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A multi-billion pounds plan to get Britain's economy moving. But | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
questions over whether money will come from. Ministers want to boost | :00:14. | :00:20. | |
spending on roads and railways by up to �30 billion. The Chancellor | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
is as a UK pension funds to invest. I think it is the right thing to do | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
at a time like this, as we take our country through these difficult | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
times. We have got to weather the storm and lay the foundations of | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
future economic success. We welcome anything that will make a | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
difference to the economy. But the Government doesn't seem committed | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
to changing course. With a new forecast predicting a | :00:42. | :00:48. | |
double-dip recession, we will be asking if the latest plan is enough. | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
Michael Gove lashes out at the unions over the pensions strikes. | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
He says some leaders are militant and itching for a fight. The | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
innocent man caught up in the Jo Yeates murder investigation. After | :01:01. | :01:11. | |
a frenzy to media campaign, he changed his appearance. Sensational, | :01:11. | :01:17. | |
exploitative. As titillating, to appeal in every possible way to | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
people's four-way eristic instincts. A report into the summer riots says | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
that poor policing led to the violence spreading across the | :01:25. | :01:34. | |
country. Not cinematic enough for Eccentric, controversial and | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
rebellious. All of that and more. The film-maker Ken Russell dies at | :01:39. | :01:45. | |
And I will be here with Sportsday later in the hour on the BBC News | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
Channel, including a change of heart from Nick Mallett. He might | :01:49. | :01:58. | |
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be interested in the England job Hello, welcome to the BBC News at | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
Six. The Chancellor has announced plans for a big investment in | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
Britain's infrastructure, to give a boost to the sluggish economic | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
growth. On the eve of his autumn statement, George Osborne says up | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
to �30 billion could be spent on roads and railways around the | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
country. Most of the money will have to come from the private | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
sector. The announcement comes as a leading group of economic | :02:35. | :02:43. | |
forecasters said that Britain was Whether it is new money for the | :02:43. | :02:50. | |
Humber Bridge to allow cheaper tolls, or extra funding to ease | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
congestion on the M3, or new investment allowing use of the Holt | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
-- hard shoulder on sections of the M25, it is part of a new �30 | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
billion funding package for the next 10 years. As the Chancellor | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
toured one project site, he stressed that a sizable chunk of | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
the programme was not being financed by the Government. Much of | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
it is going to come from the private sector, from pension funds. | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
We will use British savings to interest in British jobs and | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
British building. It is the right thing to do, we have got to take | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
our country through these difficult times, weather the storm and lay | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
the foundations of future economic successful stock the A14 is a major | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
route across the east of England to Felixstowe, crucial for | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
transporting goods for export and import. Experts say an upgrade is | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
long overdue. There are heavy goods vehicles going up and down here all | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
day long. It can get very congested at peak times. One of the new | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
investment schemes will focus on widening the A14, starting from | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
here, as it goes around the town of Kettering. This local haulage boss | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
says that congestion is losing him money every week. Totally | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
frustrating. You never know from one minute to the next if you are | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
going to have a vehicle that actually gets to a destination. I | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
cannot predict if I am going to be earning money or not. | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
investment on this route will mean more work for construction firms | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
and that could mean more jobs, according to one big company | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
planning to bid. It is great news for our company should we Widnes. | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
It will be great news for employment. We take on a large | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
number of trainees and apprentices, working on schemes such as this and | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
elsewhere in our business. where is the �30 billion of | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
investment over 10 years going to come from? �20 billion will be from | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
private investors, mainly pension funds. The Government will chip in | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
�5 billion up to 2015, with money funded by savings elsewhere. There | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
will be �5 billion of new government money after that date. | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
But it is not yet clear when the pension fund money will be raised | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
or how the building work will be financed. Tolls could be levied in | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
some cases. Experts say the Government contribution in the next | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
couple of years is not that great. �5 billion over three years is | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
actually a small amount of money. You could get that from small | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
savings from a range of bits of government. The investment plan | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
will not help growth in the short term. Today we learned that the | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
international think-tank the OECD believes that the UK could slip | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
back into a brief recession before the middle of next year. We welcome | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
anything that will make a difference to the economy. The | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
problem is that the Government doesn't seem committed to changing | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
course, really. Tomorrow we are going to see bad figures on growth, | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
jobs and borrowing. The Chancellor will have to own up to a gloomier | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
outlook for growth when he makes his autumn statement in Parliament | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
tomorrow. He will also have to shed more light on what funding will be | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
cutback to pay for his infrastructure plan. | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
In a moment we will speak to our political editor Nick Robinson. | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
First, Stephanie Flanders is here. A whole load of figures in that | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
report, including that �5 billion from the Government. Is it going to | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
be enough? There is a lot we do not know about that �5 billion. Maybe | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
we will find out more tomorrow. We know it is not new money, ministers | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
have been clear it will be from existing spending plans. Compared | :06:19. | :06:25. | |
to the size of the economy, there is not very much money. Over three | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
years, �5 billion, it sounds like a lot. But we have a �14 billion | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
economy. I don't think ministers are talking about this as a way to | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
kick-start the economy in the short run. As the OECD made clear, and | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
other broadcasters have made clear, the prospects are looking pretty | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
bleak, for the short-term. Flat or falling growth over the next few | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
months. Mr Ross Brawn doesn't think he can do much about that tomorrow. | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
He knows that the short-term story is going to be written more by what | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
happens in the eurozone. Let's talk to Nick Robinson. Those caveats | :06:58. | :07:04. | |
aside, some people will say that this is, in effect, a Plan B from a | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
Chancellor who said there was no Plan B? George Osborne will insist | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
that if he is not spending more than he planned, if he is not | :07:11. | :07:19. | |
borrowing more to kick-start the economy, it is not Plan A. But two | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
big bats. On the one hand he is doing as much as he can without | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
spending extra money, trying to bring in money from the private | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
sector, trying to find the odd billion to increase infrastructure, | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
launching schemes in order to do something to get the economy moving. | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
Tomorrow he is going to have to announce not just that growth is | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
much lower than he hoped and planned for, but borrowing is much | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
higher. If he is not going to cut more and tax more in order to bring | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
that borrowing down, he might have to tell us that the deficit will | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
not be brought under control in this Parliament, in the next four | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
years, but might have to drift into the next one. Some people say that | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
is, in effect, a sort of change of plan. What is most striking tonight | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
is that as heat writes the last words of his autumn statement, we | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
know that it is not what he planned it today, merely a report back on | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
the state of the economy, it looks and feels like a mini budget from a | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
Chancellor who is going to have to tell the country, we are off | :08:20. | :08:28. | |
You can get all of the latest information on the state of the | :08:28. | :08:38. | |
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economy ahead of tomorrow's The Education Secretary Michael | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
Gove has attacked what he called militant union leaders ahead of | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
Wednesday's public sector strikes over pension changes. He singled | :08:46. | :08:52. | |
out the leaders of the Unite Union and Unison as itching for a fight | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
and urged teachers to reconsider their decision to walk out. One | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
union leader accused him of trying to bully public sector workers. | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
This will be the scene across the UK on Wednesday. Instead of the | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
bustling sound of children, classrooms will fall silent and | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
hundreds of thousands of teachers are expected to walk out on strike. | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
More than 20 schools -- 20,000 schools are expected to close. So, | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
who is to blame? Today, the Education Secretary singled out | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
some senior figures in the trade union movement. Hardliners, | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
militants, itching for a fight. They want families to be | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
inconvenienced. They want mothers to give up a day's work and pay for | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
expensive childcare because schools will be closed. The Government | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
wants to cut the cost of the pensions of public sector workers | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
such as teachers. Unions say it will leave staff pay more and | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
working longer to get less in the end. The union which represents | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
Head Teachers has called its members out for the first time in | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
its 114 year history. We very much regret the inconvenience that will | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
happen on Wednesday. Head teachers spend their whole career trying to | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
get people to come into school, to send them away for even a day is | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
very painful. We also feel we have not been listened to in | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
negotiations. It is likely to be the biggest strike in decades, amid | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
fears of 12 are queues at Heathrow the Government says that police | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
officers will replace border staff. Local government services, | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
including refuse collection, will be hit. In a rare move, some NHS | :10:34. | :10:41. | |
staff will also walk out. More than 5000 operations have been cancelled. | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
Unions deny the Education Secretary's charge that they are | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
seeking a confrontation. We are not itching for a fight. We want an | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
agreement. We do need ministers that want to reach an agreement | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
with us, including Michael Gove. With no chance that the strike will | :10:55. | :11:01. | |
be called off now, the rhetoric unions as to who is to blame is | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
likely to increase in the coming days. That will do nothing to help | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
the millions of people whose lives will now be significantly disrupted | :11:07. | :11:16. | |
The man who was arrested and later released without charge over the | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
murder of Joanna Yeates has told the inquiry into press standards | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
about what he called the media witch-hunt against him. Christopher | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
Jefferies said he had been shamelessly vilified in the | :11:26. | :11:32. | |
tabloids. Nicholas Witchell has been at the hearing. | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
Christopher Jefferies, on the left, has changed his appearance since | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
his image received such unwelcome attention a year ago. This is how | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
he looked last December, when he was arrested over the murder of | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
Joanna Yeates. Christopher Jefferies was innocent. But his | :11:48. | :11:55. | |
reputation was torn apart by the press. The whole slanting of the | :11:55. | :12:05. | |
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reporting was intended to be as sensational, exploitative and as | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
titillating, to appeal in every possible way to people's for way | :12:11. | :12:18. | |
The stories were so distorted that when he was released by police he | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
had to go into hiding. For a period after I was released, I was | :12:24. | :12:32. | |
effectively under house arrest. I went from friends to friends, | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
rather as if I was a priest at the time of the Reformation, I suppose, | :12:37. | :12:43. | |
going from safe house to safe house. Charlotte Church has been in the | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
public eye since she was a teenager. The singer decide -- described how | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
she had been asked to sing at the wedding of Rupert Murdoch. She said | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
she was offered either a fee of �100,000 or a favour of positive | :12:55. | :13:03. | |
coverage of her career. I remember being told it was the offer of | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
money or the offer of the favour, in order to a basically get good | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
press, to be looked upon favourably, as I said in my statement. | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
International said it had no recollection of such an offer. | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
Charlotte Church described years of press intrusion. The most upsetting, | :13:19. | :13:25. | |
she said, had been an expose by the News of the World on her father's | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
private life and the impact it had on her mother's health. I hated the | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
fact that my parents, who had never been in this industry, apart from | :13:34. | :13:40. | |
in looking after me, were being exposed and vilified in this | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
fashion. Finally, the broadcaster Anne Diamond, who recalled the cot | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
death of her son. She and her then Hawes -- husband had baked editors | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
to respect the privacy of his funeral. But The Sun got hold of a | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
photograph will stop the editor of the sun rang my husband and said, | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
we have got a picture, it is an incredibly strong picture. We would | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
like to use it. My husband said, no, we have asked all of you to stay | :14:08. | :14:14. | |
away. No. The editor said, well, we are going to use it anyway. | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
inquiry has heard for five days from people who feel they have been | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
victims of the press. Tomorrow it will move on, issuing from a former | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
tabloid reporter he was disillusioned with what he was | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
being asked to do and a Guardian reporter who, more than anyone, | :14:29. | :14:38. | |
10 people have been charged with the ill-treatment of a vulnerable | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
patients at the Winterbourne care home in Bristol. The home was the | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
subject of an undercover investigation by the BBC's Panorama | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
programme earlier this year and was closed shortly after. Millions of | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
Egyptians have been queuing to vote in the first election since the | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
uprising which toppled President has been well Iraq in February. It | :14:57. | :15:04. | |
takes place against the backdrop of the violence and growing unease | :15:04. | :15:10. | |
against the activists who made Tahrir Square. Our Middle-East | :15:10. | :15:20. | |
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This is what happened at one polling station in the district of | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
Cairo. The first of voters were queuing two hours before it was due | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
to open. And they have to wait almost two hours more while some | :15:29. | :15:36. | |
details, like bringing in ballot papers, were sorted out. Apart from | :15:36. | :15:42. | |
a row about queue-jumping, it was peaceful. The army, not the still | :15:42. | :15:48. | |
despised police, asked handled the security. He told them to form an | :15:48. | :15:58. | |
orderly line. And then they were ready to vote. Me and my wife and | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
my son. We are going to get the today because we are feeling this | :16:03. | :16:09. | |
is a good day. This day will be history. The ballot papers were | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
enormous. This district had 122 names to choose from. No one seemed | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
to mind. They used to have elections under the old regime but | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
they were always fixed, so most people didn't bother to vote. Not | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
today. TRANSLATION: First time, I wanted | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
to be good for everyone. Whoever wins, I just hope they don't stay | :16:31. | :16:38. | |
forever. Getting a free vote was a big part of the revolution for a | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
lot of Egyptians, and it is finally happening. There are still serious | :16:42. | :16:48. | |
questions about the amount of power the Army wants to retain after | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
civilian politicians are elected. In the street the Muslim | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
Brotherhood, the front runners, were getting out the vote. They say | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
they want a proper democracy. Many secular Egyptians believe that's | :17:00. | :17:07. | |
not true. Sorting out the economy is the key to political stability | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
here for whoever wins. 700,000 new people enter the workforce every | :17:11. | :17:19. | |
year. Many never find a proper job. It is -- at his second hand | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
bookshop, this man has seen it all. He remembers picking, deposed by | :17:24. | :17:30. | |
army officers, whose successes still rule the country. Don't worry, | :17:30. | :17:36. | |
he says, the army will deliver the government to civilians. The | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
protesters still hemmed into Tahrir Square tried to stop an election | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
they said would be fraught and violent. Now they are deeply | :17:43. | :17:49. | |
divided about voting at all. This day isn't perfect, but it really is | :17:49. | :17:59. | |
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Our top story tonight... The government's latest plan to get | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
Britain's economy moving. A �30 billion boost to roads, railways | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
and infrastructure. Coming up... Camera speed. Take one. Looking | :18:10. | :18:17. | |
back at the career of film director Ken Russell, who has died aged 84. | :18:17. | :18:25. | |
Later, the OECD issues a stark warning for the global economy. And | :18:25. | :18:35. | |
:18:35. | :18:38. | ||
bookings slump at Thomas Cook after The failure of the police to act | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
decisively when the summer riots started in London led to the | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
violence spreading across the country. That is the view of the | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
Riots Communities And Victims Panel set up earlier this year. The | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
inquiry also heard criticism of police use of stop and search | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
powers, and warned that the danger of a repeat of the disorder if | :18:56. | :19:03. | |
action wasn't taken. We report from Tottenham, where the riots began. | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
Today's report reflects on what lay behind five shocking and | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
traumatising days in England last summer. Will riots happen again, | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
the panel asked, quite possibly yes, was their answer. The trigger for | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
the riots was the shooting dead of Mark Duggan by police in Tottenham. | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
The panel encountered widespread criticism of the Met's insensitive | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
handling of that incident. But more probably were disturbed to find | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
significant numbers of people in some communities were sceptical or | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
even hostile to the police. They heard from many young black and | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
Asian witnesses who complained that police stop and search was | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
consistently carried out without courtesy. And warned there was a | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
very real danger that stop and search will have a corrosive effect | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
on their relationship with the police. The panel recommended the | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
practice needs immediate attention to ensure that community confidence | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
is not undermined. There was agreement that stop and search is | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
necessary in order to fight crime and move dangerous individuals from | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
the streets. But there was concern among law-abiding young people that | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
is all that often, or sometimes, they were being stopped and not | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
being treated with the level of respect and courtesy they thought | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
was appropriate. The Metropolitan Police said today that the | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
commissioner is committed to more intelligent and effective use of | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
stop-and-search, stressing that while an essential tool, it must be | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
done objectively and with courtesy. The panel says immediate action is | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
required or riots will happen again. Deprivation is no excuse, but the | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
government must look at the underlying causes, they say, noting | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
the striking and sad similarities to the Trigger's identified by Lord | :20:43. | :20:49. | |
Scarman in his report on inner-city rioting 30 years ago. | :20:49. | :20:55. | |
Indiscriminate use of stop and search powers against black people, | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
a controversial law, was found to have contributed to riots in | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
Brixton and other inner-city neighbourhoods. Today in Tottenham, | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
there are many who still think police abuse their power. Sometimes | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
people are targeted by police and it's not good for them. Some of | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
them are really bullies. The way they approach you. It turns your | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
stomach. Today's report does not try to excuse the rioting but it | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
does find an urgent need for police to work with communities to ensure | :21:21. | :21:28. | |
a lack of trust is not passed to another generation. The family of | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
former Wales manager Gary Speed say they've been overwhelmed by | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
messages of support following his death. The 42-year-old was found | :21:35. | :21:42. | |
dead at his home in Cheshire at the weekend. He'd taken his own life. | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
For the fans in Cardiff the grief is still all too raw. All day came | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
the tributes, shirts, flowers and the personal messages. Struggling | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
to understand how the life of a national hero had been cut so | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
tragically short. At their home in Chester, Gary Speed's family spoke | :22:00. | :22:06. | |
of their loss. Gary's family would sincerely like to thank all the | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
people that have sent messages of condolences and tributes, in what | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
is a very difficult time. They have been overwhelmed by the support. It | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
really has helped. Football has been left bereaved but also | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
bewildered. Just a fortnight ago, Gary Speed was here celebrating a | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
famous win over Norway. Only on Saturday he was talking excitedly | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
about his plans for the future. For the fans there are still so many | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
questions. It's just a tragedy that Gary Speed is not going to be there | :22:38. | :22:45. | |
to take them forward. God only knows why what happened happened. | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
We are just asking why, why has he killed himself? It's terrible. | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
a decade as a player and a year as a manager, Gary Speed became a | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
Welsh legend. Today the flags were at half mast and the game at | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
struggling for answers. This is what gives us the big shock. If you | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
knew that there was a problem somewhere or whatever, then perhaps | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
you could start to go down that road and understand these things. | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
But there's absolutely nothing. I saw him on the television on | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
Saturday and he was just the normal Gary Speed that I know. And it | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
still across the country the tributes pour in. From Everton to | :23:23. | :23:29. | |
his other clubs, Newcastle, Leeds and Sheffield United. Football | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
united in sorrel for a man universally loved. An annual report | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
on safety in England's hospitals says that patients are more likely | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
to die if they are admitted at weekends. The Dr Foster company | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
concluded that outside normal working hours, when fewer senior | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
doctors are present, death rates are on average almost 10 % higher. | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
The controversial film director Ken Russell has died at the age of 84. | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
Perhaps best known for the film adaptation of DH Lawrence's novel | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
Women In Love, he also directed the Devils, The Boyfriend and the | :24:05. | :24:14. | |
:24:15. | :24:18. | ||
Ken Russell's portrait of the composer Elgar, one of a series of | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
acclaimed arts documentaries he made for the BBC in the 1960s. They | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
were beautiful to look at, seductive to listen to and | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
thoroughly self-indulgent. They marked him out as a film-maker of | :24:29. | :24:39. | |
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Camera speed. Take one. At the BBC he learned his craft as a director | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
and developed his trademark style - a flamboyant and visually | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
extravagant. He moved into cinema, where his second major feature, | :24:56. | :25:02. | |
Women In Love, was acclaimed as a masterpiece. We champs to save them, | :25:02. | :25:12. | |
:25:12. | :25:15. | ||
But as time went on his films became more extreme. The Devil's | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
reflected his fascination with sex and religion and was widely panned. | :25:20. | :25:28. | |
I was making films around that time, 71, 72. He also disturbed me. | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
Whether you liked it or disliked it. You have a strong reaction to the | :25:32. | :25:40. | |
work either way. This is rare. Tommy, made in 1975, was typically | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
overblown. It followed more than 30 years in which his films grew | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
progressively less successful, and the difficulties he faced in | :25:48. | :25:55. | |
financing them became progressively greater. I sent a script to Channel | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
4 the other day and it eventually came back about six months later, | :25:59. | :26:05. | |
signed by somebody I'd never heard of. Totally unknown to me, saying, | :26:05. | :26:11. | |
thank you for your script, it's not cinematic enough. I nearly went | :26:11. | :26:19. | |
mad! Not cinematic enough for me?! He was, and his films remain, the | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
work of a genius. Sa genius he was extraordinary and, like all | :26:24. | :26:33. | |
geniuses, sometimes his films were much less than genius. Better to | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
remember his successes, like the musical the Boy Friend, starring | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
Twiggy. A reminder that Russell, however self-indulgent and | :26:41. | :26:49. | |
undisciplined it was, could also be wonderful. The Life and Work of the | :26:49. | :26:59. | |
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director Ken Russell, who has died The weather goes downhill tonight. | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
We find that cloud beginning and it turns wetter, particularly in the | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
West. The wind strengthens as well. Strengthening southerly winds | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
actually lifting the temperatures as the night goes on. But | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
concentrating the rain in Northern Ireland and across Scotland in | :27:17. | :27:19. | |
particular. Although western Scotland we have weather warnings | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
of rain from the Met Office, amber warnings, it could lead to some | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
local flooding. A wet start in Northern Ireland tomorrow. The | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
heaviest rain around Perth, Kinross, Stirling, Dumfries and Galloway. | :27:32. | :27:36. | |
Not quite so wet across the eastern side of Scotland but the wind is | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
picking up here. The wind holding off in the North of England but | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
there will be a lot of cloud and some strong winds. The temperatures | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
down the eastern side of England are higher than they've been | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
through the course of today. There will be rain here round there but | :27:51. | :27:55. | |
nothing much at this stage. Further west, the rain gathering in the far | :27:55. | :27:59. | |
south-west of England and Wales. Here, as the rain arrives, so we | :27:59. | :28:05. | |
will see gusts of up to 70 mph. It will be a very windy day. We've got | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
the band of rain sitting across the West initially. It clears away from | :28:09. | :28:13. | |
Northern Ireland and it drives across Scotland, Wales and western | :28:13. | :28:17. | |
England during the morning, and then into eastern England later in | :28:17. | :28:22. | |
the day. Squally winds, potentially damaging. Ahead of the rain we've | :28:22. | :28:25. | |
got the milder air. After the rain goes through the temperatures | :28:25. | :28:30. | |
really do drop away significantly. It will feel a good deal colder. | :28:30. | :28:33. | |
That's the way I think it will stay through the rest of the week. It's | :28:33. | :28:37. |