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That shrinking feeling. The UK economy went into reverse at the | 0:00:00 | 0:00:05 | |
end of last year. From manufacturing to building and | 0:00:05 | 0:00:10 | |
services, output fell by 0.2%. Labour and the government at odds | 0:00:10 | 0:00:18 | |
over who is to blame. We have a shrinking economy and the highest | 0:00:18 | 0:00:22 | |
unemployment in 18 years. Mr Speaker, how bad two things have to | 0:00:23 | 0:00:30 | |
get in the economy to shake him out of his complacency? He talks about | 0:00:30 | 0:00:35 | |
what our policy is. We remembers what his policy was. No more boom | 0:00:35 | 0:00:40 | |
and bust! And yet he gave us the biggest boom and the biggest bust! | 0:00:40 | 0:00:43 | |
We'll be asking if Britain now faces a double dip recession. | 0:00:43 | 0:00:48 | |
Also tonight: US special forces, the same unit that killed Osama bin | 0:00:48 | 0:00:56 | |
Laden, rescues two aid workers from Somali bandits. Good job, tonight. | 0:00:56 | 0:00:59 | |
Good job, says the President after he ordered the secret mission. | 0:00:59 | 0:01:07 | |
The choice facing Scotland: to stay in the UK or go for independence. | 0:01:07 | 0:01:12 | |
The First Minister gives his plan for the referendum. The people who | 0:01:12 | 0:01:16 | |
care most about Scotland, the people who live and work there, | 0:01:16 | 0:01:22 | |
should be the ones taking the decisions about the future. | 0:01:22 | 0:01:26 | |
Chocolate with strawberries. And what meal do you think would be | 0:01:26 | 0:01:30 | |
fit for a queen? Children get their chance to choose a menu for the | 0:01:30 | 0:01:36 | |
Diamond Jubilee. I will be here with Sportsday, with | 0:01:36 | 0:01:41 | |
news from Anfield and the Carling Cup semi-final. Liverpool are a | 0:01:41 | 0:01:51 | |
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goal up from the first leg against Good evening. Welcome to the BBC | 0:01:58 | 0:02:04 | |
News at Six. There are new fears that Britain could slip back into | 0:02:04 | 0:02:07 | |
recession after the latest figures on the economy showed it shrank by | 0:02:07 | 0:02:12 | |
0.2% in the last three months of 2011. The downturn saw a | 0:02:12 | 0:02:16 | |
contraction in manufacturing and building. David Cameron admitted | 0:02:17 | 0:02:19 | |
the figures were disappointing but said Britain was not immune from | 0:02:19 | 0:02:23 | |
the eurozone's difficulties. Labour says cutting the deficit too far, | 0:02:23 | 0:02:33 | |
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too fast is to blame. The letters stand for gross domestic product, | 0:02:33 | 0:02:38 | |
the sum total of everything produced in the UK. In a recovery, | 0:02:38 | 0:02:42 | |
it is supposed to keep getting bigger, but not lately and not the | 0:02:43 | 0:02:47 | |
last three months of last year. Our national out but officially shrank | 0:02:47 | 0:02:53 | |
by 0.2%. -- output. The figures showed manufacturing did | 0:02:53 | 0:02:59 | |
particularly badly but for Tony Hancock, who makes trailers for the | 0:02:59 | 0:03:02 | |
aviation industry in Doncaster, it is not about statistics but | 0:03:02 | 0:03:08 | |
survival. I will survive because that is my nature. I don't yet know | 0:03:08 | 0:03:12 | |
exactly how I will survive but the last thing I will do is lose staff. | 0:03:12 | 0:03:16 | |
If I lose any more, I would have to look at saying, let's close the | 0:03:16 | 0:03:26 | |
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doors and move on. 2009 was the 2010 looks better now than it felt | 0:03:28 | 0:03:34 | |
then. Revised figures show growth of 2.1%. Last year wasn't half as | 0:03:34 | 0:03:41 | |
good. And the average forecast for 2012 keeps falling. The betting now | 0:03:41 | 0:03:46 | |
is that we will barely grow at all. The Prime Minister said the figures | 0:03:46 | 0:03:52 | |
were disappointing but don't blame him. They reflect wreath things: | 0:03:52 | 0:03:57 | |
The overhang of the debt and the deficit that we have to deal with. | 0:03:57 | 0:04:02 | |
They reflect the higher food and fuel prices that put the squeeze on | 0:04:02 | 0:04:06 | |
household income is at the end of last year, and they also reflect | 0:04:06 | 0:04:12 | |
the crisis in the eurozone that has frozen Europe's economies. He said | 0:04:12 | 0:04:17 | |
unemployment would fall. It isn't. He said the economy would grow. It | 0:04:17 | 0:04:22 | |
hasn't. He said we are all in this together. We are not. When will the | 0:04:22 | 0:04:25 | |
Prime Minister face up to the fact that his policies are failing the | 0:04:25 | 0:04:29 | |
country? It was mainly weak spending at home that held back the | 0:04:29 | 0:04:34 | |
economy last year. Our trade with other countries and even in Europe | 0:04:34 | 0:04:37 | |
held up pretty well but the Prime Minister is right that the | 0:04:37 | 0:04:42 | |
government wasn't the only one squeezing UK households. They also | 0:04:42 | 0:04:47 | |
faced a big rise in energy and food prices. And uncertainty about the | 0:04:47 | 0:04:52 | |
eurozone probably did weigh down on confidence last year. It will be | 0:04:52 | 0:04:57 | |
even more important in 2012. Take tourism. Last year we had more | 0:04:57 | 0:05:03 | |
foreign visitors and spending by UK holidaymakers rose by over 10% but | 0:05:03 | 0:05:12 | |
On the plus side, perhaps exposure of the Olympics and the Diamond | 0:05:12 | 0:05:16 | |
Jubilee but on the negative side, we have the turmoil in Europe so I | 0:05:16 | 0:05:21 | |
think if we have a flat here, we would still be doing extremely well. | 0:05:21 | 0:05:24 | |
This news is a bit worse than expected but the broad message is | 0:05:24 | 0:05:29 | |
the same: The UK economy is flat. But that is enough bad news to be | 0:05:29 | 0:05:33 | |
getting on with two and a half years after the steepest recession | 0:05:33 | 0:05:37 | |
in living memory the supposed to have ended. | 0:05:37 | 0:05:41 | |
So the argument about who or what is to blame rages in Westminster | 0:05:41 | 0:05:45 | |
but what does the downturn mean for families and businesses around the | 0:05:45 | 0:05:51 | |
country? Our correspondent has been focusing on the market town of | 0:05:51 | 0:05:57 | |
Hereford. Hereford, historic, timeless. A | 0:05:57 | 0:06:03 | |
border city that has seen it all. Good times and bad. But today there | 0:06:03 | 0:06:07 | |
on new challenges. In the city centre, things seem pretty healthy. | 0:06:07 | 0:06:12 | |
Plenty of people out and about. Take a closer look. It is late | 0:06:12 | 0:06:17 | |
January and the sales are still on. Some shops have closed down, others | 0:06:17 | 0:06:23 | |
struggling for survival. This man is doing all he can to bring the | 0:06:23 | 0:06:29 | |
customers in. We have been in business 11 years... We have looked | 0:06:29 | 0:06:32 | |
at every cost in the business and we have cut every cost back to the | 0:06:33 | 0:06:42 | |
lowest level that we can. 43! Jerez that's brand new livestock | 0:06:42 | 0:06:48 | |
market is doing brisk business. -- Hereford. Agriculture is crucial to | 0:06:48 | 0:06:53 | |
the economy and land prices haven't been this good for years. Export to | 0:06:53 | 0:06:58 | |
Europe are a driving force. Farmers like John Bishop cannot afford to | 0:06:59 | 0:07:02 | |
celebrate. His income is improving but that is only half of the | 0:07:02 | 0:07:07 | |
picture. The cost of production is going through the roof. It is | 0:07:07 | 0:07:14 | |
soaring out of control. The cost of energy is unbelievable. Perhaps the | 0:07:14 | 0:07:17 | |
economic fightback will start with small businesses like this. In her | 0:07:17 | 0:07:24 | |
farmhouse kitchen, this woman is running courses in Indian cookery. | 0:07:24 | 0:07:29 | |
There is a market there. There is a place for new businesses but you | 0:07:29 | 0:07:34 | |
have to search for the right market. Clearly the people of Hereford are | 0:07:34 | 0:07:38 | |
having to adapt to a new economic reality. They are changing their | 0:07:38 | 0:07:42 | |
spending habits and work patterns, launching new businesses, but you | 0:07:42 | 0:07:46 | |
still get the impression that no one here quite knows what happens | 0:07:46 | 0:07:50 | |
next with the economy or the scale of the problems which may still lie | 0:07:50 | 0:07:59 | |
ahead. Our political editor joins us. | 0:07:59 | 0:08:04 | |
These figures must put pressure on the Chancellor. Any sign he will | 0:08:04 | 0:08:07 | |
have changed tack? These Treasury officials will | 0:08:07 | 0:08:11 | |
probably give you a better sense than me because I have not seen him | 0:08:11 | 0:08:14 | |
but there is clearly a sense that George Osborne is saying to the | 0:08:14 | 0:08:19 | |
country, I knew it was bad, I told you in my last Autumn Statement | 0:08:19 | 0:08:22 | |
that things have got worse, that borrowing would go on longer, that | 0:08:22 | 0:08:27 | |
the pain would be deeper. You get the argument between the Labour | 0:08:27 | 0:08:33 | |
Party saying, it is all your fault, and the government saying, no, it | 0:08:33 | 0:08:37 | |
is the euro, and yet the economists are saying, it is probably both | 0:08:37 | 0:08:41 | |
that have contributed to problems we have. More interesting perhaps | 0:08:41 | 0:08:45 | |
is the argument about what we do next. The last person to be on the | 0:08:46 | 0:08:51 | |
doorstep posing for their cameras was Christine Lagarde, head of | 0:08:51 | 0:08:54 | |
International Monetary Fund, a vital international organisation. | 0:08:54 | 0:08:59 | |
What is intriguing is what her chief economist has said. He said, | 0:08:59 | 0:09:03 | |
because the government has got a plan for dealing with the deficit, | 0:09:03 | 0:09:07 | |
it has got a little bit of room to slow down the cuts if it wants in | 0:09:07 | 0:09:13 | |
order to help with growth. But then he added a but. The but is: | 0:09:13 | 0:09:16 | |
Provided it doesn't spook the markets into thinking that the | 0:09:16 | 0:09:20 | |
government has lost its nerve. That is the argument that will be going | 0:09:20 | 0:09:24 | |
on inside the building, inside the Treasury, inside the next few weeks | 0:09:24 | 0:09:28 | |
before the Budget. What can they do which would contribute to growth | 0:09:28 | 0:09:33 | |
without unnerving the markets that the government had lost its nerve? | 0:09:33 | 0:09:36 | |
Intriguingly, the Liberal Democrats in the coalition are beginning to | 0:09:36 | 0:09:40 | |
say the answer is tax cuts for those on low and middle incomes, | 0:09:40 | 0:09:44 | |
but they have to be paid for and that would mean by tax rises on | 0:09:44 | 0:09:50 | |
people who are richer. Thank you. US special forces, the same unit | 0:09:50 | 0:09:53 | |
that killed Osama bin Laden last year, have mounted another daring | 0:09:53 | 0:09:56 | |
mission. This time they have rescued two aid workers, including | 0:09:56 | 0:10:00 | |
an American, who were kidnapped by Somali bandits three months ago. | 0:10:00 | 0:10:03 | |
President Obama, who ordered the top secret mission, said America | 0:10:03 | 0:10:09 | |
would never tolerate the abduction of its citizens. Our security | 0:10:10 | 0:10:14 | |
correspondent reports. A commander in chief with every | 0:10:14 | 0:10:20 | |
reason to be believed. Good job tonight. On his way to give the | 0:10:20 | 0:10:24 | |
State of the Union address last night, President Obama | 0:10:24 | 0:10:27 | |
congratulated his Defence Secretary on a secret rescue mission in | 0:10:27 | 0:10:34 | |
Somalia. A mission that indeed these two aid workers' nightmare. | 0:10:34 | 0:10:37 | |
American Jessica Buchanan and Poul Hagen Thisted from Denmark, freed | 0:10:37 | 0:10:42 | |
by US Navy SEALS after three months held by Somali kidnappers. They | 0:10:42 | 0:10:52 | |
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were seized last October while working for a Danish Mind -- mine | 0:10:54 | 0:10:57 | |
clear ring it company. They were being held in a compound in | 0:10:57 | 0:11:03 | |
northern Somalia. US Navy SEALS from Unit 6, the same that killed | 0:11:03 | 0:11:08 | |
Osama Bin Laden, parachuted in the area, landing close to the compound | 0:11:08 | 0:11:13 | |
at 2am. Gunfire broke out and in the fighting that followed, all | 0:11:13 | 0:11:18 | |
nine kidnappers were killed. There were no US casualties. The hostages | 0:11:18 | 0:11:24 | |
were then flown by helicopter to the safety of a US base in Djibouti. | 0:11:24 | 0:11:30 | |
The entire operation lasted an hour. When it was over, the President ran | 0:11:30 | 0:11:37 | |
Jessica Buchanan's father. He had taken a big risk. The president | 0:11:37 | 0:11:40 | |
authorised this personally. I cannot go into more detail. They | 0:11:40 | 0:11:45 | |
concluded they should go and the President gave the go. This was the | 0:11:46 | 0:11:50 | |
highest profile US military operation in Somalia since US | 0:11:50 | 0:11:55 | |
forces pulled out in 1994 but that still leaves over 150 hostages, | 0:11:55 | 0:11:59 | |
mostly sailors, held by Somali pirates and bandits and the ransoms | 0:11:59 | 0:12:04 | |
for their release are rising, running well into the millions. One | 0:12:04 | 0:12:08 | |
of those still being held is a British tourist, snatched from this | 0:12:08 | 0:12:12 | |
Kenyan beach resort last September and taken to Somalia. It is partly | 0:12:12 | 0:12:17 | |
what has prompted David Cameron to call an international conference on | 0:12:17 | 0:12:25 | |
Somalia next month. Tonight two X hostages' ordeal is over. But | 0:12:25 | 0:12:32 | |
Somalia's problems will be up needing profound and lasting | 0:12:32 | 0:12:35 | |
solutions. It has been described as the most | 0:12:35 | 0:12:38 | |
important decision Scotland will have to make in 300 years. First | 0:12:38 | 0:12:41 | |
Minister, Alex Salmond, has set out his proposals for a referendum on | 0:12:41 | 0:12:45 | |
independence from the rest of the UK. The plan will now go out for | 0:12:45 | 0:12:54 | |
consultation. This report contains a flash photography. | 0:12:54 | 0:13:01 | |
It is a day which Alex Salmond believes is historic. He once got | 0:13:01 | 0:13:04 | |
into the Independent and today his government invited the people to | 0:13:04 | 0:13:10 | |
have their say -- he wants Scotland to be independent. It is not just | 0:13:10 | 0:13:13 | |
about the wealth and strength of the Scottish economy, we want to | 0:13:14 | 0:13:19 | |
see a society which has compassion at its heart. A Scotland's First | 0:13:19 | 0:13:22 | |
Minister would like the referendum to start with one key question. | 0:13:22 | 0:13:27 | |
That is, do you agree that Scotland should be an independent country? | 0:13:27 | 0:13:32 | |
Much else is open to discussion. Should there be an additional | 0:13:32 | 0:13:37 | |
question about further devolution, devolution max? Would a Saturday | 0:13:37 | 0:13:44 | |
boost turnout for the ballot? Who should get to vote? Should 16 and | 0:13:44 | 0:13:49 | |
17-year-olds et sa? These pupils in Fife would be affected by which way | 0:13:49 | 0:13:55 | |
the decision goes. At the age of 16, we are able to go and get married, | 0:13:56 | 0:14:00 | |
and raise a family, so why shouldn't we be able to vote? | 0:14:00 | 0:14:04 | |
are not informed enough. A lot of people I know have no idea what is | 0:14:04 | 0:14:10 | |
going on with politics. Scotland's first minister says it is the | 0:14:10 | 0:14:13 | |
people who live and work in Scotland who are best placed to | 0:14:13 | 0:14:18 | |
decide its future. That has left some, including James Wallace, | 0:14:18 | 0:14:23 | |
recently graduated and heading to London, I'm happy. It is wrong that | 0:14:24 | 0:14:28 | |
people like me, who has spent my entire life in Scotland, suddenly | 0:14:28 | 0:14:32 | |
through my work commitments have to move to London and all of a sudden | 0:14:32 | 0:14:36 | |
I am excluded from being able to vote in the referendum. Two weeks | 0:14:36 | 0:14:41 | |
ago, Westminster launched its own consultation on the referendum so | 0:14:41 | 0:14:47 | |
what hope that two governments can reach agreement? We want to sit | 0:14:47 | 0:14:50 | |
down with as good as government and see if we can come forward with the | 0:14:50 | 0:14:55 | |
way that will make sure we have a legal and decisive referendum. | 0:14:55 | 0:14:58 | |
what happens in Scotland could affect the rest of the UK. | 0:14:58 | 0:15:02 | |
Scotland's future is a matter for Scotland but the constitutional | 0:15:02 | 0:15:07 | |
debate is a matter for everybody who has an interest in what happens | 0:15:07 | 0:15:12 | |
to the UK. The details of this announcement will be analysed. | 0:15:12 | 0:15:15 | |
Voters will now have three months to consider what Alex Salmond has | 0:15:15 | 0:15:20 | |
said today and to reflect on what is in here but only after people | 0:15:20 | 0:15:25 | |
have expressed their views will negotiations between the two | 0:15:25 | 0:15:29 | |
governments really begin. But this consultation brings the | 0:15:29 | 0:15:33 | |
referendum itself one step closer. The detailed arguments over the | 0:15:33 | 0:15:43 | |
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Our top story tonight: the UK economy went into reverse at the | 0:15:46 | 0:15:53 | |
end of last year, as output fell by 0.2%. Coming up: Harry Redknapp and | 0:15:53 | 0:15:59 | |
the taped conversations about his alleged tax evasion. | 0:15:59 | 0:16:04 | |
Later on the BBC News Channel, cutting subsidies for solar panels | 0:16:04 | 0:16:07 | |
was unlawful. The Government loses its High Court appeal. | 0:16:07 | 0:16:17 | |
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And mortgage lending hits its David Cameron has set out the | 0:16:19 | 0:16:22 | |
fundamental changes he wants to see to the European Court of Human | 0:16:22 | 0:16:24 | |
Rights. He told the Council of Europe in Strasbourg that the | 0:16:24 | 0:16:27 | |
court's reputation had been undermined by hearing trivial cases, | 0:16:27 | 0:16:31 | |
and it should interfere less in decisions made by national courts. | 0:16:31 | 0:16:33 | |
Our deputy political editor, James Landale, is in Strasbourg and | 0:16:33 | 0:16:43 | |
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listened to the Prime Minster's speech. In the wake of the Second | 0:16:44 | 0:16:48 | |
World War, European nations came together to establish a new | 0:16:48 | 0:16:52 | |
convention on human rights. Drafted in part by British politicians and | 0:16:52 | 0:16:55 | |
lawyers, its aim was to give back to the people of Europe the | 0:16:55 | 0:17:01 | |
freedoms they had lost in years of conflict. But today the European | 0:17:01 | 0:17:04 | |
Court of Human Rights, the court has upholds that convention, stands | 0:17:04 | 0:17:09 | |
accused by critics of straying from its original purpose. Critics like | 0:17:09 | 0:17:13 | |
the Prime Minister, who came to Strasbourg to say it is time for | 0:17:13 | 0:17:16 | |
reform. The court should be free to deal with the most serious | 0:17:17 | 0:17:21 | |
violations of human rights. It should not be swamped with an | 0:17:21 | 0:17:26 | |
endless backlog of cases. It should ensure that the right to individual | 0:17:26 | 0:17:30 | |
petition counts, but not act as a small claims court. The court | 0:17:30 | 0:17:34 | |
should hold us all to account. It should not undermine its own | 0:17:35 | 0:17:38 | |
reputation by going over decisions where it doesn't need to. | 0:17:38 | 0:17:44 | |
European Court's decision last week to prevent Britain deporting the | 0:17:44 | 0:17:48 | |
radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada for fear he would not get a fair | 0:17:48 | 0:17:51 | |
trial in Jordan, despite the British courts rueming otherwise. | 0:17:51 | 0:17:55 | |
Mr Cameron says he wants decisions by national courts respected more | 0:17:55 | 0:17:59 | |
often unless there are exceptional circumstances. He wants the get rid | 0:17:59 | 0:18:03 | |
of the backlog of more than 150 ,000 cases so the court can focus | 0:18:03 | 0:18:10 | |
on serious not trivial issues. He wants better judges appointed. But | 0:18:10 | 0:18:16 | |
last year the court ruled that three of Britain's most dangerous | 0:18:16 | 0:18:18 | |
murderers couldn't review their life sentences, prompting | 0:18:18 | 0:18:23 | |
supporters of the court to say it was getting the balance right, and | 0:18:23 | 0:18:27 | |
warned that reform carried risk. Some of the proposals from member | 0:18:27 | 0:18:35 | |
states such as the UK seriously threaten the rights of individuals | 0:18:35 | 0:18:40 | |
all across Europe to seek justice for human rights violations. David | 0:18:40 | 0:18:42 | |
Cameron's come to Strasbourg because he and many of his MPs | 0:18:42 | 0:18:46 | |
believe that the judges who sit this these chairs here are | 0:18:47 | 0:18:50 | |
interfering too much in British national life. But his reforms even | 0:18:50 | 0:18:54 | |
if they are agreed will take years to implement and for some he is not | 0:18:54 | 0:18:59 | |
going far enough. In the coming months the European Court will rule | 0:18:59 | 0:19:03 | |
once again on whether prisonerers should get the vote. If it insists | 0:19:03 | 0:19:07 | |
they should, many Conservatives MPs will say it is not triumph for | 0:19:07 | 0:19:15 | |
withdrawal but -- not time to reform but withdraw from the court | 0:19:15 | 0:19:19 | |
entirely. Harry Redknapp, one of Britain's | 0:19:19 | 0:19:22 | |
most successful and popular figures in football, has been in court for | 0:19:22 | 0:19:25 | |
a third day facing charges of tax evasion. The case revolves around a | 0:19:25 | 0:19:28 | |
bank account held by the Tottenham manager in Monaco. The court heard | 0:19:28 | 0:19:31 | |
taped conversations with a News of the World journalist in which Mr | 0:19:31 | 0:19:33 | |
Redknapp angrily denied the allegations against him. This | 0:19:33 | 0:19:43 | |
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Harry Redknapp arriving at Court supported once again by his son, | 0:19:50 | 0:19:55 | |
Jamie, who has been here every day of the trial. The jury heard how | 0:19:55 | 0:19:59 | |
Redknapp had been paid �1 million when while manager of Portsmouth | 0:19:59 | 0:20:02 | |
his team had been promoted to the Premier League that. Information | 0:20:03 | 0:20:06 | |
came from the club's former chairman, Milan Mandaric, in a | 0:20:06 | 0:20:09 | |
telephone recording made by the News of the World which was played | 0:20:09 | 0:20:15 | |
to the court. Max Beesley was the reporter who made the call after | 0:20:15 | 0:20:20 | |
being tipped off about the Monaco bank account. He admitted paying | 0:20:20 | 0:20:25 | |
his informant �8,000. Max Beesley recorded a call with Harry Redknapp | 0:20:25 | 0:20:35 | |
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The prosecution also asked the juer Troy consider a series of questions. | 0:20:47 | 0:20:51 | |
One of them: did Harry Redknapp and Milan Mandaric really think that | 0:20:51 | 0:20:55 | |
payments from a chairman of a Football Club to a senior employee | 0:20:55 | 0:20:59 | |
should not incur income tax? Another: was it credible that it | 0:20:59 | 0:21:02 | |
never occurred to Mr Redknapp to mention the existence of the Monaco | 0:21:02 | 0:21:08 | |
account to his own accountant? Harry Redknapp and Milan Mandaric | 0:21:08 | 0:21:12 | |
both deny sect up the foreign bank account to avoid paying taxes. | 0:21:12 | 0:21:16 | |
Tomorrow's session will begin with a video link to Monaco, where the | 0:21:16 | 0:21:22 | |
account was based. The BBC has been told to scale back | 0:21:22 | 0:21:24 | |
planned cuts to its regional services. The chairman of the BBC | 0:21:25 | 0:21:27 | |
Trust, Lord Patten, said the changes to local radio stations and | 0:21:27 | 0:21:30 | |
TV current affairs programmes would damage unique services. It means | 0:21:30 | 0:21:32 | |
the Corporation will have to find �10 million worth of savings | 0:21:33 | 0:21:40 | |
elsewhere. England's cricketers will feel they | 0:21:40 | 0:21:43 | |
have the edge following the first day of play at the second Test | 0:21:43 | 0:21:46 | |
against Pakistan. They took seven wickets, with Stuart Broad and | 0:21:46 | 0:21:55 | |
Graham Swann taking three apiece. From Abu Dhabi, here's Joe Wilson. | 0:21:55 | 0:21:59 | |
In cricket terms Abu Dhabi's stadium is located slap-bang in the | 0:21:59 | 0:22:05 | |
middle of nowhere, outside desert. Inside deserted? Not quite. The | 0:22:05 | 0:22:09 | |
crowd grew to a few thousand as England rethought their approach. | 0:22:09 | 0:22:17 | |
Spin bowling in the morning. Swann struck first. Off off accommodating. | 0:22:17 | 0:22:22 | |
Panesar returning triumphly to the team. Forget TV technology and | 0:22:22 | 0:22:27 | |
disputed decisions. If you knock over the stumps it is out. Younis | 0:22:27 | 0:22:33 | |
Khan dismissed by Broad. Azhar Ali followed emphaticly. Pakistan were | 0:22:33 | 0:22:37 | |
103-4. England in the grief. Pakistan's Captain Misbah-ul-Haq is | 0:22:37 | 0:22:44 | |
often regarded as a boring batsman. Panesar may have disagreed. The | 0:22:44 | 0:22:54 | |
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bowler's patience stretched further when Misbah was stretched to 30. | 0:22:55 | 0:23:01 | |
Shafiq lbw for 58. Then Broad was lbw. Fortunes had turned. That's | 0:23:01 | 0:23:06 | |
the beauty of the game. Misbah was defiant, choosing the final to | 0:23:06 | 0:23:12 | |
bounce Panesar back over the boundary. Message clear. The | 0:23:12 | 0:23:16 | |
Captain is still there. Test match cricket is at its best when it is | 0:23:16 | 0:23:20 | |
evenly poised. That's certainly the case here. Those who came will | 0:23:20 | 0:23:23 | |
surely think it was worth watching, especially was it was free to get | 0:23:23 | 0:23:29 | |
From flaming beacons to a flotilla of barges along the Thames - just | 0:23:29 | 0:23:32 | |
some of the plans to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Today, the | 0:23:32 | 0:23:35 | |
search began for a special menu to serve at the big occasion, with | 0:23:36 | 0:23:39 | |
schoolchildren being asked to come up with a dish fit for a Queen. The | 0:23:39 | 0:23:42 | |
event was launched by the Duchess of Cornwall, who had some advice of | 0:23:42 | 0:23:52 | |
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her own, as Jon Kay reports. Please be seated. She's used to the very | 0:23:53 | 0:23:57 | |
finest cuisine, but the menu at Buckingham Palace is about to get | 0:23:57 | 0:24:04 | |
some updating. In June, the royal kitchens will be serving up food | 0:24:04 | 0:24:09 | |
created by British schoolchildren. So, aprons on, pans at the right- | 0:24:09 | 0:24:15 | |
hand. What would these youngsters in Bristol cook for the Queen? | 0:24:15 | 0:24:21 | |
Chocolate cake with strawberries on top. Ice cream and jelly. Chicken | 0:24:21 | 0:24:26 | |
tikka masala. Everyone likes it. Victoria sponge because of Queen | 0:24:26 | 0:24:32 | |
victoria. I might call it an Elizabeth sponge. This was the idea | 0:24:32 | 0:24:36 | |
of the Duchess of Cornwall, who today became the most unlikely | 0:24:36 | 0:24:39 | |
dinner lady at a Swindon comprehensive school. She wanted to | 0:24:39 | 0:24:44 | |
give mer mother-in-law an unusual present for her Diamond Jubilee and | 0:24:44 | 0:24:49 | |
thought a kids' cookery competition would get things rolling. It is a | 0:24:49 | 0:24:53 | |
light touch isn't it What would you cook for the Queen herself? What | 0:24:53 | 0:24:57 | |
would I cook for the Queen? Something very simple I think. I | 0:24:57 | 0:25:01 | |
don't dare go on about my roast chicken but that's the safest thing | 0:25:01 | 0:25:07 | |
I can cook. What do you think she would like to eat? She likes very | 0:25:07 | 0:25:11 | |
plain. Nothing too complicated. Children entering the competition | 0:25:11 | 0:25:15 | |
are encouraged to use local ingredients, so that pasty made by | 0:25:15 | 0:25:20 | |
kids here contains Wiltshire meat and vegetables. They are encouraged | 0:25:20 | 0:25:25 | |
to give old dish as new twist. So here we've got Coronation chicken, | 0:25:25 | 0:25:29 | |
a royal favourite, but inside a Sam oes Sam. Thinking about pudding. | 0:25:29 | 0:25:33 | |
How about this? This is Queen of puddings appropriately enough, but | 0:25:33 | 0:25:41 | |
here inside a tart. When did you start to cook? The winning entries | 0:25:41 | 0:25:45 | |
will be turned into canapes in the royal kitchens and the young chefs | 0:25:45 | 0:25:51 | |
who create them will get the serve the dishes to the Queen. | 0:25:51 | 0:25:59 | |
More now on our main story. The argument about where the UK economy | 0:25:59 | 0:26:04 | |
is heading. Jeffny Flanders joins me. It's a question everyone wants | 0:26:04 | 0:26:07 | |
answering - is there a possibility of a double-dip recession? Hate to | 0:26:07 | 0:26:11 | |
be a possibility on the basis of these numbers, buts the question | 0:26:11 | 0:26:14 | |
that no-one can answer. You can find people in the City who will | 0:26:14 | 0:26:18 | |
tell you this is likely to be short-lived. We've seen positive | 0:26:18 | 0:26:21 | |
signs today from UK manufacturing in the last few weeks. Good news | 0:26:21 | 0:26:25 | |
from the US economy. Even Germany, but there is plenty of others who | 0:26:26 | 0:26:30 | |
think we are now heading deeply into negative territory for a while. | 0:26:30 | 0:26:35 | |
What's most striking to me is that the average forecast for the UK | 0:26:36 | 0:26:41 | |
this year is 0.4%. When George Osborne became Chancellor, when he | 0:26:41 | 0:26:48 | |
wrote his Budget plans, we thought the economy would grow by 2.6% last | 0:26:48 | 0:26:52 | |
year, 278% this year. I think the crucial thing is just like the | 0:26:52 | 0:26:57 | |
financial crisis before it, this is turning out to be a recovery unlike | 0:26:57 | 0:27:07 | |
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Fluctuating numbers of my own, because it's been much milder today. | 0:27:08 | 0:27:12 | |
Temperatures have been higher but tonight they will drop once more. | 0:27:12 | 0:27:16 | |
It will turn colder after we've all seen a spell of wet weather. It's | 0:27:16 | 0:27:19 | |
been raining for much of the afternoon in Northern Ireland and | 0:27:19 | 0:27:23 | |
western Scotland. A big line of rain heading all the way to the | 0:27:23 | 0:27:27 | |
south of Ireland that. Line of rain is a weather front, which will | 0:27:27 | 0:27:31 | |
spread across all areas overnight. We'll all have a few hours of rain. | 0:27:32 | 0:27:37 | |
Because it is a cold front it will then drop temperatures sharply. | 0:27:37 | 0:27:40 | |
Under the clear skies we will see frost forming in northern Britain. | 0:27:40 | 0:27:45 | |
As the rain clears it could turn icy for the morning rush hour | 0:27:45 | 0:27:48 | |
across Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England. It's a wet | 0:27:48 | 0:27:51 | |
rush hour in eastern counties of England but the rain here will | 0:27:51 | 0:27:56 | |
drift away and then we are all in the mixture of sunshine and showers. | 0:27:57 | 0:28:02 | |
The showers tomorrow will have a wintry shower. Sleet and hail mixed | 0:28:02 | 0:28:07 | |
in. For some there would be snow over the hills of Scotland. Even at | 0:28:07 | 0:28:11 | |
lower levels there could be snow flurries in the central belt, and | 0:28:11 | 0:28:16 | |
in Northern Ireland and northern England. Even at lower level there | 0:28:16 | 0:28:20 | |
is could be hail and sleet for a time. Further south, not many | 0:28:20 | 0:28:25 | |
showers by the afternoon. A better chance of sunshine. Maybe showers | 0:28:25 | 0:28:31 | |
over the moors. Temperatures lower than today's. It will feel chilly | 0:28:31 | 0:28:36 | |
tomorrow night. Temperatures dropping away. Showers in north- | 0:28:36 | 0:28:40 | |
western areas. Snow likely over the hills. The risk of ice on Friday | 0:28:40 | 0:28:44 | |
morning. Friday is again a day of sunshine and showers, with the | 0:28:44 | 0:28:48 |