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Two thirds of hospital staff in England and Wales say they feel | :00:07. | :00:12. | |
unable to care properly for patients with dementia. A national | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
report calls for a radical shake-up. It finds many patients aren't given | :00:15. | :00:22. | |
adequate pain relief and their families are ignored. It was very | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
obvious she was in intense pain, but irrespective of how many times | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
we tried to tell them, they insisted that because she had | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
dimentia it must be a behaviourial problem. Also on tonight's | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
programme - in court, the US soldier accused of leaking hundreds | :00:37. | :00:46. | |
of thousands of military and diplomatic secrets. Nick Clegg | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
tells the French Prime Minister that his Government's criticisms of | :00:50. | :00:59. | |
the UK economy are simply unacceptable. After the death of a | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
five-year-old boy, a coroner blames a hospital for gross failure to | :01:02. | :01:09. | |
provide basic medical attention. I want Harry to make a difference. | :01:09. | :01:16. | |
And, Scotland's been shivering for days. Now other parts of the UK get | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
their first blast of winter. Tough ties ahead for all the British | :01:19. | :01:29. | |
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teams still in the hunt for European silverware. Good evening. | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
Welcome to the BBC News at Six. A radical shake-up is needed in the | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
way the NHS deals with patients with dementia, that's the verdict | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
of the first national audit of dementia care in hospitals in | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
England and Wales. A quarter of hospital beds are occupied by | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
people with dementia, but the report found most staff feel they | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
aren't sufficiently trained to look after them. The Government said | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
while there is some excellent practice, far too many hospitals | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
are failing to provide appropriate care. Here's our health | :02:04. | :02:14. | |
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correspondent, Branwen Jeffreys. With every passing year, the NHS is | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
treating more patients with dimentia. People, for whom hospital | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
can be a frightening and confusing place. Experts say a radical shake- | :02:22. | :02:30. | |
up is needed to cope. The NHS needs to move away from care that is | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
often impersonal. When some hospitals that patients do not | :02:34. | :02:41. | |
receive the specialised attention they deserved. That was the | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
experience of these three women. They can look back on many fond | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
memories of their mum, but they are angry and bitter about some of her | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
hospital care. Mary Goulden had a broken bone and was in pain. But | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
staff from the ward believed her distressed behaviour was caused by | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
her dimentia. Had the staff just taken the time to listen to us | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
instead of assuming that they knew best, but listen, that we knew our | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
mum best and we knew the kind of person she was and she wasn't the | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
kind of person that made a fuss. Never. How widespread are the gaps | :03:19. | :03:28. | |
in dimentia care being given to our elderly? 25% of beds are occupied | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
by dimentia patients. Only 32% of staff said they had had enough | :03:31. | :03:39. | |
training. Just 40% of hospitals had policies to keep families informed. | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
26% of wards in this study said there were not sufficient staff at | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
meal times to help frail patients eat. Some experts say the NHS has | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
to adapt as soon as it can. population in the United Kingdom is | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
living longer. We have more and more elderly people. If we are a | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
civilised society, we have to invest in the care of the elderly. | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
Otherwise, you are just going to get a constant stream of reports | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
that we keep getting on poor standards of care. Now is the time | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
to act. Simple homely touches can make a hospital ward less | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
frightening. Patients with dimentia are easily confused and become | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
agitated. Keeping some of their things nearby and family | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
photographs in sight can help. Some hospitals are already making this | :04:27. | :04:37. | |
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kind of change. Wards that focus on reorientating patients and feels | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
more homely will hopefully reduce those levels of distress and help | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
the patients recover much more quickly. The NHS in England and | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
Wales has been told to make dimentia a priority. For the | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
families of patients, change can't happen fast enough. Why are some | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
hospitals getting it so wrong? clear that some are simply | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
struggling to catch up with the scale of the challenge they are | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
facing. They are already three quarters -- there are already three | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
quarters of a million people with dimentia in the UK. That will rise | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
rapidly. Many will need hospital treatment, not necessarily for | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
dimentia, but maybe simply having a fall. Some hospitals are putting | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
good, clear measures in place and thinking about the layout of wards, | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
using big, bold signs and consulting families, who often know | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
what the person is like when they are out of the hospital environment. | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
To others this is a clear message that they need to begin to think | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
about how they'll cope with what is a massive challenge for Health | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
Services. He's the American soldier accused | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
of leaking hundreds of thousands of military and diplomatic secrets to | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
the website, Wikileaks. Today 23- year-old Bradley Manning appeared | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
in a military court for the first time. He faces charges including | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
aiding the enemy and if convicted could be sentenced to life in | :06:01. | :06:11. | |
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prison. From Maryland, Paul Adams sent this report. A traitor | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
deserving life for a reckless act of disloyalty or vulnerable young | :06:17. | :06:24. | |
man performing a young man, hounded by a military? He's charged with | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
knowingly giving evidence to the enemy through indirect means. In | :06:28. | :06:37. | |
other words, to Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. As an intelligence | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
analyst in Iraq he stumbled across this video, showing an American | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
helicopter attack which killed civilians and journalists. It | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
became the first of his many leaks and caused a sensation. This was | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
the largest leak of classified information in American history. | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
The cables from American embassies all over the world and almost | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
500,000 military records from Iraq and Afghanistan. The scope was | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
breath-taking. Tactics were revealed. Afghan informants were | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
named and senior American diplomats were compromised. This, for many, | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
was the first glimpse of Bradley Manning. He sat in the courtroom | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
here in Fort Meade in uniform, his hands in front of him. He said only | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
that he understood his rights and aidified the lawyers representing | :07:25. | :07:32. | |
him. Who is the man at the heart of this extraordinary story? Born in | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
the Christian Conservative heartland. He rejected religion as | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
a child and questioned his sexuality. He joined the Army, but | :07:40. | :07:47. | |
fell out with colleagues and received counselling. Outside the | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
military base here in Maryland, some of his many supporters are | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
holding a vigil throughout the hearing. He should be given the | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
medal of honour and released. We should continue to try to bring | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
about a transformation of the Government, where secrecy is not | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
overused. To the organisation he served and many other Americans, | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
Bradley Manning seems distinctly less heroic. He faces a probable | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
life sentence if convicted. Bradley Manning stands accused of a serious | :08:19. | :08:27. | |
crime under US law. He's innocent until proven guilty. He took an | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
oath of office to protect and defend the constitution and our | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
national security and protecting information that is pertaining to | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
our national security is part of the fundamental obligation. So far, | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
his defence has tried to question the impartiality of the military | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
court and ask what damage was really done by the leaks. They'll | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
argue that his treatment in detention was often degrading. The | :08:51. | :08:57. | |
hearing is likely to last several days. Here, the Supreme Court has | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
agreed to hear an appeal by the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
Assange, against his extradition to Sweden. He's wanted there to answer | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
sex crime allegations, but argues he will not receive a fair trial. | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
The two-day appeal will be heard in February. The Deputy Prime Minister, | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
Nick Clegg, has told France's Prime Minister that remarks by his | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
government criticising the UK economy are simply unacceptable. In | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
the last few days tension has been ratcheted up between the two | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
countries as several members of the French Government have drawn | :09:24. | :09:25. | |
unfavourable and outspoken comparisons between their economy | :09:25. | :09:35. | |
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and that of the UK. The two have had their differences but over the | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
last week the gap has widened, as frustrations on the French side of | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
the Channel become increasingly clear. It started with the French | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
President's obvious an noise with David Cameron at the recent summit | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
in Brussels, as the UK vetoed the planned treaty change. Now, French | :09:57. | :10:03. | |
ministers are hitting back in a new row over the economy. TRANSLATION: | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
We don't have lessons to give, but we don't want to be given any | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
lessons either. The economic situation in Great Britain is very | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
worrying and we would prefer being French than British from an | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
economic standpoint. This followed an interview by the French Central | :10:19. | :10:27. | |
Bank governor. These comments by French policy makers come in the | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
wake of warnings that France's credit rating could be downgraded | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
within weeks, along with some other eurozone governments. There is | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
reportedly some irritation at crit suxes by British ministers of the | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
handling -- criticisms by British ministers of the handling of the | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
crisis. How does the UK compare with France? This year, British | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
growth is forecast to be around 0.8%. France is set to do better, | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
almost double that. UK Government debt is 84% of annual economic | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
output. France is about the same. While the British Government has to | :11:00. | :11:06. | |
pay just over 2% interest to borrow over ten years, France has to pay | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
nearly 3%, because financial markets think France is more | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
vulnerable. France is seen, not surprisingly, as rather closer to | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
the eye of the starm, with regard to the eurozone -- storm, with | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
regard to the eurozone debt crisis. France has exposure to the | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
vulnerable economies like Greece and the other peripheral economies. | :11:27. | :11:34. | |
There was a blunt message to France from one British MP. They are stuck | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
in the euro at an uncompetitive exchange rate and their government | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
has to spend more interest, borrowing money than the British | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
Government, because we are outside the euro and we have a flexible | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
exchange rate. I think they are rather jealous of our position in | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
some respects. There was no sign of the cross-channel row easing as | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
Nick Clegg told the French Prime Minister in a phone conversation | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
that remarks by French ministers were simply unacceptable. A doctor, | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
who took maternity leave and was then hounded out of her job, has | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
been awarded what could be record damages of �4.5 million by an | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
employment tribunal. Dr Eva Mikalak was dismissed by Pontefract General | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
Infirmary in west Yorkshire in 2008. The tribunal said it was positively | :12:13. | :12:22. | |
outraged by her treatment. Ed Thomas is there for us now. What | :12:22. | :12:32. | |
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happened that she should be awarded such a massive payout? Dr Mikalak | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
faced a five-year campaign of harassment. It was in 2003, when | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
she was seven months pregnant, that senior staff members held a meeting | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
in private, together. They put together a plan to try to get her | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
dismissed. When she returned from leave she faced complaints. She was | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
also accused of bullying junior doctors before eventually being | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
dismissed. Her husband told the tribunal that this had a | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
devastating effect on her health. She now suffers from post-post-. | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
She leaves the iron on and the -- post-traumatic stress disorder. She | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
leaves the iron on and the oven and her husband had to give up his job | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
to take care of her. That's why the tribunal awarded her the | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
compensation. Now, in the last few minutes we have had a response from | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
the NHS trust here. They say they take the findings extremely | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
seriously. They also carried out an independent review of what happened | :13:26. | :13:32. | |
here and found that discrimination was not widespread, but still, | :13:32. | :13:39. | |
they've offered Dr Mikalak a full apology. Two men, who murdered a | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
British couple on their honeymoon, have been given three consecutive | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
life sentences. Avie Howell and Kaniel Martin were handed three | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
consecutive life sentences at the High Court in Antigua. Ben and | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
Catherine Mullany, from South Wales, were killed on the island in July. | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
They were shot in the back of the head. Three couples have failed in | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
their attempt to challenge a law which requires people to speak | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
English before they can settle with their spouse in Britain. The High | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
Court dismissed their claim that the legislation breaches their | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
right to a family life and their right to marry. A coroner has ruled | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
that a five-year-old boy died after gross failures at Milton Keynes | :14:11. | :14:17. | |
Hospital to provide basic medical attention. Harry Mould died from a | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
lack of oxygen to the brain after two days of treatment at the | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
hospital for an asthma attack. The coroner said Harry would probably | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
have survived if doctors had monitored him properly. Jeremy | :14:25. | :14:35. | |
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Five years old, full of life. Harry Mould was a bright, gifted boy, | :14:38. | :14:44. | |
along with his twin sister Jessica or at the centre of family life. | :14:44. | :14:51. | |
But one month later, tragedy. Harry was dead. He had been admitted to | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
Milton Keynes General Hospital on 26th March, 2009 with breathing | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
difficulties. Harry initially responded well to treatment which | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
was then reduced. But when his condition worsened it was not | :15:03. | :15:10. | |
picked up by the medical team. He died on March 30th. After a two | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
week hearing the coroner has delivered a damning verdict. He | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
said there was a gross failure to provide basic medical attention for | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
Harry and he concluded that if proper action had been taken, Harry | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
would probably have survived. His mum and dad told me that that is | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
perhaps the most difficult thing they have to deal with. We have | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
always believed that, absolutely. That is the hardest thing to get | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
into our heads and to explain to our daughter, Jessica. When she | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
does ask these questions and one day she will, we have to tell her | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
that they could have made a difference to Harry's life. Harry's | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
parents have been at the inquest every day, as have the executives | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
of the hospital trust who heard that the five-year-old's treatment | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
was negligent. That has upset me hugely. I'm determined that we as a | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
hospital will not go back anywhere near to that status again. What you | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
said the family who have sat through these two weeks? I have | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
apologised to the parents in court and I have apologised to them | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
outside. Following Harry Mould's death, Milton Keynes hospital says | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
it has made radical improvements to ensure that nothing like this can | :16:29. | :16:38. | |
never happen again. Our top story tonight: A national | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
report calls for a radical shake-up of dementia care in hospitals in | :16:42. | :16:48. | |
England and Wales. Coming up: After Scotland, an icy blast hits Wales | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
and parts of England as the wintry conditions spread. | :16:53. | :16:59. | |
Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News, it is a walk in the park for Lee | :16:59. | :17:09. | |
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Westwood. He is 11 shots clear at It is nine months since a giant | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
tsunami swept across north-eastern Japan killing more than 15,000 | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
people. It also caused a meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear plant, the | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
world's worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl. Now the government | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
says the reactors are stable and radiation leaks significantly | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
reduced. People evacuated from some of the less contaminated areas may | :17:37. | :17:44. | |
at last be able to return home. They became known as the Fukushima | :17:44. | :17:50. | |
50, the men who saved Japan. Braving explosions and knockdowns | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
in the days after the nuclear plant was crippled by a tsunami. In | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
recent months, thousands more have joined them inside. Now the | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
reactors have been stabilised. TRANSLATION: Since I took office I | :18:05. | :18:12. | |
have been saying for Japan to be reborn. Fukushima had to be saved. | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
The nuclear power plant accident needed to be stabilised. Since 11th | :18:16. | :18:22. | |
March, we have been working with our full force to get the reactors | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
under control. There is still a 12 mile exclusion zone around the | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
nuclear power station but today's Mears is encouraging. The nuclear | :18:31. | :18:38. | |
material, the heart of the reaction process has to be kept cool. -- the | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
news are encouraging. If the rods are not cooled, they will melt and | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
that is what has happened partly already. Now there is a degree of | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
stability. The reactor is said to be in cold shutdown. Cooling water | :18:52. | :18:58. | |
remains below bowling -- boiling point. But the no-go zone is likely | :18:58. | :19:04. | |
to remain off-limits for years. Homes lying empty. Farm animals | :19:04. | :19:10. | |
roaming wild. A flat on the 26th floor of a Tokyo tower block is | :19:10. | :19:16. | |
where this couple live now. The review is good but it cannot | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
replace the garden they planned to spend their retirement tending. | :19:20. | :19:30. | |
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Where is our life? We don't know where we belong. I cannot discard | :19:31. | :19:37. | |
away our old house and garden. They are waiting for us, I believe. | :19:37. | :19:43. | |
Japan, the challenge now is to keep the lights on in its great cities | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
like Tokyo. Local fears me nearly all of the country's reactors are | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
off-line. The government must either persuade people they can be | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
operated safely or find alternative sources of power. At Fukushima, the | :19:57. | :20:07. | |
plan now is to dismantle the plant. But the workers who tend the | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
reactors will be old or gone before the job is finished. It could take | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
more than 30 years. Labour has won the Feltham and | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
Heston by-election with an increased majority. Turnout in the | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
west London constituency was just 29 %, the lowest for a decade. The | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
Labour leader Ed Miliband described his party's victory as a verdict on | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
the government's economic policies. The Conservatives were second and | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
the Liberal Democrats third. The writer Christopher Hitchens has | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
died aged 62. Best known for his polemic journalism and essays, Mr | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
Hitchens who wrote principally for Vanity Fair was suffering from | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
cancer. Among those paying tribute, the novelist Salman Rushdie said a | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
great voice had fallen silent. Tony Blair described him as an | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
extraordinary, compelling human being. | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
It is a year since councils England found out how much less money they | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
would be getting from central government. Ministers described the | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
deal as fair but Labour said poorest areas would be hardest hit. | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
County Durham is one of the poorest parts of the country. Our local | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
government correspondent went to the town of Crook to assess the | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
damage a year on. County Durham has known hard | :21:20. | :21:26. | |
economic times before. The council's spending so -- squeeze | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
has brought new challenges. Until recently, the town of Crook was | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
proud of its leisure centre. I used to go four times a week. That is | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
now closed. Residents wait for the demolition. People in the community | :21:41. | :21:47. | |
are devastated. They cannot believe it has happened. This was the | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
heartbeat of A crook. Everyone used to come here. | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
Crook's Youth Theatre Group echoes the concern. Cutbacks may threaten | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
their performances. In the long term I am worried. The landscape | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
has changed so much that it is hard to tell what might be here in three | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
or four years' time for the young people who are here tonight. | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
council says it is protecting the things which people said Warren | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
Porter like road repairs. Assurances have also been given on | :22:18. | :22:26. | |
the future of the library. This is exactly the kind of place critics | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
say get a raw deal. Money is down 7%. But the council has almost | :22:32. | :22:39. | |
�2,000 to spend per household. That is more than other authorities. How | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
does the council leader respond to the view that the cuts are a | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
necessary. The government says councils are finding clever ways to | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
make savings and not cutting services. Why are you not doing | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
that? It is simply not true to say you can take it all out of the back | :22:56. | :23:02. | |
office, no one will notice. It does not work out like that. It is not | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
possible. It has to have an impact on services. It is having an impact | :23:05. | :23:12. | |
on services. With less money around, some are learning to fend for | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
themselves. The leader of Crook's jujitsu Club says he does not want | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
or need Council grants, just the use of empty buildings. You have to | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
support yourself. That is what these kids are doing in some ways | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
by learning self-defence and that is what we need to do as a | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
community. We could put some life back into the community. His ideas | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
of self-reliance may not appeal to everyone but councils are having to | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
think carefully about the value of every activity they support us | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
funding becomes more of a struggle. The last two remaining British | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
teams in this year's Champions League have been handed tricky | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
draws and the first knockout round of competition. Arsenal were drawn | :23:55. | :24:01. | |
against AC Milan and Chelsea face Napoli hook at 10 their place at | :24:01. | :24:07. | |
the expense of Manchester City. Visitors to Edinburgh Zoo were able | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
to see the giant pandas for the first time today. Visitors with | :24:12. | :24:19. | |
pre- -- pre-booked tickets were given 30 minutes lots to see Tian | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
Tian and Yang Guang. Parts of Scotland have been | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
shivering in the snow for some days now. Today was the turn of other | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
parts of the UK to feel the first icy blast of winter. Areas in | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
England, Northern Ireland and Wales have seen heavy snow and | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
treacherous driving conditions. Colette Hume is in the Brecon | :24:41. | :24:47. | |
Beacons. The temperature is already way below freezing here on the | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
mountains of the Brecon Beacons. Pen Y Fan is just across the road | :24:51. | :24:58. | |
from me. As you can see, the snow is continuing to fall. | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
It was the day that winter came to Wales. Heavy snow brought freezing | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
temperatures to parts of the country. Making driving conditions | :25:08. | :25:17. | |
difficult and dangerous. Police warned motorists not to travel in | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
the worst affected areas unless their journeys were essential. | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
Drive with care and make sure you have got your safety kit in your | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
car like a top up mobile phone. Make sure your windscreen wipers | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
are ready to go, check your tyre pressures and the depth of your | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
tyres as well. The Brecon Beacons National Park is one of the most | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
popular destinations in the UK for walkers and climbers but mountain | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
rescue teams say conditions on these peaks today would challenge | :25:45. | :25:52. | |
even the most experienced. The snow began to fall in the early hours. | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
Parts of the A 55, the main route across North Wales was closed for a | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
time and motorists faced long delays. Meanwhile, there was a | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
heavy fall overnight in Scotland. Six centimetres in Glasgow caused | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
difficulties on some roads. In England, the North was among | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
regions affected but generally, the destruction was kept to a minimum. | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
Back in the Brecon Beacons, those who could make the best of the | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
wintry conditions. Forecasters in Wales say more snow might be on the | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
way with temperatures expected to dip below freezing. The | :26:30. | :26:32. | |
temperatures are well below freezing already I can tell you | :26:32. | :26:38. | |
here. It is not as bad as it was last year when we all had that | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
terrible snow but what local councils here are saying is that | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
they are confident this year that if the heavy snow does continue, | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
they will have a -- they will have enough grit to keep the roads | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
running. Thank you. Get indoors and keep | :26:51. | :27:01. | |
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For most of us there will not be more snow. The brief cold snap will | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
not last long and it will get milder next week. The main concern | :27:05. | :27:11. | |
is ice. It will be cold and frosty tonight. Wintry showers will wash | :27:11. | :27:18. | |
salt off the roads. There are one or two it rain and sleet showers in | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
the south-east at the moment. Most of the snow is above high ground. | :27:23. | :27:29. | |
For many of us, ice will be the concerns. In Scotland there will be | :27:30. | :27:35. | |
some icy stretches. A band of wintry showers pushing down through | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
Lincolnshire and toured the South East. It will cloud over with some | :27:40. | :27:46. | |
dampness for a time. Cornwall is seeing temperatures staying above | :27:46. | :27:50. | |
freezing on the road surfaces of ice is not a concern here but | :27:50. | :27:55. | |
certainly across Wales, it is snowing over higher ground. Ice | :27:55. | :27:59. | |
will be a feature as it will be across Northern Ireland with some | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
heavy wintry showers across the north coast in particular. As we go | :28:03. | :28:06. | |
through the day there will become so showers moving down from the | :28:06. | :28:13. | |
north-west. Much of the snow is restricted to the higher levels. In | :28:13. | :28:17. | |
any sunshine out of the breeze it will not feel too bad but it will | :28:17. | :28:22. | |
be a cold day. Then we do it all again tomorrow night. Temperatures | :28:22. | :28:27. | |
plunge down, it will be a very cold night, probably colder than tonight. | :28:28. | :28:33. | |
A frosty, crunchy start. Plenty of sunshine on Sunday. A lovely crisp | :28:33. | :28:43. | |
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