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The private company that fitted more low-grade breast implants than | :00:13. | :00:19. | |
any other refuses to replace them. It says PIP implants were approved | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
by the medical watchdog and replacing them would leave them | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
bankrupt We don't have the finance, the resource, we don't have the | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
hospitals, we don't have the GPs. We don't have that facility. They | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
are going to lose a lot of money over there. Rightly so. They have | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
made a lot of money over it. They should also lose. Also on tonight's | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
programme: The average Gas Bill looks set to fall. EDF Energy is | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
the latest to cut its charge. Could a price war follow? The couple | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
discovered dead in their home by their policeman son. 60 fellow | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
officers mount a massive manhunt. Twitter becomes the latest social | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
networking site to be infiltrated by paedophiles. A special report. A | :01:06. | :01:12. | |
revamp for computer lessons in England. Pupils should create games, | :01:12. | :01:22. | |
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not just play them. Coming later on sport's day - it's all change, Mike | :01:22. | :01:32. | |
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Tindall is left out by the interim Hello. Welcome to the BBC's news at | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
6pm. A private medical company at the heart of the best implant scare | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
has blamed the Government saying its own watchdog approved the | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
products. Harley Medical Group, which fitted more of the sub | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
standard implants than any other said it would go out of business if | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
it took responsibility for replacing them. As our medical | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
correspondent reports, while ministers and private companies | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
argue about who is to blame, thousands of women remain confused | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
and worried. Who is responsible? That is the | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
question at the heart of the PIP scandal, affecting around 40,000 | :02:18. | :02:25. | |
British women. For the Government, it's the clinics. | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
But in his first interview, the boss of the firm which did nearly | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
14,000 PIP implants, says it is ministers. You are saying the NHS - | :02:35. | :02:42. | |
the Government - has a moral responsibility to these women. | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
Don't you have a moral responsibility? We don't have the | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
resources, we don't have the GPs. We are not geared up for that type | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
of facility. The NHS is geared up for that sort of facility. This is | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
a massive problem, created by the Government's agency, and they must | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
accept moral responsibility. They must do something for patients. | :03:06. | :03:12. | |
Harley Medical Group's publicity talks of inspiring confidence in | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
patients. Its refusal to replace implants for free is hardly likely | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
to do that. The company says it would go out of business if it | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
picked up the tab. Gemma has no sympathy. Her PIP | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
implants were fitted by the Harley Medical Group just days before they | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
were banned. The fact that they are blaming the | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
Government is, for me, just a way out. They are trying to find | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
something to grasp on to, because obviously they will lose a lot of | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
money over this. Rightly so. They have made a lot over it. They | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
should also lose. Almost all PIP implants were done privately. | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
Eight clinics, who treated 3,000 women say they will remove and | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
replace implants for free. The rest have either refused, not made their | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
position clear or gone out of business. For those women, if they | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
live in Wales, the NHS will remove and replace their implants. In the | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
rest of the UK private patients will be offered removal only under | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
the NHS. Ministers say clinics should do it. | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
The professional associations of surgeons have made it clear they | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
are recommending to members they should assist with this surgery, if | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
needed, without surgical charge. So, to that extent, I can not see why | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
it should not be possible for private providers, even including | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
the Harley Medical Group, who were among the largest of the providers | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
to be able to achieve this on behalf of their patients Dutch | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
health experts followed French and German officials, recommending the | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
removal of PIP implants as a precaution. Ministers here continue | :04:51. | :04:58. | |
to insist that is not needed. This private company has got a | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
point, hasn't it? The products were approved by the medical watchdog? | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
All medical products like implants and hips have to have a CE mark, to | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
say they are fit for use. That is the same mark you get for a new toy. | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
The tests on those are not nearly as strict as you would on a new | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
medicine. The Harley Medical Group said the medical watchdog here | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
approved the PIP implants and they did not pick up problems early | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
enough. The Government says, if you buy a new car, who do you blame? | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
The Government? No, you go back to the prn who sold it to you. So it | :05:33. | :05:42. | |
is the clinics who are responsible. We are likely to see tighter rules | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
Governing the cosmetic surgery industry. One of the largest energy | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
companies, EDF, will cut gas prices by 5% from next month, after a drop | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
in wholesale costs. It's the first time they have reduced their prices | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
in two years and follows a big increase last November when Gas | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
Bills rose by 15%. The move will put pressure on other energy | :06:04. | :06:11. | |
suppliers to follow suit. Are energy bills have never been | :06:11. | :06:18. | |
higher. Could prices be able to -- about to move lower? That is the | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
speculation tonight, following EDF's decision to cut gas tariffs | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
for their customers. Sadly for this pensioner, he's not one of them. He | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
switched to EDF in the summer, moving to a fixed tariff. While he | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
escaped November's rice, he is unlikely to benefit from this at | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
all. I have a feeling that if you are capped, you're capped. We're | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
locked into that price until September this year. I don't think | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
I'll get the 5% reduction. reduction will take effect next | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
month. The 5% cut only applies to gas. There's been no change to | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
electricity. It follows a 15% rise in gas tariffs by the company back | :07:01. | :07:07. | |
in November. The move will save a typical customer around �38 on | :07:07. | :07:13. | |
their annual dual-fuel bill. This was the first company to rise | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
prices last year and the first to cut prices this year. Freezing | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
weather and rising prices have pushed energy bills to record | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
levels in recent years. The main consumer group claims they have | :07:26. | :07:32. | |
risen by 21% in the last 15 months alone. The mild winter we are | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
experiencing has added to the downward pressure on the wholesale | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
cost of energy, the price the big companies have to pay for gas and | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
electricity. That has led to speculation that a round of price | :07:43. | :07:50. | |
cuts could be on the way. We have seen wholesale prices drop. | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
Suppliers say if wholesale prices drop, their retail prices will drop | :07:54. | :08:00. | |
as well. I am pleased EDF has started this. Today the Government | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
backed up that call for lower bills. There is speculation that British | :08:04. | :08:12. | |
Gas may be the next to move. Police in Birmingham are | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
investigating the murders of a man and woman whose bodies were | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
discovered this morning by their son. It is believed the 62-year-old | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
man and 58-year-old woman had been assaulted at their home in the | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
Handsworth Wood area of the city. Our correspondent is outside West | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
Midlands Police headquarters for us now. | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
George, with no suspect or motive in mind this evening, detectives | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
say they desperately need the public's help to solve this | :08:39. | :08:45. | |
terrible double murder. At 7.15pm last night all was well with Mr and | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
Mrs Kolar when they spoke to their family. This evening, their home | :08:49. | :08:56. | |
has become a crime scene. Avtar and Carole Kolar were attacked and | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
killed in their own home. Their murders have had a massive impact | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
on the whole community of Handsworth Wood in Birmingham. The | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
couple's son, a serving officer with the West Midlands force found | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
their bodies at 8am this morning. It was obvious from the scene that | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
the couple had been assaulted and had more than likely died of their | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
injuries. However, forensic postmortems are yet to take place. | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
It is likely they will take place tomorrow, or the following day. | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
Clearly the results of those will give us the actual cause of death. | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
Detectives were asked if this was a break-in, that become a double | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
murder? They say they are keeping an open mind about the motive. | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
Officers have been out in force though, reassuring the local | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
community. Any murder inquiry is an absolutely horrendous event for any | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
family, regardless of their profession, race, background. West | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
Midlands Police will do all we can, as we always do, to make sure the | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
offenders for such a horrendous crime are braugtd to justice. I | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
would like to re-- brought to justice. I would like to reassure | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
the community we will catch the people. A team of 60 detectives are | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
working flat-out in these crucial first 24 hours. Forensic experts | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
are at the house, searching for clues. Their colleagues are | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
searching CCTV footage and going house-to-house. While detectives | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
won't speculate on any motive or even a murder weapon, they say it | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
was pretty clear as soon as they entered that house that Mr and Mrs | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
Kolar had been attacked. This evening officers have been assigned | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
to support the couple's four children and eight grandchildren. | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
Thank you. An 18-year-old man has been | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
arrested on suspicion of murder, following a fire in Lancashire, in | :10:47. | :10:53. | |
which four members of the four family died. Reece Smith, who was | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
19, his four-year-old twin sisters and their two-year-old brother died | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
in the fire, which is thought to have started in a wardrobe in the | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
house in Freckleton. The teenager being held is not a member of the | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
family. They disagree on almost everything, | :11:07. | :11:14. | |
but today there was a rare degree of unity in the Commons as David | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
Cameron and Ed Miliband both opposed Scottish independence. They | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
said they would fight to maintain the United Kingdom and called on | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
the SNP to enter talks on how a referendum could be held. Our | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
correspondent has been to Gretna, to hear what people on both sides | :11:29. | :11:39. | |
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of the border think. Tying the knot. This couple closed | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
the border to get married in Gretna. It is a happy union for this couple, | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
but what do they and their guests make of that other union between | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
the countries of Scotland and England. Scotland is Scotland, | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
England is England. If Scotland want their own independence, fair | :11:56. | :12:06. | |
enough. It will open up a can of worms. Once apart, we have the euro. | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
You talk to the Scottish, it's entirely up to them. There are many | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
ties binding England and Scotland together, not least jobs, | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
friendships and family - often through marriage. Many areas and | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
responsibilities which would need to be disentangled and divided up | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
if the union between the two countries were to end. | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
At Prime Minister's Questions, David Cameron issued this warning. | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
There have been too many in the SNP who are happy to talk about the | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
process. They are happy to talk about the process. They don't want | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
to talk about the substance. I sometimes feel, when I listen to | :12:41. | :12:51. | |
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them, it's not a referendum they want, it's a neverendu murbgs. | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
-- neverendum. We, on this side of the House, believe the United | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
Kingdom benefits the people of Scotland and the people of the rest | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
of the United Kingdom in equal measure. We are stronger together | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
and weaker apart. What if Scotland choose to go it alone? The SNP | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
wants to end nuclear weapons based on the Clwyd. They argue it's | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
Scotland's oil, but would the rest of the UK accept this? Scotland | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
would have to take on its share of the national debt if it became | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
independent. The Government in Edinburgh said they have answered | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
concerns about whether it is the euro or the pound. As to the | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
referendum, Scotland's First Minister insists it is up to the | :13:31. | :13:38. | |
Scottish people to decide. Scotland will not be bullied, intimidated or | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
dictated to by a Tory Prime Minister in London. | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
Back in Gretna, the river marks the border dividing the two countries. | :13:47. | :13:53. | |
Just beyond, the local hotel is on English soil and run by a Scotsman. | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
You are a Scotman running a business in England, what are your | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
views on independence? 300 years ago we all joined together. At the | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
moment I don't see why we should be splitting up. The referendum is | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
planned for autumn 2014. There could be legal battles over the | :14:11. | :14:18. | |
form it should take. It is still a long road ahead. | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
School pupils should be able to write programmes for computer games, | :14:23. | :14:29. | |
not just play them. Michael Gove wants a complete overhaul of the | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
way computer skills are taught. The new curriculum, due to be rolled | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
out in the autumn, will be designed with the help of industry and | :14:37. | :14:47. | |
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This is ICT learning of the traditional way. But this is the | :14:49. | :14:55. | |
future. In fact, this is a music class. At Willows High School, in | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
Cardiff, information technology is embedded in lessons. It has a more | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
proactive approach of learning, which makes it more interesting, | :15:04. | :15:13. | |
and more enjoyable. This big technology trade fair is where the | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
education Secretary chose to attack school ICT. He wants to scrap the | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
curriculum and start again, to make it more exciting. At the moment we | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
are just training children to fill in Excel spreadsheet. We want them | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
to be capable of designing the applications of the future. | :15:30. | :15:37. | |
years ago, children learnt the basics of computing on the BBC | :15:37. | :15:46. | |
Micro, the machine which allowed a generation to understand computers. | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
Scrapping the ICT curriculum is a bold move, but Michael Gove is | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
confident that he has business, industry and some of the teaching | :15:54. | :16:00. | |
possession -- profession on his side. But opinion here was mixed. | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
From a computer science background, and like that sort of thinking, but | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
I do think children need a base to start from, going straight to | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
programming would be far too difficult. Lots of students know | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
how to use the software, and increasingly, they no more than the | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
teachers, so we need to make sure it is engaging. Driving this change | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
is the fear that Britain could lose its place as a leader in the | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
technology race if schools are not more ambitious. Whipping up the | :16:33. | :16:42. | |
curriculum shows ministers think it is urgent. Our main headline - the | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
private company that fitted more sub-standard breast implants than | :16:45. | :16:54. | |
any other has refused to replace them. And coming up... Making the | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
most of Britain's film industry - why the Prime Minister thinks it | :16:59. | :17:09. | |
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needs to concentrate more on making Twitter has become the latest | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
social networking site to be exploited by paedophiles. An | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
investigation by the BBC has found that it is being used by them to | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
discuss abuse and linked to images of child pornography. The | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
organisation set up to tackle the exploitation of children says | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
Twitter is lagging behind other social networking websites in | :17:44. | :17:51. | |
tackling the problem. This report from our UK affairs correspondent, | :17:51. | :17:59. | |
Chris Buckler. Tens of millions of people use Twitter, but while the | :17:59. | :18:06. | |
vast majority assume plea sharing news and gossip, there are concerns | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
about paedophiles. The BBC has learned about users publishing | :18:10. | :18:17. | |
images of children, some suggestive, others of child pornography. What | :18:17. | :18:23. | |
he's saying is, I would like to have sex with a young girl... | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
man is a former detective who lectures in child pornography. He | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
has been investigating how Twitter is being used by some paedophiles, | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
and he says the company is acting too slowly in taking protective | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
measures. I understand they cannot do everything, but when they are | :18:39. | :18:45. | |
made aware of a profile, they must take it down. That profile should | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
be down within 48 hours, at the very latest. Twitter said in a | :18:50. | :19:00. | |
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Twitter is just the latest social networking site to encounter | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
problems, with paedophiles using the Internet to get in touch with | :19:16. | :19:24. | |
children. I sent some quite revealing pictures in very | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
compromising positions. This man was persuaded to send a naked | :19:28. | :19:36. | |
photographs of himself at the age of 13. There was a plan for me to | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
meet one of these people, and then go back to Birmingham for shopping, | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
and go to his hotel room. And I was three days away from meeting that | :19:46. | :19:53. | |
person, my mum caught me. What age were you? I was 14. He said he was | :19:53. | :20:03. | |
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about 29, police tell me he was at least 10-15 years older. I think | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
they are a little bit behind some others who have been around a bit | :20:13. | :20:23. | |
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Twitter relies on users reporting problems, and there are concerns | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
about how locked accounts are monitored, because only their | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
followers are able to see what those users are seeing and sharing. | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
A scientists working at one of Iran's nuclear facilities has been | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
killed in a nuclear -- in a bomb attack. He is the fourth scientist | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
to be targeted in the country in two years. Reports say a man to | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
alongside his car on a motorcycle and placed an explosive device on | :20:54. | :21:04. | |
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it. Our Tehran correspondent reports. This is how the Koreas of | :21:05. | :21:14. | |
Iran's nuclear scientists sometimes end. This morning, one scientist | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
did not even make it out of his car. TRANSLATION: I was taking a taxi to | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
work and I heard a huge blast. Later somebody told me that a | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
person on a motorbike had attached a bomb to a car, which had caused | :21:28. | :21:34. | |
an explosion. The victim was a supervisor at it in the Iranian -- | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
uranium enrichment facility, in the centre of the country. No-one has | :21:39. | :21:45. | |
claimed responsibility - no-one ever does. Israel's military chiefs | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
did say yesterday that Iran could expect unnatural events in 2012. | :21:50. | :21:56. | |
This may be the first. It is the latest in a series of unclaimed | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
bombings and explosions in Iran. Two years ago, a physics professor | :21:59. | :22:06. | |
was killed as he left for work. In November 2010, motorcyclists bombed | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
two prominent nuclear scientists in the capital. And just two months | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
ago, an explosion killed 17 soldiers at a missile base outside | :22:15. | :22:21. | |
Tehran. But Iran says it will not be put off, a point it made during | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
missile tests earlier this month. If it has worries, it hides them | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
behind displays of power. The BBC is one of the few Western | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
broadcasters to have a reporter inside the country. He says that | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
people on the street have more to worry about than the killing of | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
nuclear scientists. People in Tehran are much more concerned | :22:43. | :22:49. | |
about economic problems, and making ends meet. And that could be the | :22:49. | :22:57. | |
point. Iran's government can survive attacks like this, but a | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
struggling economy is what keeps the country's leaders awake at | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
night. The BBC has won a High Court battle for the right to broadcast | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
an interview with a terror suspect who has been held without trial for | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
seven years, the longest on record for a British citizen. The Justice | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
Secretary had ruled that Babar Ahmad could not be interviewed | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
face-to-face while he was in detention. The 37-year-old is | :23:21. | :23:27. | |
fighting extradition to the US, where he is accused of raising | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
funds for Chechen and Afghan insurgents. Plans have been | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
unveiled for significant changes to the political map of Wales, which | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
would see the number of MPs reduced by a quarter. The Boundary | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
Commission's proposals are part of a UK-wide plan to reduce the number | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
of MPs at Westminster from 650 to 600. It represents the biggest | :23:49. | :23:57. | |
reshaping of Welsh constituencies since the Second World War. Hywel | :23:57. | :24:03. | |
Griffith is in Caerphilly. Who will be affected most? Well, in theory, | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
all the parties should feel a little pain, but in practice, | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
Labour have probably got the most to lose, that's because they hold | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
the majority of the current 14 seats in Wales. If it goes down to | :24:14. | :24:20. | |
13, -- if it goes down from 40 to 30, some of their safest seats | :24:20. | :24:26. | |
could disappear. The seats would be far less predictable, come the next | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
general election, in 2015. So, both Labour and Plaid Cymru have | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
criticised the plans. The idea is that all constituencies across the | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
UK should have roughly the same number of voters. Changes in | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
Scotland have been controversial, too. There's 12 weeks left for the | :24:45. | :24:51. | |
public to have their say. But these changes would not affect the future | :24:51. | :24:57. | |
of elections for the Welsh Assembly. Hollywood films are often described | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
as blockbusters, but films produced in Britain are known for their | :25:01. | :25:07. | |
realism and prettiness. They might get rave reviews, but they are not | :25:08. | :25:14. | |
always big hits. That has got to change, says David Cameron. This | :25:14. | :25:24. | |
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report from David Sillito. Bleak. This film won 21 awards, and made | :25:31. | :25:40. | |
around �245,000. The King's Speech made more than �245 million. No | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
wonder it has attracted the attention of this movie goer. The | :25:44. | :25:53. | |
man in the director's chair today at Pinewood was David Cameron. This | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
is a Hi-Tec British business which has been doing well. And the | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
message is, they want more such commercial success. A new review of | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
the film industry is due out next week, and the Government says it | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
expects one of the key recommendations to be a rebalancing | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
of lottery funds towards more mainstream movie-making. And there | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
in the background was one of the people behind that review, the man | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
who created Downton Abbey. I have been critical of the idea that all | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
public money should go into minority, rather obscure films. I | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
think it is in the interests of the industry, and indeed the public, | :26:31. | :26:37. | |
but we start building up and making more films that people want to see. | :26:37. | :26:43. | |
One prominent film maker has his doubts. This idea that only | :26:43. | :26:49. | |
blockbuster films will get money is crass. It is a typical Tory notion | :26:49. | :26:58. | |
that only big is good. Nevertheless, there is a shift in emphasis. They | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
still like great art, but they really wanted to be popular and | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
really wanted to be popular and profitable. That brings us to the | :27:04. | :27:11. | |
weather. Good evening. We have got a air -- a change of air on the way. | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
By Friday, the sun will be back, but it will be feeling much, much | :27:15. | :27:22. | |
colder. Tonight it will be turning windy across the northern half of | :27:22. | :27:32. | |
the UK. Not so much across southern parts of England and Wales. Further | :27:32. | :27:37. | |
North, widespread gales, the heaviest of the rain tending to be | :27:37. | :27:45. | |
towards north-west Scotland. As the weather front pushes southwards, we | :27:45. | :27:55. | |
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introduced the cooler air for the morning. You will notice across | :27:56. | :28:01. | |
northern England, you can start to see the divide between the mild air | :28:01. | :28:11. | |
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and the cooler air. Across southern England, it will be chilly in one | :28:14. | :28:20. | |
or two spots, but it will warm up. Across the Midlands, and South | :28:20. | :28:24. | |
Wales, the chance of a few heavy showers. A lot more sunshine | :28:24. | :28:29. | |
developing for northern England and Scotland and Northern Ireland. | :28:29. | :28:39. | |
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Temperatures back to where they After that frosty start on Friday, | :28:42. | :28:49. |