a soldier. But also as the brother of someone who made the | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
ultimate sacrifice in Afghanistan. I was thinking about my brother and | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
the sacrifice he made in 2008. the Defence Secretary paid his | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
tribute to the fallen, forts were focused on Private Matthew Thornton, | :03:08. | :03:17. | |
of 1st Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, the 345th soldier to die in this | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
operation. Painstakingly restored by the Imperial War Museum for this | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
anniversary, the stark images from the First World War battles on the | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
Somme which claimed more than 57,000 lives on the first day alone. | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
A four-year conflict which ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of | :03:35. | :03:44. | |
the 11th month in 1918. The hour, when on a cloudy morning in 2011, | :03:44. | :03:54. | |
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silence spread outwards from the There were moments of formality. | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
But the record number of copies sold this year, around 46 million, | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
suggested growing level of public engagement with this act of | :04:11. | :04:20. | |
remembrance. From shopping centres to railway stations to the gardens | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
of remembrance established at schools and local communities. | :04:24. | :04:32. | |
just feel like all of the soldiers that died were so brave. It is not | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
just a thought that people have served, it is affecting the | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
families as well. Two short minutes when new generations had time to | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
consider their links with the past. Two minutes when families and | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
friends could reflect on their own a more recent losses. The worst bit | :04:50. | :04:57. | |
was stood in front of so many crosses with photographs form of | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
people killed. I know their families very well. They were not | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
just photographs of lads, they were loved ones of the family's I've | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
come to know and love myself. the ceremonies in London ended, | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
police arrested 170 supporters of the English Defence League near the | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
Cenotaph amid concerns they were planning to target an anti- | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
capitalist camp in Westminster. But this was a day when the majority | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
took time out from the concerns of a hectic modern life to pay tribute. | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
To lay their poppies and crosses at a time when past and present are | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
forever intertwined. And we can talk to Robert at the | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
Cenotaph in central London now. A record number of poppies sold this | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
year, but how has the way we remembered changed over the years? | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
I think there's a number of factors at play. This Armistice silence was | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
only reinstated in the 1990s after a successful campaign by the Royal | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
British Legion. Since then we have seen conflicts in Iraq and | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
Afghanistan. Pictures of repatriations from Royal Wootton | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
Bassett and Brize Norton. We are losing service personnel in | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
theatres of operations in the present as we did in the past. Add | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
to that the internet, people's ability to research their own | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
family members, perhaps lost many years ago, to put names and faces | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
together, to hear personal stories. It increases that sense of relevant. | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
Part of the Armistice commemoration today took place on the internet. | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
Although this is something which derives from the past, it is a | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
ceremony or a series of ceremonies which is still evolving. Her thank | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
you. After another week of chaos in the | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
eurozone, there were signs today that tension might be easing. | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
Shares on the financial markets rose after news that Italy's senate | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
had approved a long-delayed economic reform package demanded by | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
the EU. In Greece, Lucas Papedemos has been sworn in as the interim | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
Prime Minister. He'll lead a new coalition government aiming to | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
implement the conditions for Greece's latest bail out. Here, the | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
Chancellor, George Osborne, has warned of continuing economic | :07:06. | :07:12. | |
danger, but said Britain is ready to weather the storm. Here's our | :07:12. | :07:21. | |
chief economics correspondent, Hugh At times this week the eurozone | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
crisis seemed to be spinning out of control. The mood has now can't do | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
little, but still there are big questions over what events in | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
Greece and Italy could mean for the rest of Europe, including the UK. | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
The Chancellor, today on a visit to a renewable energy project north of | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
Inverness, warned of the possible implications for the British | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
economy. It is a very, very difficult and dangerous situation | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
in the eurozone. Britain is impacted by what is happening, | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
there's no doubt growth and jobs in Britain have been hit by what is | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
going on in the eurozone. But the Labour leader, visiting a college | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
in Warwickshire, said the government should do a lot more to | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
help resolve Europe's problems. think what David Cameron needs to | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
do is say to Europe's leaders, we must meet urgently as 27 countries | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
and get this problem sorted out once and for all. Her financial | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
turmoil has had an impact on turmoil has had an impact on | :08:19. | :08:20. | |
pensions here. The Italian government's cost of borrowing has | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
soared, it is now just below 7% as investors decided it was risky. | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
Money has moved into other markets like the UK. The British | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
government's borrowing costs has government's borrowing costs has | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
fallen to just above 2%. That is good in many ways for the UK, but | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
it is bad news for many workers who I just about to retire. Their | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
annual pension income is closely linked to him -- interest rates | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
paid by the government. His how the eurozone crisis has hit pension | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
returns. Some workers retire having returns. Some workers retire having | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
built up a stand-alone pension pot. Let's say that his �50,000. In | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
November 2008, that would have guaranteed a pension of just over | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
�3,200 per year. Anyone retiring �3,200 per year. Anyone retiring | :09:09. | :09:10. | |
this month would only be offered around �2,600 for their annual | :09:10. | :09:16. | |
pension. One part of the UK economy especially vulnerable to a eurozone | :09:16. | :09:23. | |
slowdown is exports. Nearly half goes to continental Europe. This | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
business in Telford makes components for a range of | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
industries. They are doing well, but in the last month they have | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
seen European orders tailing off. We have just started to see a | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
softening. The interesting thing is yes, 25% of our business is in | :09:41. | :09:47. | |
Europe, mainly Germany, Benelux, France, Spain, but we are also | :09:47. | :09:53. | |
seeing a similar thing happening in other areas in the world. Markets | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
have rallied a bit today. There are hopes of more stability in Italy | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
and Greece, but everyone is agreed the eurozone crisis is far from | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
over. The England rugby captain, Mike | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
Tindall, has been kicked out of the national squad and fined �25,000 by | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
the Rugby Football Union. It comes after Tindall, who is married to | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
the Queen's granddaughter Zara Phillips, was caught on camera with | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
a woman at a bar during the team's ill-fated World Cup campaign. Our | :10:17. | :10:27. | |
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sports correspondent Joe Wilson has For more than a decade, Mike | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
Tindall has been a figurehead of the England team, many of his 75 | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
caps came as captain. The small matter of marrying the Queen's | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
granddaughter this year sent his profile into another dimension. So | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
it was that images of him in a New Zealand bar in the middle of the | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
World Cup attracted huge attention. A night out described by the | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
England manager at the time as rather ordinary. Other teams have | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
done the same thing in the same town and gone out for a few drinks. | :10:56. | :11:02. | |
If we get away from having that in the rugby World Cup, I don't think | :11:02. | :11:12. | |
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that is for the best. But today the An example was being made. They are | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
clearly sending out a message to the rest of the rugby-playing | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
public who are English-qualified that if you represent your country, | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
quite rightly, you have to behave yourself otherwise we will deal | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
with you very severely. We don't care who you are and what service | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
you have done for the country. You will cockpit. It is here at | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
Twickenham that the RFU's decisions are made, but right now it is not | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
clear just who's in charge here with resignations and inquiries. | :11:50. | :11:56. | |
But clearly players must also protect the image of the game. Two | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
other England players, Chris Ashton and James Haskell, both received | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
suspended fines for an incident involving a hotel chambermaid | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
during the World Cup. And let's not forget man you tell a lengthy | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
jumping from a ferry. Do England players know how to behave? | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
need guys to go out there and enjoy things. Where you place that line | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
is up to the guys in charge and what they see as right and wrong. | :12:19. | :12:25. | |
It is also up to the players to make that decision. For me going | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
through the 2011 World Cup put me on constant and alert and that | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
still goes with me everywhere. Tindall will appeal against his | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
fine, but it still seems he has paid for his World Cup mistakes | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
with his England career. A nurse from east London has been | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
jailed for three years for killing her baby daughter through force- | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
feeding. 31-year-old Gloria Dwomoh was obsessed with her daughter's | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
weight and poured liquidised food down her throat while she was | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
weaning her onto solids. The ten- month-old child died from pneumonia | :12:52. | :13:02. | |
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caused by food in her lungs. London will host the 2017 World | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
Athletics Championships. The sport's world governing body chose | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
London over the Qatari capital Doha and made the announcement this | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
afternoon in Monaco. Our sports editor, David Bond, is there for us | :13:13. | :13:23. | |
It has been one of the closest races in world athletics for years. | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
Even as late as lunchtime today, bid leaders from London were | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
telling me it was too close to call. But in the end it was a comfortable | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
victory for London. They got 16 votes to Doha's 10. | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
Her having twice pulled out of bids to stage the World Athletics | :13:38. | :13:44. | |
Championships, it was third time lucky for London today. London. | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
After months of campaigning, there was jubilation, but also a great | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
sense of relief among the winning bid team. It is the world's third | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
largest sporting event coming to London for nine days. We have the | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
Olympic Games in 2012, we now have the world athletics championships | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
in 2017. Despite Qatar's great wealth, London Bebo Park with its | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
promise to deliver big-money TV and commercial deals in one of the | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
world's most iconic cities. The bid also vowed to put on a | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
championships centred around the athletes. Back home at his training | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
camp in Loughborough, Britain's world champion hurdler Dai Greene | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
was waiting anxiously for news from Monaco. As an athlete it is | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
fantastic that we have won the bid. It is a great feeling to be | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
competing in front of your home fans and I will get an opportunity | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
next year, but to get it in another six years will be fantastic. | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
Failure to land the 2018 World Cup might have taken the shine off it, | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
but the next few years still promised a golden era for British | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
sport. First up the most prestigious, the London 2012 | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
Olympics. Scotland will hope to keep the momentum going when | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
Glasgow hosts to the 2014 Commonwealth Games. In 2015 England | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
will be hoping to make up for its dismal showing in New Zealand when | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
it stages the Rugby World Cup. And now following today's vote, London | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
will again be at the centre of the sporting spotlight when it stages | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
the World Athletics Championships. Landing the 2017 event was crucial | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
to the future of this place, London's �500 million Olympic | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
Stadium for top West Ham were supposed to be moving in after 20 | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
Guelph, but a legal challenge from Tottenham Hotspur Forster dramatic | :15:24. | :15:31. | |
U-turn. -- 2012. Ministers scrap to deal with West Ham last month to | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
boost the 2017 bid and reassure world athletics chiefs that track | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
and field remain central to the stadium's legacy plans after 2012. | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
Failure to secure the World Championships would have been | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
deeply embarrassing for the government and raised serious | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
questions about what happens next. We took quite a risk when we took | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
the stadium back into public ownership three weeks ago. Part of | :15:53. | :15:59. | |
the reason was to end the legal uncertainty, but to bring certainty | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
to the World Athletics Championships bid. Today's bit -- | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
result would end the controversy over the stadium, but it will go | :16:06. | :16:13. | |
some way to delivering on the London impressed with its legacy | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
promises, particularly around the stadium after 2012 but this was | :16:16. | :16:22. | |
also a bid about hard cash. Doha promised around �150 million, | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
including �5 million in prize money. Now at the last minute London | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
offered to match that and that was clearly influential today and | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
underlined just how important it was for London to win. | :16:33. | :16:40. | |
Thank you. Our top story tonight: Communities | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
across the UK have marked Armistice Day, remembering those who died | :16:44. | :16:53. | |
serving their country. Coming up: This is Birdie, 15, | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
still at school with a first album coming out, we are looking at the | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
hopes and fears of the British music industry. | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
And on the BBC News channel Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button set the | :17:05. | :17:15. | |
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pace for McLaren ahead of the Grand It's often suggested that eating | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
more fibre is good for you but there's now evidence of exactly how | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
much you need in order to reduce your risk of cancer. Researchers | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
from Imperial College London say that an extra 10 grammes of fibre a | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
day would cut the risk of developing bowel cancer by 10%. | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
This report from our health correspondent Dominic Hughes. Just | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
how much fibre should we eat? Since the 1970s experts have suggested | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
that high fibre foods like cereals, pwrapb and wholemeal bread could | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
prevent bowel cancer but they lacked hard proof. Now a new study | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
suggests a high fibre diet could provide some protection to what is | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
the UK's second biggest cancer killer. Mark Davis developed bowel | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
cancer in his early 30s. He has made a full recovery but he | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
believes his poor diet was to blame. Diet was definitely a factor in me | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
getting cancer so early and young at 31. I was working very long | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
hours and I was eating the wrong foods at the wrong time, takeaways, | :18:25. | :18:34. | |
burgers, but all the time. Now post-cancer my diet's changed a lot. | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
Bowel cancer has been linked to a poor diet, too much red meat, for | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
example. But this study says that people who eat very little fibre | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
stand to benefit the most from increasing their intake of | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
wholegrain foods. If aud bowl of porridge for break fast this | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
morning it probably had under 3 grams of fibre. If you are starting | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
with a low fibre diet you can reduce your risk of bowel cancer by | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
up to 10% by increasing the amount of fibre to eat to ten grams a day, | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
the equivalent of three bowls of porridge. | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
This is a scan of... Bowel cancer experts say diet is just one factor | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
in a complicated disease. There are other very important risk factors | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
for bowel cancer, such as high consumption of meat, obesity, and | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
physical inactivity. That allows to us look at these in greater detail. | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
Finally, there's the question about screening and particularly for | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
bowel cancer there are new methods coming in forward and the future | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
will be able to reduce this cancer by up to 33%. People have long been | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
encouraged to eat plenty of fruit and vegetables as part of a healthy | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
lifestyle, this research found no evidence they helped guard against | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
bowel cancer in the same way as high fibre foods. Cancer charities | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
say fruit and veg should still play an important part in diet but the | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
role fibre can play in the fight against bowel cancer is becoming | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
clearer. Police have apologised to relatives | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
of a mother and daughter who were murdered by a registered sex | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
offender. Diane Fallon and her 10- year-old daughter, Holly, were | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
killed by Thomas Smith after he was found to be living in a flat next | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
door to them in Ayrshire. An independent review said police | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
missed several opportunities to intervene before the murders took | :20:15. | :20:23. | |
place. Lorna Gordon is in Ayrshire for us now. What else are they | :20:23. | :20:30. | |
saying? Well, this is the small hamlet where Thomas Smith lived, | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
when he moved here he was already on the sex offenders' register. He | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
had served a jail sentence for indecently assaulting a young child. | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
When he moved here he ended up living next door to Diane Fallon | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
and her ten-year-old daughter, Holly. He befriended the family. | :20:46. | :20:53. | |
Then he went on to subject them to an appallingly prolonged attack. He | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
raped ten-year-old Holly before killing both her and her mother. | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
Today, the police apologised to Holly and Diane Fallon's family and | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
said there were things they could and should have done better in | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
monitoring the movements of Thomas Smith. | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
This is uncomfortable for us. You know, much less so, of course, than | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
it is for the family of Diane and Holly Fallon. But when we have got | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
it wrong we will say we have got it wrong and we will make sure we put | :21:20. | :21:26. | |
things right for the future. Well, neighbours here have welcomed the | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
findings of this independent review. They've said if it helps the police | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
and other authorities who were involved in the monitoring of | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
Thomas Smith improve their proceed euros, then -- procedures, then | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
that will be a good thing. The review makes 34 recommendations in | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
total T says there should be improved sharing of intelligence | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
between the various authorities, it also says that perhaps the law | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
should be changed when it comes to monitoring sex offenders. It says | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
there should be increased powers for police to enter their homes if | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
they're high risk offenders. It also says it should have powers - | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
police should have powers to examine mobile phones and in this | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
case it might have found out Smith was in contact with the family with | :22:08. | :22:18. | |
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the Fallons. In football, Frank Lampard will | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
captain England at Wembley for tomorrow's friendly against Spain. | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
The Manager, Fabio Cappello, has confirmed that John Terry will be | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
on the bench, but will get the captaincy against Sweden on Tuesday. | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
He's insisted the ongoing racism allegations and investigation have | :22:35. | :22:41. | |
had nothing to do with his decision. The recording arm of the British | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
record label EMI is being sold to the French-owned Universal Music | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
Group for �1.2 billion. EMI, the home of The Beatles, Coldplay and | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
Pink Floyd, was taken over by its main creditor, the American bank, | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
Citigroup, in February. Two severely disabled men from the | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
Isle of Wight have won a High Court action against their local | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
council's plans to cut its budget for adult social care. A judge | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
ruled that new criteria used to decide who was eligible for care | :23:01. | :23:07. | |
were unlawful. The council says it will now reconsider. Let's talk to | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
our social affairs correspondent Reeta Chakrabarti who's here now. | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
What are the implications of this? There are implications for local | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
authorities up and down the country who are looking to balance the | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
needs of vulnerable adults in their care, with having to make budget | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
cuts. Now in this particular case on the Isle of Wight the two men | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
involved had complex needs, they were both autistic, one had brain | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
damage. Their families challenged the way in which the council | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
decided to change its policy on funding care, limiting that funding | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
just to people whose needs were assessed as critical or at risk of | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
becoming critical and as you said the High Court supported the | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
families in judges that was unlawful. This isn't an isolated | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
case, there was another case in court this week, one in Birmingham | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
a few months ago. It's interesting these cases about cuts in care are | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
being challenged successfully in the courts. The local councils say | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
that the social care system is under great strain with less money | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
and more demand. The Government acknowledges that there is less | :24:02. | :24:12. | |
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money, but it says that the best councils are managing. | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
It's the busiest week in the music calendar with Britain's biggest | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
bands timing their new releases for the Christmas rush. But today | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
brought a warning that the big earners are more likely to be | :24:26. | :24:28. | |
pensioners than young wannabes. The Performing Rights Society says the | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
number of new acts breaking through is plummeting. Our arts | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
correspondent David Sillito has the details. | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
It must be strange going to school and coming home and talking about | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
album deals? Yeah, it is. Today has been really weird, going from | :24:43. | :24:53. | |
:24:53. | :24:54. | ||
science revision to recording. Birdy, still at school and this | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
week has gone into the top ten with her first album. And her ambition? | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
Travelling around the world and playing at huge concerts. That's | :25:01. | :25:07. | |
what I love, performing really. she's just 15 and it's looking good. | :25:07. | :25:17. | |
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But what about 18, 21, 25? The music industry has real fears. | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
Because the real money is being made in live music and the body | :25:23. | :25:29. | |
that represents songwriters says there's a problem. Age. I think | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
it's right to point the imbalance dominating that sector and ask the | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
question who is going to be selling out stadiums and festivals in 2025. | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
The figures are startling. In the top tier touring over the last year | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
you have The Rolling Stones, Elton John, 40% of those top acts on the | :25:48. | :25:54. | |
circuit are over 60. 19% are like U2 and Madonna, now in their 50s. | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
In fact, 96% were over 40. Britney Spears was the only 20-something on | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
this list. X Factor for instance may create fame, but long-term | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
success? If you have a hit with your first single you are dropped, | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
it's all over. So it's extremely fickle, a quick turnaround. | :26:15. | :26:21. | |
number of songwriters is at a record high, but long-term just who | :26:21. | :26:30. | |
are going to be the heritage acts of tomorrow? | :26:30. | :26:37. | |
Let's look at the weekend weather Not shaping up too badly, which may | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
come as a surprise if you are under the rain clouds. It's been pouring | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
with rain across Northern Ireland and still across parts of the | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
south-west and Wales and south- western parts of Scotland. Nasty | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
conditions on the roads. This band of rain will move west to east | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
across most of the country, although the amounts of rain will | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
vary. Some of us seeing a lot, others not very much at all T will | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
stagger its way eastwards as we go through the night. Something drier | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
following on behind, although one or two sharp showers behind it | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
across parts of Wales and the south-west of England. No problems | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
with frost or anything t will be a mild Friday night. Might be a grey | :27:15. | :27:22. | |
start across eastern parts of England, still rain around but it's | :27:22. | :27:28. | |
getting better. Most of us will see increasing amounts of sunshine. | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
Mid-afternoon across Scotland, for example, I am hopeful that you will | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
see more blue sky than cloud. Still the odd shower left behind across | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
the western Highlands and islands but most of us will avoid these | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
with sunshine. Brighter too for Northern Ireland, light winds again. | :27:43. | :27:46. | |
Northern England should be dry with increasing amounts of sunshine. | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
Wales and the West Country, too. For eastern parts of England might | :27:49. | :27:54. | |
be a struggle, a cloudy start. Hopefully things will turn brighter | :27:54. | :28:00. | |
and in the sunshine it will feel mild. For Remembrance Sunday it | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
should be dry, that's good news. Again the sunshine will come and go, | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
probably the best across the more western areas. This is the picture | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
on Sunday. A fair bit of cloud towards some north-eastern coasts | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
of England and Scotland. But in the sunshine should feel pleasant. | :28:16. | :28:20. | |
Tomorrow Britain in a Day, that means go out and take a picture and | :28:20. | :28:23. | |
put it on the website, we will be interested to see it. Thank you | :28:23. | :28:29. | |
very much. Our main news: | :28:30. | :28:33. |