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Rupert Murdoch confirms plans for a new paper saying the Sun on Sunday | :00:13. | :00:20. | |
will launch very soon. He tells his staff he's proud of the paper's | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
heritage but insists illegal behaviour won't be tolerated. | :00:26. | :00:33. | |
Critics say Rupert Murdoch has made the wrong move. This is ludicrously | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
premature, deeply cynical. They say they're trying to drain the swamp. | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
I don't see how the swamp can bring forth a new creature we want to see | :00:42. | :00:52. | |
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on our streets. The battle to deport Abu cat add that. | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
The pond where a woman and her daughter drowned. This is a pond | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
where people feed the ducks. The accident might have happened like | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
that. The strong start to 2012's High Street. But retailers are | :01:11. | :01:18. | |
braced for a tough year. The film star and his FBI files - | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
documents reveal how Charlie chaplain was under investigation on | :01:21. | :01:31. | |
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Good evening. Welcome to the BBC News at 6.00pm. Rupert Murdoch | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
warns staff at the Sun newspaper today he won't protect inch found | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
to have broken the law but has also pledged support for the paper | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
saying a Sunday edition will be launched very soon. That would fill | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
the gap left by the closure of the News of the World last year. The | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
Sun has been rocked by nine arrests of current and former staff in | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
recent weeks as a police corruption probe continues. Our Home Affairs | :02:17. | :02:27. | |
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Correspondent Tom Symonds reports from East London. | :02:31. | :02:37. | |
Let's go live to Tom Symonds where News International is based. | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
We have Rupert Murdoch launching a Sunday edition of the Sun. How will | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
that affect the ongoing investigation do you think? | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
Tomorrow is of course Saturday. On Saturday in recent weeks we have | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
seen police raids on the homes of journalists around the home | :02:52. | :02:59. | |
counties. We have seen baling bags of their -- bags of their personal | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
belongings taken out by teams of detectives. There is a feeling this | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
isn't over yet. We don't know for example whether the management and | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
standards committee at News Corporation have been able to find | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
more evidence they have passed on to polices. That was hanging over | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
Rupert Murdoch's visit to the UK today and the Sun newsroom today. | :03:21. | :03:30. | |
Tabloid newspaper might have called it rupeertes red top rescue. Mr | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
Murdoch landed last late last night in London. He had had a night to | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
consider how he'd boost morale at the Sun newspaper. By this morning, | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
news crews were waiting for him, besieging every entrance to News | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
International's headquarters. Rupert Murdoch was driven into the | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
building at speed to avoid them. He must have known what to expect - | :03:51. | :04:00. | |
the hax were hacked off with Murdoch. Nine senior Sun | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
journalists past and present were arrested. Information has been | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
passed to the police by a committee set up by News Corporation. Perhaps | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
to boost morale before stepping into the Sun newsroom here, Rupert | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
Murdoch gave staff two pieces of news - firstly, arrested staff who | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
had been suspended would be able to return to work, and secondly, a new | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
Sun on Sunday would be published soon. | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
He also sends an e-mail message to staff - the Sun is part of me, he | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
said. But he added, "We will obey the law. Illegal activity simply | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
will not and cannot be tolerated." But he stressed, "Everyone is | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
innocent until proven guilty." The journalists' union said that would | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
not placate staff. I feel completely and utterly | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
betrayed. They feel like they have been thrown to the wolves that this | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
is a company who sat on placating the anger and the growing hostility | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
amongst the American investors and that this is another cynical act of | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
damage limitation in precisely the same way the closure of the News of | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
the World was. Rupert Murdoch's e- mail played on his 43-year history | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
with the Sun, the paper that brought him into Britain's media | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
market. Murdoch watchers believe he's committed to defending and | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
extending the Sun. I am not surprised about launching the Sun | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
on Sunday. I don't think there was ever any question that on the basis | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
of what has been discovered so far of the Sun being closed in a | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
dramatic move like the News of the World. But there was this reaction | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
from one hacking victim. This is ludicrously premature, deeply | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
cynical. News International themselves say they're trying to | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
drain the swamp. I don't see how the swamp can bring forth a new | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
creature we all want to see on our streets. Rupert Murdoch play be | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
here gripping the issue, but with protests, angry staff and a | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
circling police investigation, his tabloid troubles aren't over yet. | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
And one thing we didn't hear today is when this new Sun on Sunday will | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
be published, what it will look like, what it will contain. Rupert | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
Murdoch may be accused of simply recreating the News of the World in | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
another format. That's for another time. He's going to stay in Britain | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
to continue managing this situation, we're told, for now. | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
Thank you. The Home Secretary, Theresa May is | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
to travel to Jordan to discuss the deportation of extremist cleric Abu | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
Qatada. Britain wants to deport him because he's considered a threat to | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
national security. But the extradition has been blocked by the | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
European Court of Human Rights. Let's get more from Matt Prodger. | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
What kind of signal do you think the Government is signaling by the | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
fact May will go to Jordan herself? There are two ways of interpreting | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
it - the first, she's going on there to build on success that's | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
already been made and to cement a deal with the Jordanians. The | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
second interpretation is progress hasn't been made and she's being | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
sent out there as a top gun to salvage any kind of agreement. What | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
they're seeking is aaust assurance from the Jordanians that he will | :07:13. | :07:19. | |
receive a fair trial. The European Court has blocked his deportation | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
to Jordan because it believes evidence through torture may be | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
used against him, and as a result of that a British judge released | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
him because it said it couldn't detain him indefinitely. He could | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
still challenge any agreement that may be made, and that means that he | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
could remain in the UK for months or even years to come. Matt, thank | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
you. A 71-year-old woman and her six- | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
year-old grandson have been found dead in a pond in Lincolnshire. The | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
alarm was raised by the boy's mother. The bodies were discovered | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
in a duck bond in a village. Let's go live there and join our | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
correspondent Ben Ando. What more can you tell us about this? Well, | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
Michelle, a day with granny is a treat that's looked forward to by | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
both grandparents and grandchildren ablie, yesterday at this | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
picturesque pond in south Lincolnshire, such a treat turned | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
through reasons that are not entirely clear yet from treat to | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
tragedy. Still, but dangerous water in a | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
sleepy Lincolnshire hamlet - last night the body of a 71-year-old | :08:23. | :08:29. | |
woman was recovered from this pond in the early hours of this morning. | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
Divers found her six-year-old grandson nearby. Police were called | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
by the child's mother last night. He'd gone to stay with his | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
grandmother but had not returned. The police called at the home, but | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
there was no reply. A major air and land search was launched, and the | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
bodies were found. Police say at the moment they're not sure what | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
happened, but they do not suspect foul play. We're working on lots of | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
hypotheses. This pond is a location where people often come and feed | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
the ducks, and the accident might have happened out of something like | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
that but we're keeping an open mind, but what I can say for certain - at | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
this stage we're not treating this as a suspicious incident. Local | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
people say the deaths were a huge shock. The woman was popular, well | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
known and well liked in the village. It was a complete shock. It was | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
just - you don't expect anything like that to happen around here, | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
and it is just a tragedy for somebody to be out in a local area | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
and something so horrible happen to you. It's just that I hope they | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
find out like what happened and my condolences to the family that's | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
left behind. Port mortem examinations will be carried out in | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
due course. The police say they will continue their investigations | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
into exactly what caused the deaths of two generations of the same | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
family. Well, one other thing I should tell | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
you is I put my hand into the water here, and the water is very cold, | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
so if perhaps the little boy did get into the water and granny went | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
in after him it is very likely they would have been overcome very | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
quickly indeed. Ben, thank you, in Lincolnshire. | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
Retailers have enjoyed a surprisingly good start to the year. | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
New figures out today show sales rose unexpectedly, up 0.9% last | :10:12. | :10:18. | |
month. Shoppers made the most of discounted prices and sales of | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
furniture and sportswear were strong, but as our business | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
correspondent reports, many still think the High Street is facing | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
another difficult year. You'd think after the excesses of | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
Christmas, we might be reining back - no. We're still shopping despite | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
all the pressures on our wallets. Here in Rochdale today, people were | :10:40. | :10:50. | |
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out and showing us what they'd bought. Birthday cards - woops. A | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
plant box, things like that, you know? Getting ready for spring | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
really. I bought a headband that matches my shoes and yogurt, jelly | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
beans, orange juice. I could have spent �20 at a garden centre, but I | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
have looked around to get something that little bit cheaper because you | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
just don't have the same amount of money to throw about. So what's | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
been driving the rise in sales? Well, according to the Office for | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
National Statistics survey, in January electrical goods were up - | :11:20. | :11:26. | |
so too was hardware and furniture, big-ticket items for consumers. | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
The boss of some of our biggest High Street chains says it's all | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
down to heavy discounts. January has been a sale month, so everybody | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
has been exceptionally aggressive, so I think we have to take that in | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
the context of the marketplace, so hopefully that means we've all got | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
rid of all the goods we wanted to get rid of. Now we get to a new | :11:45. | :11:51. | |
season. Those sales are still going on mid-February, a sign that | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
retailers are finding the going tough. They're cautious at the | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
moment. They've been too optimistic too often in the past, and the | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
economic outlook is still bad. I think they're going to continue to | :12:00. | :12:06. | |
be cautious, and I think that's the right way to be. There is one real | :12:06. | :12:12. | |
bright spot, though, internet sales are rising fast. Take Boden, the | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
up-market clothing retailer. They say sales last month were better | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
than expected. They are a retail success story, and business is | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
still growing, but here at HQ, they have to fight for every order, but | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
at least they don't have the headache of paying rent on hundreds | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
of shops. So they came in January, tempted by | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
promotions. The question is, will sales continue to move in the right | :12:36. | :12:42. | |
direction? The price of diesel has reached a | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
record high, prompting calls for an official investigation into fuel | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
prices across the UK. The retail motor industry says the average | :12:52. | :12:59. | |
pump price of �1.40 a litre is a disaster for motorists. It's asked | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
the Office of Fair Trading to look into unfair pricing tactics by | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
supermarkets and oil companies. More than 2,800 women in England | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
who received potentially faulty breast implantss have been referred | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
to the NHS because private clinics have failed to help. The Government | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
says it will remove the implants for free and try to recover the | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
costs from the clinics. It hasn't been the easiest of times | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
for relations between Britain and France, but today David Cameron | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
said cooperation hadn't been better since the Second World War. He has | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
been meeting Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris and said the relationship | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
remained strong despite the UK's refusal to sign up to a fiscal | :13:39. | :13:47. | |
treaty. It wasn't so long ago that the | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
French President advised David Cameron to shut up and called him | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
"obstinate". Today's meeting was a time for smiles and complements. | :13:55. | :14:01. | |
David Cameron began by wishing the man he called his friend "all the | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
best with his re-election campaign." I admire Nicolas | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
Sarkozy's leadership, his courage. I think he's achieved great things | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
for his country. Not quite an endorsement, but President Sarkozy | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
too was in a generous mood. TRANSLATION: I speak from the heart | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
when I say that I wish to pay tribute to the courage of the Prime | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
Minister. The Prime Minister said the | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
country's enjoyed the closest relationship since World War II, | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
with new deals on civilian nuclear power and military projects. The | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
issue, of course, that complicates this relationship and occasionally | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
turns it tetchy is Europe. President Sarkozy saying today he | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
understood that the British have red lines over Europe, and David | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
Cameron saying he believed the relationship was strong enough to | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
get over the occasional "bump in the road," as he put it. Back in | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
December, there had been frostiness between the two leaders after David | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
Cameron used his veto in Brussels, but Dade President Sarkozy conceded | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
he would have defended Britain's interests in exactly the same way. | :15:05. | :15:11. | |
TRANSLATION: I have always been of the view that Europe needs Britain. | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
The strength of a relationship is when you can have disagreements, | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
but actually then be able to go on working together on all the areas | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
that you agree. The two leaders have been allies over Libya, and | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
David Cameron gave President Sarkozy a warship shell from that | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
operation, but today the two leaders expressed their frustration | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
that they couldn't do more over Syria. I am not satisfied that we | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
are taking all the action we need to. The message to the Syrian | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
opposition was that if they united, it would be easier to help them. | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
TRANSLATION: Tell us how we can help you, and that's what we'll do. | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
Both leaders made clear, however, that the conditions were not right | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
for foreign intervention in Syria. It is part of the British-French | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
relationship that there will be occasional rows and tiffs, but this | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
meeting underlined a deepening relationship between the two | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
Our top story tonight: Rupert Murdoch announces he's | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
launching a Sunday edition of The Sun newspaper to fill the void left | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
by the defunct News of the World. Coming up: | :16:14. | :16:23. | |
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Getting into gear at the Olympics 5th 5th of coming later in sport, | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
we will have the latest sport including the latest from Rangers | :16:29. | :16:39. | |
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who went into administration He was the silent movie star famous | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
for his hat and cane. But Charlie Chaplin was also a star under | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
surveillance. Newly released documents have revealed that he was | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
under investigation by the FBI and MI5 throughout the 1950s, as they | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
tried to establish whether he was a Communist sympathiser. Our security | :16:57. | :17:04. | |
correspondent, Gordon Corera, has He was the world's first Hollywood | :17:04. | :17:13. | |
superstar. Charlie Chaplin was one of the most famous men in the world | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
in his time. Why did Britain's security service MI5 open a file on | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
him? A file which looked not just into his political views, but also | :17:23. | :17:29. | |
a mystery surrounding his origins. Chaplin had left his native Britain | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
for America in 1910. In Hollywood his slapstick style made him the | :17:34. | :17:40. | |
star of the silent movies. If I had my way, they would all be sent back | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
to Russia. By the early 50s American politicians were | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
investigating communism in Hollywood and chaplain came under | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
suspicion. Back comes Charlie Chaplin after an absence of twenty- | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
one years. Her when he came to London the US banned him from | :17:57. | :18:07. | |
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returning and American intelligence For the British it is all about | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
whether he is a security risk. Whether he is a member of the party | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
or not. They find no proof of that and they also find no proof he is a | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
security risk. But there was another question the FBI wanted | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
answered. Was Charlie Chaplin really he said he was? Winnowed | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
Charlie Chaplin grew up in this street in south-east London. But | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
where was he born? A birth certificate has never been found | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
and the FBI seemed to think he was using a false name and wanted to | :18:40. | :18:50. | |
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get to the truth. But in all its Surely you are not a communist. | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
have to be a communist to read Karl Marx? His son, seen here in one of | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
his father's political films, said Charlie Chaplin may have been born | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
in a gypsy caravan and his tough early days shaped his views. | :19:11. | :19:17. | |
would always tell us that he had a very hard childhood. He grew what | :19:17. | :19:26. | |
on the streets. That made him very sympathetic to socialism in general. | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
His great comic creation was the tramp, an underdog, and every man, | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
and it is for that rather than the politics that he will always be | :19:33. | :19:43. | |
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remembered. For many years, Glasgow has been | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
known as the knife-crime capital of the UK. But in recent months, the | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
Scottish government has been cracking down with tougher prison | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
sentences for those found carrying a knife. The number of crimes | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
involving weapons has fallen by 10% in Scotland, but campaigners say | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
more needs to be done to tackle what they call a 'culture of | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
violence'. From Glasgow, our UK affairs correspondent Chris Buckler | :20:03. | :20:04. | |
reports. Beaton, bloodied and left lying on | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
the ground. This was the sudden end to this teenagers night out, a | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
victim of violence on the streets of Glasgow. There were five or six | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
people coming from that side and five or six from that side and they | :20:16. | :20:24. | |
had poles and bats. They started hitting each other. He felt -- he | :20:24. | :20:32. | |
fell. Beside the police car, one of the planks of wood. Officer and | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
save bricks, bottles and everything else found in the street can be | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
used in such a tax, but knives are one of their main concerns. These | :20:40. | :20:46. | |
are some of the weapons seized in Glasgow in recent months. There was | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
one at 2am and somebody slapped me. I was just asking for directions. | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
These are former gang members. They now work for a community group | :20:57. | :21:03. | |
trying to tackle the trouble they were once a part of. I got a | :21:03. | :21:11. | |
punctured lung. And a bid/mark across my face. I have seen people | :21:11. | :21:18. | |
stabbed. I have been in jail for things I have done. It is | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
horrendous, some of the things I've seen. Strathclyde police's violent | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
crime in its area has fallen by almost a 5th, but across Scotland, | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
there is concern that more than 60% of homicides involving knives or | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
sharp objects, significantly higher than the percentages for England, | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
Wales and Northern Ireland, and recent figures suggest almost 80% | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
of people accused of those homicides were under the influence | :21:42. | :21:50. | |
of drink or drugs. People end up drinking too much alcohol. They get | :21:50. | :21:56. | |
in and have an argument in the kitchen, pick up a kitchen knife | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
and then stab somebody. That happens very, very quickly. There | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
are campaigners who believe only harsher sentences will make a | :22:03. | :22:09. | |
difference. John's son Damion was stabbed and killed by a stranger. | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
He says everyone found in possession of a knife should go to | :22:12. | :22:20. | |
jail. The man who killed my son was out on two serious charges. One for | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
attacking a person with a knife. Why was he on the streets? A six- | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
week crackdown on knife crime has just come to an end. The courts in | :22:29. | :22:35. | |
Scotland were told to take knife crime particularly seriously. But | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
there is pressure on the politicians to find a longer term | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
solution to the twin problems of drink and violence. | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
The former Essex bowler Mervyn Westfield has been sentenced to | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
four months in jail. The 23-year- old is the first English cricketer | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
to be prosecuted for spot-fixing. Last month, he pleaded guilty to | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
taking �6,000 after deliberately bowling badly so he would concede | :22:54. | :23:00. | |
runs. The corruption took place in a county game between Essex and | :23:00. | :23:10. | |
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Durham. So the countdown is well and truly | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
on for the Olympics, with just 161 days to go. Cyclists have been in | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
action at the Velodrome for the first time today. It's a sport | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
dominated by Britain's men and women and there are high hopes for | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
what they will achieve this year. Live now to our sports editor David | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
Bond, who's at the Velodrome. What is the atmosphere like today? | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
Intimate, intimidating and when Britain's cyclists are on the track, | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
very, very noisy. Outside this fella drone, large parts of the | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
Olympic Park are still very much a building site. But with 6,000 | :23:40. | :23:48. | |
people in here, it could be July and the Olympics already. This is | :23:48. | :23:54. | |
the major test event on the road to 2012, but it is also a level of the | :23:54. | :23:56. | |
expectation around Britain's cyclists. | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
He London's Olympic Velodrome, already viewed by many as the | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
iconic venue of the 2012 at games. Today the first chance to see | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
competitive action in what is billed as the fastest track in the | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
world. Britain's biggest names are under big pressure to win this | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
summer, but the sport has an unrivalled track record. How did we | :24:18. | :24:27. | |
get so good? Scientists, nutrition, physios. They are all very | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
experienced and very their lead in their field. Getting those people | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
together and supporting the team, it has always been a wonderful | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
advantage because you can't do it by yourself. I have tried but you | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
can't! You need people behind you. But all of this can't be done | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
without cash. More than �26 million has been given to British Cycling | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
By UK Sport to fund the team's preparations for 2012. That is 10% | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
of all the funding given to the 26 Olympic sports. But it is a | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
strategy which has delivered success. 22 medals since the Sydney | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
Games in 2000, including 11 gold medals. Like cycling, the other so- | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
called sitting down sports like sailing and rowing have also been | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
prioritised to great effect. In London, however, the ambition is to | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
win more medals in all sports. That ambition has been made much harder | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
following funding cuts to some small sports. Table tennis has | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
received just �1.2 million in the build-up to London, down 48% on | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
Beijing. It is a similar story with shooting, just �2.4 million for | :25:36. | :25:42. | |
London, down by almost half. Those in charge of Team GB no elite sport | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
is a ruthless business. You can't just rely on the government because | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
it may not always be there. You have to say that if government | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
funding is reduced, we will still carry on. That is what leadership | :25:56. | :26:03. | |
is about. It was Britain's leadership on the track that was in | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
question today. Chris Hoy's sprint team failing to make tonight's | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
finding that final. A sign perhaps that even the best sports can't | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
guarantee gold. Chris Hoy and his team-mates will | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
say that this doesn't really matter and during the summer when it | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
really counts, they will deliver, but it was a reality check, a shock | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
to the crowd. There was better news for Victoria Pendleton and Jessica | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
Varnish, they qualified for the women's sprint final against | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
Australia and it is the re- emergence of Australia which is | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
posing the biggest questions for Britain's cyclists and posing the | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
big questions as whether they can continue their success in front of | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
his very enthusiastic home crowd his very enthusiastic home crowd | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
this summer. Let's have a look at the weather | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
forecast. Tell me the snow is over! | :26:54. | :27:02. | |
For most of us, yes, but for some of us, no. Much of the UK will have | :27:02. | :27:10. | |
Frost this weekend. The cold air is coming behind a cold front, which | :27:10. | :27:16. | |
will spread wet and windy weather dealt Scotland and Northern Ireland. | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
It will get into north-western parts of England and Wales later in | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
the night. Ahead of that, largely dry and mild. Behind that weather | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
front, Frost across the far north of Scotland. It will turn | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
increasingly wintry with blizzards setting in across the Highlands and | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
Grampians. The rain will sweep down through Wales, it will not last | :27:37. | :27:42. | |
long, but squally winds and heavy rain. That will make its way down | :27:42. | :27:49. | |
towards the south-east. By 2pm, it will turn wet for a tie. | :27:49. | :27:52. | |
Technically, temperatures still doing pretty well, but with the | :27:52. | :27:56. | |
wind and rain in will not feel pleasant. When the rain clears, the | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
sun will come out, but the temperatures will fall away during | :27:59. | :28:06. | |
the afternoon. Wales, bright and chilly. Across the Irish Sea and | :28:06. | :28:08. | |
into Northern Ireland, showers developing and they will turn | :28:08. | :28:17. | |
wintry. The North of Scotland looks quite nasty if you're heading into | :28:17. | :28:22. | |
the hills. The central belt probably staying dry. Tomorrow | :28:22. | :28:26. | |
night, further snow showers in Scotland. Northern Ireland could | :28:26. | :28:30. | |
also see snow. For most of us, Frost is the story on Sunday | :28:31. | :28:35. | |
morning. A bright, crisp, sunny start. A few wintry showers across | :28:35. | :28:38. |