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The Government has said there is no evidence to recommend the urgent | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
removal of substandard breast implants. It will cover the cost | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
for the small minority of women who had their surgery on the NHS, but | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
not if it was done privately. don't know where it's left me. I | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
don't have the funds to have these removed, so now I have to walk | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
around with ill health. Nobody knows. This could get worse. Also | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
on tonight's programme: The parents of the murdered Indian | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
student Anuj Bidve retrace their son's final steps. Anuj was our | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
only son, and we cannot comprehend this terrible tragedy. We do not | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
blame the people of this city for what happened. The only person we | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
blame is the man responsible for taking Anuj away from us. David | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
Cameron's new plans to improve nursing care in England including | :00:59. | :01:08. | |
hourly ward rounds. And Amir Khan's appeal in his | :01:08. | :01:14. | |
defeat. He asks who is the man in the hat, and did he interfere with | :01:15. | :01:24. | |
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Good evening. Welcome to the BBC News at 6.00pm. The Government has | :01:44. | :01:54. | |
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just announced it will pay for the That accounts for just 5% of the | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
40,000 British women who have used the silicone implants. A Government | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
review has concluded there's no evidence to recommend their routine | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
removal. That contrasts with the stance of the French government | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
which has agreed to fund the removal of the implants. | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
These breast implants are being filled with medically tested | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
silicone. The company in north Lanarkshire is the only British | :02:18. | :02:25. | |
firm which makes them. By contrast, the French PIP implants had | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
industrial-grade silicone and were banned. Health officials in the | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
Czech Republic followed France's lead today recommending women have | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
PIP implants removed as a precaution. The official line here | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
is there is no need for removal, but the NHS will pay for | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
replacement implants if cancer patients are suffering anxiety. | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
What is rather important is not to exaggerate the reasons to be | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
worried, but if women are worried, we'll support them. We expect - I | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
expect - and the expert group want to see private providers offer that | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
same standard of care. It's thought 40,000 or more women have PIP | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
implants. 95% were done by private clinics, mostly for breast | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
enlargement, 5% by the NHS for breast reconstruction after cancer. | :03:18. | :03:25. | |
Karen Arthur is now desperate to have her PIP implants removed. One | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
has ruptured. Ministers say private clinics have a moral obligation to | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
help patients like her, but there are no legal powers to force them. | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
I don't know where it's left me. I don't have the funds to actually | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
have these removed, so now I have to walk around with ill health. | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
Nobody knows. This could get worse. No-one can look into the future. | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
This has only come out now. This comes down to an assessment of risk. | :03:51. | :03:58. | |
Every woman undergoing implant surgery is told there is a danger | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
of complications. Eventually, Theresa May all need to be replaced. | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
The Government review group considered whether the PIP implants | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
carried additional, unacceptable risks that would require their | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
removal. They are very robust. surgeon says private clinics should | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
pay for replacements, but women must not be abandoned by the NHS. | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
They didn't know the risk that they'd be implanted with non- | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
medical-grade implants. The NHS picks up the bill for smoking and | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
alcohol-related diseases. We all know that smoking and alcohol can | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
cause problems and yet the NHS still picks up the bill. | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
The Government's decision means women who cannot persuade private | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
clinics to help them will have to pay for replacements like these or | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
simply live with their PIP implants. Fergus, this suggests one outcome | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
for NHS patients and a different outcome for private patients, and | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
women will just be wanting to know, where these safe or aren't they? | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
The official line on safety hasn't changed. There is no need, say | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
Ministers, for routine removal, no evidence of cancer no, specific | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
safety concerns. What is new is the psychological impact. Ministers | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
accept women are worried about this. There is deep anxiety. If NHS | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
patients after seeing their surgeon say I want them replaced, the NHS | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
will cover the costs. That covers one in 20 patients. The rest were | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
done privately. What about those women? Well, lots of those clinics | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
have shot down. These were largely cut-price clinics. Lots are not | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
there anymore. There are one or two firms Whoa have said they'll pick | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
up the bill. The rest will either have to pay for them or fight to | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
have them replaced. Thank you. The parents of an Indian student | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
who was shot dead in Salford on Boxing Day have paid an emotional | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
visit to the scene of his murder. 23-year-old Anuj Bidve, who was | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
studying at Lancaster University, was shot at point blank range while | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
he was out with friends. Judith Moritz is in Salford. This was | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
obviously a very traumatic day for his parents. | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
Yes, it was. This unassuming Salford side street has become | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
something of a focal point now for the community here. It's where Anuj | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
Bidve was killed. It's where a mass of floral tributes have been left | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
for him, and it's where today his parents came to see for themselves | :06:24. | :06:34. | |
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the spot where their son's life ended. Four,500 miles from home, | :06:34. | :06:43. | |
Anuj Bidve's mother laid flowers where her son was had lain dead. | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
It's 11 day since the 23-year-old student was killed, shot at close | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
range. The family say it was important to come here. | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
This has been an extremely difficult journey to make. Anuj | :06:54. | :07:00. | |
left in September last year. He was full of hope and ambition for the | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
future. We were all so very proud of him. Anuj was our only son, and | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
we cannot comprehend this dreadful tragedy. | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
REPORTER: It must have been a very emotional experience following your | :07:12. | :07:20. | |
son's footsteps today. Can you put that into words for us? There are | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
no words, ma'am. All our - the world is finished for us. That's | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
what I can say. In the early hours of boxing day, Anuj was with a | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
group of fellow student whence they were approached by two men. One | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
spoke to him briefly and shot him in the head. 20-year-old Kieran | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
Stapleton has been charged with murder. He told the court his name | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
was "Psycho" Stapleton. During today's visit, the family spoke to | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
local people who had come to offer support. We met him, and we said, | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
you know, that it was an awful moment, and we are here to give | :07:55. | :08:01. | |
full support to you. I just came just to give condolences to Anuj's | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
family. The Bidve family say they have faith in the British justice | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
system and the police investigation. Anuj's parents will now fly back | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
with their son's body to take him back to the country he left just | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
four months ago. Co-incidentally, David Cameron was also in Salford | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
today promoting a Government health initiative. The Prime Minister | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
didn't meet with the family in person, but this afternoon he did | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
speak by phone to Subhash Bidve, and in that conversation, he | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
promised Anuj's father that the police and the judiciary would do | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
everything in their power to do justice for Anuj. | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
Thank you. David Cameron says he wants to | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
improve standards of nursing in the NHS in England. Among a number of | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
proposals, the Prime Minister wants nurses to conduct hourly ward | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
rounds to make sure patients are comfortable and have enough to eat. | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
He's also backed the idea of patients having a role in hospital | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
inspections.Our health correspondent Jane Hughes reports. | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
No paperwork here at all - that's what we like to see. It's the bug | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
bear of nurses everywhere - now David Cameron is calling for them | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
to be freed of paperwork and given more time with patients. In a visit | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
to Salford Royal Hospital, he called for a complete reset of the | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
approach to care. Of course there is always pressure on NHS resources, | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
but the hospital I'm standing in right now shows that with the right | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
management, with the right standards, with the right level of | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
hourly ward rounds by nurses you can have good standards of care. | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
The Prime Minister promised that patients, not paperwork, would be | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
nurses' top priority. He promised hourly nursing ward rounds in every | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
hospital, patients and members of the public doing hospital | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
inspections and a new watchdog body to promote best practising in | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
nursing. For business Pryor, the changes can't come soon enough. | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
When her mother went to hospital, she was denied even her most basic | :09:57. | :10:04. | |
dignities, left to wet her bad, get badly dehydrated and to develop an | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
infection. It was the basic nursing care that I was very upset by. The | :10:07. | :10:13. | |
medical care was fine. It was the basics - TLC. What saddened me is | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
that mum died two years ago, and still here I am talking to you | :10:16. | :10:24. | |
about all these things. How are you this afternoon? Some ask why nurses | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
should be told to do things which seem so central to their job? In | :10:30. | :10:36. | |
North London, regular ward rounds are already routine. Over the years | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
with the bureaucracy and administrative - that have been | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
built up, nurses have been taken away from the bedside. This is to | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
make sure nurses focus on their role and their job. For nurses, | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
this all feels we'reingly familiar, another in a series of initiatives | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
designed to improve patient care. Some are asking how it sits with | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
the Government's commitment to end NHS targets and to take the | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
politics out of health care. It was Labour Party which brought in | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
targets. They say the Prime Minister's taking the wrong | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
approach. How will it help improve nursing standards when we're seeing | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
48,000 nursing posts cut on his watch in the NHS in England while | :11:18. | :11:24. | |
at the same time he's spending �3.5 billion on a pointless back room | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
reorganisation? And the question being asked by the Patients' | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
Association is whether the Prime Minister's rhetoric today will be | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
turned into reality tomorrow. Police investigating phone hacking | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
have arrested a long-serving former assistant to the ex-News of the | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
World Editor Rebekah Brooks. The woman's been questioned on | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice and released | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
on bail. She's understood to be 47- year-old Cheryl Carter from Essex | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
who'd worked for other news international executives and was | :11:48. | :11:56. | |
also Beauty Editor at the Sun. The male nurse arrested at Stepping | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
Hill Hospital in Stockport has been named locally as Victorino Chua. | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
He's being questioned on suspicion of administering or causing a | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
person to take a poisonous substance. Police are not linking | :12:05. | :12:13. | |
his arrest with the deaths of four patients at the hospital. The 46- | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
year-old worked on the same wards where the patients died last summer. | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
A bomb attack in central Damascus has killed 26 people and wounded | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
dozens more according to the Syrian Interior Ministry. Reports suggest | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
a "powerful explosion" was caused by a suicide bomber in a heavily | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
populated neighbourhood. It's the third such attack in the capital in | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
a fortnight. The boxer Amir Khan has accused an | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
unidentified man of "interfering" with officials and the judges' | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
scorecards during his world title defeat by American Lamont Peterson. | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
The mystery man can be seen talking to one of the match supervisors | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
during the fight. Khan's appeal against the controversial result, | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
which cost him his WBA and IBF light-welterweight titles, will be | :12:52. | :13:00. | |
held later this month. Our sports correspondent Andy Swiss reports. | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
Few sports do controversy quite like boxing. Last month Amir Khan | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
thought he'd outclassed Peterson, but the judges thought otherwise. | :13:08. | :13:14. | |
Peterson in front of his home crowd was awarded a narrow points win. | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
Cue anger and deepening intrigue. The reason - an unidentified man in | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
a hat who Khan believes interfered with the officials. At first he | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
sits next to them in the front row. He's asked to move, but by the | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
second round, the mystery man is back and stays this. In the second | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
round he seems to pass a paper along the panel of judges. Come the | :13:35. | :13:43. | |
11th round, he picks up a yellow slip, one of the score cards Khan | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
believes and spoke with an official. He later celebrated with an | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
official, all very curious. Khan told me he wants answers about what | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
was going on. Whenever the judges are judging a fight and the | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
commission, no-one is allowed to talk to them. No-one is allowed to | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
handle paperwork and stuff like that. It's just a question I asked. | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
I asked the commission, and they didn't get back to me, so I I put | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
it on twitter so everyone gets to see it. It's big news. I just want | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
to know who this person was and it would be nice know what his role | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
was. This is a big issue in sport. If it was any other sport, it would | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
have caused a big fuss. Now I am causing a big fuss about this | :14:26. | :14:32. | |
because I don't want this to happen to any other fighters. Here at his | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
training centre in Bolton, there is controversy about his defeat. Now | :14:36. | :14:46. | |
the World Boxing Association says they'll investigate. | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
The boxing authoritying insist the score card hadn't been tampered | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
with. Others believe there was nothing sinister. That was a close | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
fight. If Amir Khan could have won, I don't think you could have argued | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
too much. If Mr Peterson won, you couldn't have argued too much. | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
it dodgy scoring or just a bad case of sour grapes? Amir Khan's appeal | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
against the decision will be formally heard later this month. | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
The fisticuffs might have finished, but this battle certainly hasn't. | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
The time is 6.15pm. Our top story tonight: | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
The Government says there is no evidence for removing substandard | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
breast implants but will remove the minority of implants provided on | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
the NHS. Coming up: | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
# Paint me a picture I can see # The new kid on the block - the soul | :15:41. | :15:51. | |
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singer following in the footsteps Despite the economic gloom, the | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
number of cars made in Britain in the last 12 months has gone up | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
significantly. But they're not being bought here. New car sales in | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
Britain are down. The majority are being shipped abroad which is good | :16:16. | :16:24. | |
news for British exports and the economy as John Moylan reports. | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
He car-making is not what it used to be. This is the Formula One | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
giant, McLaren's state-of-the-art plant in Surrey. The sports cars | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
cost around �175,000 each. It is out of the reach of most of us, but | :16:40. | :16:47. | |
the company's order book is full of overseas buyers. For any country | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
economy having a manufacturing basis is a fund a melting building- | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
block. You have history and Technology Inc all blended together | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
and you can sell in the global marketplace. There is up on a | :17:00. | :17:06. | |
normal amount of money globally and McLaren wants to be out there. | :17:06. | :17:12. | |
likes of Bentley and Rolls-Royce have been taking their share. But - | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
- across the board 2012 is likely to be a record year for car exports. | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
It is not just McLaren doing well. Industry figures are expected to | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
show the UK manufactured 1.3 5 million cars last year, and that's | :17:27. | :17:35. | |
expected to rise to 1.45 million this year. It is a far cry from the | :17:35. | :17:42. | |
1970s. We churned out a more cars and exported just over half of them. | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
Now four out of five cars are made here go overseas and the big names | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
are gearing up to meet that demand. In the past 12 months, Jaguar and | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
Land Rover splashed out on a new plant and new jobs as sales took | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
off. The owner of many committed half a billion pounds, securing | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
production for years to come. Meanwhile, Nissan made almost half | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
a million cars in Sunderland, a new record for a British plan. The UK | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
car industry has done well, partly on the back of the depreciation of | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
sterling which makes UK exports more attractive overseas. We are | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
making premium cars that is attracted to a middle class | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
emerging in China. If exports are booming. This car is off to Beverly | :18:29. | :18:35. | |
Hills. As the Government seeks to rebalance the struggling economy, | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
the motor industry is in pole position. | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
The outdoor-clothing retailer Blacks looks set to be taken over | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
by JD Sports, after the company announced it was going into | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
administration with debts of �36 million. The new owner is expected | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
to take on all 308 stores, which include branches of Millets. Blacks | :18:50. | :18:56. | |
currently employs 3,500 staff. There have been more problems with | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
the London Olympics ticket website today. Organisers have had to | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
temporarily stop customers from putting up for sale any tickets | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
they no longer want, after the site was slow to update sessions which | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
had already sold out. Our sports correspondent, James Pearce, is at | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
the Olympic Park in East London. It's not the first time there have | :19:12. | :19:19. | |
been problems. Is this a bit embarrassing for the organisers? | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
bit embarrassing is the understatement of the New Year. It | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
is extremely embarrassing for London 2012 and for Ticketmaster. | :19:28. | :19:34. | |
It should have been simple. It was a way to combat the ticket touts, a | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
resale process. If you have a ticket you don't want, we should be | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
able to log on, explain which tickets you did not once, click on | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
a button and they would be put on sale. Once they were sold, the | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
money you had originally paid would have been credited to your account. | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
It ended up being more complicated. Initially those who put tickets are | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
on sale got a message saying "you'll request cannot be | :20:00. | :20:07. | |
processed". Some of them were put the sale when they have been sold | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
hours before. The thousands of people were trying to buy tickets | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
that did not exist. At theme from earlier in the week when | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
synchronised swimming tickets were sold that did not exist. About | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
10,000 of those tickets have to be exchanged. All in all a bad start | :20:23. | :20:29. | |
for the year for London 2012. This year's Irish Open Golf | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
Championship will be staged at Royal Port Rush in Northern Ireland | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
- for the first time since 1947. It follows the phenomenal success of | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
local golfing superstars such as Rory McIlroy, Darren Clarke and | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
Graeme McDowell, with three major wins in little over a year. Mark | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
Simpson, is at Royal Port Rush for us, this is a real boost the sport | :20:46. | :20:56. | |
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in Northern Ireland? No doubt about it. This is a big | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
breakthrough for Northern Ireland Sports. One of the biggest | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
tournaments in Europe is coming to the edge of Europe. This quiet | :21:03. | :21:09. | |
little corner in north Antrim. My report does contain some flash | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
photography. It is the silver lining for | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
Northern Ireland's three major winners. Rory McIlroy, Graeme | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
McDowell and Darren Clarke will get to play on home soil, when the | :21:21. | :21:27. | |
Irish Open comes to Royal Port Rush in June. It is the biggest golf | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
tournament in Northern Ireland for half a century. And it could | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
attract some of the biggest names in the game. Fantastic for the fans. | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
To bring it to one of the best courses in Ireland, the Irish Open | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
is going to be brilliant. I hope we get the crowds and the support. | :21:45. | :21:51. | |
Rory McIlroy will be there. The US Open champion, plays much of his | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
golf in America, but he will be back for the Irish Open. It is nice | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
to come home and support your home tournament and maybe bring a bit of | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
joy back into some people's lives by playing your home event. I am | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
looking forward to getting there and trying to win it. | :22:09. | :22:15. | |
The Open golf Championship is held for the first time in Ireland. | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
was in 1951. Since then, Northern Ireland has struggled to get big | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
sporting events. The Irish Open coming here is a tribute to | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
Northern Ireland's new political stability and golfing success. The | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
timing of the tournament could hardly be better. Northern Ireland | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
is currently going through a golfing boom. At the shop in Bangor, | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
they sold more junior sets of clubs last year than in the previous 10 | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
years. It is where a young Rory McIlroy used to get his clubs and | :22:47. | :22:54. | |
he is now starting a trend. We have got Rory McIlroy, Darren Clarke and | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
they are local heroes. The young have grown up with that and it has | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
made a massive impact on local golf, especially in the north. If the | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
tournament goes well this summer, it could come back into contention | :23:09. | :23:15. | |
for the Open Championship. Of course, that is the big prize. | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
The Open Championship one day. But the Irish Open is a good start, and | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
there's every golfer knows, a good start is very important. | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
The radio and television presenter, Bob Holness, has died at the age of | :23:28. | :23:38. | |
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83. He had a career spanning 60 years but was best known as the | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
host of the quiz show Blockbusters. Mr Holness' health deteriorated | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
following a number of minor strokes. His family said he died peacefully | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
in his sleep this morning. An unassuming soul singer from | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
London has won the BBC's Sound of 2012 award. Michael Kiwanuka, came | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
top of the poll of music industry insiders to find the most exciting | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
new artist of the year. Previous winners include Adele, Jessie J and | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
Ellie Goulding. The 23-three-year old singer said he felt "honoured | :24:06. | :24:16. | |
and humble to have won". We have been to meet him. | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
Michael Kiwanuka may have won the accolade of BBC Sound of 2012, but | :24:21. | :24:27. | |
his music and timeless quality will probably feel as at home in the | :24:27. | :24:37. | |
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1970s, as it does today. I never expected to be the winner. It will | :24:39. | :24:47. | |
be a great platform for me. It is a dream for any magician. I feel very | :24:47. | :24:54. | |
happy and humble to be part of that. -- musician. Over the past few | :24:54. | :25:04. | |
months, he has been winning some high-profile fans. And the North | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
London singer, songwriter is earning favourable comparisons to | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
artists like Marvin Gaye. In part, thanks to his use of digital | :25:14. | :25:21. | |
recording equipment to achieve a vintage sound. The list is put | :25:21. | :25:27. | |
together by asking more than 180 people, ranging from a music | :25:27. | :25:33. | |
writers and DJs to name their favourite new artist. Recent winner | :25:33. | :25:43. | |
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-- winners include Jessie J. Ellie Golding. And an Adele. | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
Some have accused us of becoming too mainstream at the expense of | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
independent music, partially as a consequence of major record | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
companies deliberately promoting a particular artist, when the list is | :26:00. | :26:06. | |
being compiled. One palace disagrees. The record companies are | :26:06. | :26:12. | |
were this could help and gives an enormous boost. The do push singers | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
towards it. But to get to the top of the list people vote for things | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
that are good. You have to be pretty good to get to the top of | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
the list. With so many convinced of Michael's potential, great things | :26:25. | :26:31. | |
are expected from him over the next 12 months and beyond. | :26:31. | :26:41. | |
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Bit of Sunshine, a bit of rain this weekend. Nothing to exceptional. We | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
do have some week France crossing the country. They are producing | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
outbreaks of rain, notably across the western parts of the UK. Damp | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
and drizzly weather. No great amounts and bits and pieces will | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
spread to other areas pushed on by the wind. Most of the rain will | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
clear through in the night but showers will follow on to the north | :27:05. | :27:11. | |
of Scotland. Not a desperately cold night. We should avoid a frost. | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
Tomorrow is looking OK. Bright and breezy, nice for a walk. Sunshine | :27:16. | :27:25. | |
just about every work. Cloud pushed on by the breeze. A few fleeting | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
showers. The sharpest will be across the North of Scotland where | :27:29. | :27:34. | |
there could be snow over the mountain tops. Most places, it will | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
be reasonable with further spells of Sunshine persisting in the | :27:37. | :27:42. | |
afternoon. There are the showers across the far north of Scotland, | :27:42. | :27:47. | |
Chile in the wind. Working South, most of the cloud is towards more | :27:47. | :27:53. | |
western coastal areas. Into the North Midlands, maybe Lincolnshire. | :27:53. | :27:58. | |
They won't last long and many places will avoid them. | :27:58. | :28:03. | |
Temperatures around 8, nine degrees. You may have her there have been | :28:03. | :28:07. | |
copious amounts of the white stuff in the Alps. It has caused | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
avalanches and problems to British tourists. The threat of snow pushes | :28:11. | :28:16. | |
east across the Alps this weekend. All in all, a lot of snow for | :28:16. | :28:24. | |
skiing. No snow at home on Sunday, but there will be rain pushing into | :28:24. | :28:28. | |
the West. After a bright start it will be clouding over. But for most | :28:28. | :28:33. | |
of us, it is looking good. More information about the snow | :28:33. | :28:40. | |
conditions in the Alps can be found A reminder of the news: The | :28:41. | :28:44. |