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Road disruption and power lines down as snow and blizzards hit | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
parts of the country. There are confuse of traffic across northern | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
England, as tens of thousands are left without electricity. | :00:19. | :00:26. | |
We have no power. No mobile phone. No mains telephone. Devastated in | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
this day and age that you can't get any information. Salvage experts in | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
Wales struggle to get fuel off a cargo ship which ran aground in | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
stormy seas. Parts of the country have civilian | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
the heaviest April snow for 30 years. | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
Also tonight: Britain's big airlines fear gridlock at airports | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
over Easter. They say borders are dangerously understaffed. | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
One of the country's most wanted men arrested, suspected of | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
hijacking a car carrying two toddlers. | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
More GPs are worried about whether they can make the controversial NHS | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
reforms work. New research by the BBC. | :01:06. | :01:12. | |
And Great Britain pip Australia to gold in the four-man team event at | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
the World Championship. Next time they meet it's the Olympics. | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
On BBC London, the hosepipe ban starts at midnight. Some businesses | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
say they are suffering already. And the high court rules against | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
protesters trying to stop the building of an Olympic training | :01:26. | :01:36. | |
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Hello and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
Tens of thousands of families are still without power tonight after | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
gale-force winds, snow, sleet and rain brought power lines down in | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
north-east England and Derbyshire. Elsewhere, across a wide sweep of | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
northern England, there's been disruption on the roads, with many | :01:58. | :02:07. | |
motorists stuck for hours. Ed Thomas is in Saddleworth with the | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
latest for us. We might have the blue skies here now, but this | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
morning we had the gales, is sleet and the snow. How much snow? Just | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
look at this pile here. In Yorkshire they have had the | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
heaviest snowfall in April for over 30 years. What all this has meant | :02:25. | :02:33. | |
is homes without power and roads closed. This was rush hour on the | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
M62. Drivers talked about blizzard- like conditions between Manchester | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
and Huddersfield. Queues stretched for ten miles as the motorway was | :02:41. | :02:50. | |
closed. It meant drivers were forced on to the back roads. But it | :02:50. | :02:57. | |
wasn't long before they also became stuck. They knew it was snowing and | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
they have done nothing about it. I haven't seen any gritters out in | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
the last couple of days. It's caught them off guard again haven't | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
it? The M62 was choc-a-block. Everybody is trying to get through | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
this way. April. It should have come on April 1st! | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
We joined Oldham's Mountain Rescue team in Saddleworth. By midday they | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
had already dug out over 20 drivers and a snowplough. How bad was it? | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
Early on it was quite severe. The winds were really high, gusting | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
probably force 7 and 8, difficult to stand up in. Visibility was 15 | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
metres. Very, very cold. And the snow and ice has left tens of | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
thousands of homes without power across North Yorkshire, Derbyshire | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
and County Durham. Here in Consett many have been without electricity | :03:52. | :04:00. | |
since last night. We have no power, no mobile phone, no mains telephone. | :04:00. | :04:06. | |
No internet access. Other than the car, and the road, we have no | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
communication. Devastated in this day and thaidge you can't get any | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
information. We have no means of contact, radio, television or | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
nothing. Mobile phones yes, we've tried to ring the frift board but | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
after 15 or 20 minutes we are cut off. No information is given. | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
Engineers are trying to restore power here. But the snow and ice is | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
making their job harder. Currently we have about 25,000 customers | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
still without power, having peaked through the night at 40,000, so we | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
are working really hard under our major incident response plan to get | :04:43. | :04:51. | |
everyone on supply. Off North Wales this cargo ship hit a rock off | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
Colwyn Bay. There is concern that oil is leaking but there is praise | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
for those who rescued seven crew members. It was difficult to rescue | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
seven people off the ship which was moving at the time in stormy seas | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
and bring them down safely on the M55. The snow is now melting. All | :05:09. | :05:16. | |
of this was expected but it seems that many weren't prepared. | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
They are still trying to clear this road. You can see how slow it is | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
for the traffic, and the tractor trying to move the snow off the | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
carriageway. But it is melting here quickly. This hopefully should be | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
gone tomorrow. A quick word about homes without power. I'm told that | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
12,000 homes in Whitby now have electricity. Ed, thank you. | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
11 major airlines, including British Airways and Virgin, have | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
warned that there could be "gridlock" at airports over busy | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
periods like the Easter break. They say a shortage of staff at border | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
controls could lead to unacceptable delays, but the Home Office says | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
extra staff will be brought in to cope with the extra demand. Here's | :05:54. | :06:03. | |
our home affairs correspondent, Tom Symonds. After a long haul flight | :06:03. | :06:09. | |
it is hugs and friendly faces we expect, not an endless queue in | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
passport control. But airlines say there's a risk of gridlock like | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
this because of the upheaval in the UK Border Force, which places our | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
borders. Last year it came to light that staff levels had been cut and | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
fewer additional passport checks were being done. The Home Secretary, | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
Theresa May, suspended the head of the agency here on the right, and | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
demanded full checks were restored. But they take longer and require | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
more staff. Virgin and the other airlines are now claiming there | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
aren't enough people on duty and queues risk disrupting their entire | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
operation. It is the middle of the afternoon. Quite a quiet period at | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
Terminal 4. Passengers have been telling me that some from outside | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
Europe have waited about 15 minutes to get through passport control. | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
But the airport says it can sometimes take three hours, which | :07:00. | :07:07. | |
BAA, owner of Heathrow, believes is unsent. We work hard to make sure | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
we cut out confuse as much as wefpblgt it should take five | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
minutes to get through security. Down stairs in immigration it is a | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
different matter. That is not a good enough welcome to the UK. | :07:20. | :07:27. | |
Heathrow said this weekend will be quieter than next weekend. But | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
airlines and the Border Force union say their concerns go beyond Easter. | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
We have the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and the Olympics. The border needs | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
to have enough staff. They need to be trained. They need to be in | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
place, not temporary staff, proper, fully trained border officers. | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
Home Office says extra staff are being brought in. The new border | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
chief says warnings of serious disruption are simply speculation. | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
My focus must be on making sure that our border is safe, that our | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
travelling public are safe, and this we don't permit risks into the | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
United Kingdom that could be a detriment to the safety of our | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
communities. And trying to achieve that in a way that doesn't disrupt | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
people any more than is necessary. Now clear that the airlines are | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
closely watching the performance of Britain's Border Force. | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
After a row about Government powers to monitor everything from our | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
phone calls to internet use, there's fresh division at the heart | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
of the coalition tonight over secret evidence in court. David | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
Cameron says it's all about plugging gaps in national security, | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
but many, including the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, appear | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
unconvinced. Our deputy political editor, James Landale, has more | :08:36. | :08:46. | |
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details. Where should the balance of justice be decided? Always in | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
open court or occasionally in private? So national security and | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
the secrets of our spys are protected. To date the Prime | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
Minister was clear. If courts want to hear more intelligence they need | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
to do so behind closed doors. Government, Prime Ministers, have a | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
responsibility for national security. We should take every step | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
that's necessary to keep the country safe. We shouldn't put our | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
civil liberties at risk by doing so, but where there are gaps that need | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
to be plugged we need to plug those gaps. But how those gaps are | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
plugged is testing this once happy relationship. Nick Clegg has tried | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
to limit greater state monitoring of the internet. Now he's told | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
Ministers that plans for more secret courts risk riding roughshod | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
over civil liberties. I've been here 29 years arguing the case for | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
civil liberties. One thing that justifies liberal democracy is | :09:42. | :09:48. | |
defending the citizen against did overmighty state. We took on Labour | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
for 13 years because they didn't understand that. On one level you | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
have a Conservative Prime Minister emfising security, his Liberal | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
Democrats deputy emphasising civil liberties. Nick Clegg is aware that | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
he is facing tough local elections soon. So Mr Clegg has made clear he | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
won't support more closed courts unless judges, not Ministers, | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
decide when to used them. And he says they should never apply | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
inquests. But Ken Clarke said secret courts are necessary to | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
protect national security and to protect intelligence given to the | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
UK by countries like the United States. In the case of the former | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
Guantanamo Bay detainee, Binyam Mohamed, a summary of US | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
intelligence was revealed in court and Ken Clarke says the Americans | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
are now cutting back on the information they share. No-one is | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
riding rough shot over the principles of open justice but you | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
cannot have your spies giving sensitive information in public. | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
And the result is you don't hear them at all at the moment. There is | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
no open justice. This makes the security services more accountable. | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
Labour like the Liberal Democrats think the plans for secret courts | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
go too far, so pressure on the Government to get the right balance | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
between security and liberty is growing. | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
Network Rail has been fined �4 million and ordered to pay costs of | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
nearly �120,000 for a breach of health and safety law which caused | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
a train to derail near Grayrigg in Cumbria in 2007. One passenger was | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
killed and 86 others injured when the 300 tonne engine derailed at 95 | :11:16. | :11:26. | |
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mph after hitting a badly maintained and faulty set of points. | :11:31. | :11:37. | |
A man suspected of master minding the September 11th attacks is to | :11:37. | :11:43. | |
stand trial at a special tribunal. He and four others are being held | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
at Guantanamo Bay accused of terrorism and aircraft hijack. If | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
found guilty they could face the death penalty. | :11:50. | :12:00. | |
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One of Britain's most wanted men is under arrest tonight. Cedric Brown | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
was cornered by West Midlands Police at the scene of a burglary | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
and carjacking. Two toddlers were strapped into car seats at the time. | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
As Daniel Boetcher reports from Birmingham, the man is also being | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
questioned over a violent break-in two years ago which was featured on | :12:13. | :12:20. | |
Crimewatch. Three suspects seen running from a vehicle were pursued | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
by officers on foot along this street. Then the start of a brief | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
but terrifying ordeal for one young family. Police say one of the | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
suspects then grabbed a woman, pulling her out of her car. It is | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
believed he was carrying a knife. He sped off in that direction, | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
trying to escape. But in the back of the car were the woman's two | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
young children, a one-year-old boy and a two-year-old girl. I heard | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
the scream and I looked out the door to see a car spinning off up | :12:47. | :12:55. | |
the road really. But the woman was really upset. Crying and that. But | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
there was quite a few people helping her. I think he may have | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
realised the children were in the back of the car. A man was arrested | :13:05. | :13:11. | |
after he abandoned the car a short distance away and the children were | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
safely reunited with their mother. The children themselves, the | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
youngest didn't know much about it but the two-year-old was covering | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
her face and was frightened and was talking about what's been going on | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
today. The man arrested is believed to be 44-year-old Cedric Brown. He | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
is wanted for questioning in ex- connection with a stabbing and | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
burglary in Birmingham. The defence has begun in the trial | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
of 11 men accused of sexually abusing girls in the Rochdale area. | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
In court today a defendant, who like the other men charged, is | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
Asian, accused one of the girls of being racist and the police of | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
being corrupt. Our correspondent, Chris Buckler, was at Liverpool | :13:47. | :13:57. | |
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These are some of the men accused of sexually abusing five girls. | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
Aged as young as 1. Among the accusation claims that they worked | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
together as a gang, using drink, drugs and violence to groom the | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
teenagers. Today in court another defendant, who we can't name for | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
legal reasons, became the first of the men to gave evidence. He made | :14:17. | :14:27. | |
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his own claims. Calling one of the The 59-year-old man, who is as | :14:29. | :14:35. | |
yangs accused the police of being corrupt. | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
-- the 59-year-old man, who is Asian, accused the police of being | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
corrupt. There've been protests by the BNP outside court earlier in | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
the trial. And there had been demonstrations in the Heywood area | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
of Rochdale, where it is alleged that vulnerable girls were | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
trafficked and raped. But the defendant claimed they were | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
involved in prostitution and said they in enough business acumen to | :15:03. | :15:09. | |
win the television programme The Apprentice. At several points he | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
became aggressive, accusing a police officer in court of United | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
Kingdom him up. At another he took off his short, asking why a girl he | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
is accused of having sex with failed to tell police he was hairy. | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
A second defendant, Kabeer Hassan, gave Ed today. Like the other men | :15:26. | :15:36. | |
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There has been disruption to roads and power supplies after snow and | :15:37. | :15:44. | |
high winds in parts of the country. Coming up... Gold medals and a new | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
world record for Britain's cyclists. The perfect planning for London | :15:48. | :15:55. | |
2012. Ind Business news, why charities are banking on a �600 | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
million Big Society cash pile. And how growth in the service sector | :15:59. | :16:05. | |
suggests that Britain might have dodged the recession will it. -- | :16:05. | :16:13. | |
GPs seem to be losing faith in the Government's controversial reforms | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
to the NHS in England. That's according to new research conducted | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
by the BBC. 18 months ago, one in four thought giving GPs a greater | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
say would improve care for their patients. Now it's just one in | :16:26. | :16:32. | |
eight. Our health correspondent has the details. In every community in | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
England, the NHS is changing. A year from now, GPs will be the | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
leaders - making decisions together about how money is spent. So does | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
this G P led system mean an improvement in care? In 20th | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
September 10, 23 % agreed it would. By March this year that had fallen | :16:52. | :16:59. | |
to just 12 % of GPs. The government says the NHS needs this scale of | :16:59. | :17:08. | |
change. That convinced 65 % of GPs in 2010, but only 47 % agree now. | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
Some critics argue this will mean a bigger role for private companies. | :17:12. | :17:19. | |
71 % of GPs thought it would in 2010. That has now gone up to 87 %. | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
Some GPs say they've become deeply disillusioned. We are very worried. | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
As more details come out it becomes increasingly obvious that the power | :17:29. | :17:36. | |
being given is not as real as it seems. We won't have a lot of power. | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
What the government have done is shifted the decision-making | :17:41. | :17:47. | |
processes on to us at a time when our services will have to be cut. | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
These NHS changes are all about who makes decisions about money. GP | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
surgeries like this one are joining together into groups. This time | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
next year those G P led groups will take control of health budgets for | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
the local communities. They could be more competition for the NHS | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
from private companies and charities. And at the same time, | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
the Health Service have to find big savings to help meet rising costs. | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
It is that need to find savings at the same time that is worrying | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
patient campaigners. We hear on a daily basis about the huge | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
efficiency savings we've got to make. GPs going forward have got to | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
make some very tough decisions about whether to treat a patient or | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
not. That is going to have a huge impact on the GP patient trust and | :18:36. | :18:43. | |
relationship. This ComRes pole used to see sample of more than 800 GPs | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
interviewed in March. We asked them about future pressures on the NHS. | :18:47. | :18:53. | |
Will the NHS be able to go on treating patients within 18 weeks? | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
Just 22 % thought it could. Almost Just 22 % thought it could. Almost | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
half disagreed. Will the NHS have to increase rationing of treatment? | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
to increase rationing of treatment? 83 % of GPs think it will. GPs who | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
support the changes say that is why they need to take the lead. GPs are | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
in a very good position to know what conditions their patients are | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
likely to experience. They can therefore plan services at a | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
convenient for the patient, but also make sure they are provided in | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
a cost-effective way. government says many GPs do back | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
its vision. And, as the NHS goes on making savings, patients want | :19:33. | :19:40. | |
doctors, not managers in charge. You can find out more about that | :19:40. | :19:50. | |
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Talks aimed at averting a strike by fuel tanker drivers have begun at a | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
secret location in London. They are being overseen by ACAS, the | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
conciliation service, which is mediating between the Unite union | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
and officials from seven distribution companies. Richard | :20:02. | :20:10. | |
Westcott is at ACAS for us now. Tell us what the latest is. | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
All the union will say is these talks are still going on. I think | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
we can take that as a good sign. They started early this morning, | :20:17. | :20:23. | |
but they have got a lot to talk about. It isn't a single issue here. | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
It isn't about pay, pensions, safety training, the unions say all | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
of that has been degraded over the last few years but the company is | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
disagreeing with that. This could go on for days, weeks, we have no | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
idea. It's important to remember we are not suddenly going to have a | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
strike sprung on us. Even if it breaks down, the unions come out | :20:43. | :20:52. | |
and are now strike dates - they It's called Big Society Capital and | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
its aim is to unlock billions of pounds of investment in social and | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
community projects. The new fund, which has start-up cash of �600 | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
million, has the personal endorsement of the Prime Minister. | :21:03. | :21:09. | |
But how much of an impact will it make? As our home editor reports, | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
the initiative is being hailed as a new way of getting his -- getting | :21:13. | :21:19. | |
big business to invest in grassroots projects. Britain is | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
being invited to board a new vehicle for delivering public | :21:22. | :21:29. | |
services. And this bus is an example of it. It looks like any | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
London double-decker but unlike other routes where profit goes to | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
shareholders, many made on this one subsidises community projects. In | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
the jargon, it's a not-for-profit social enterprise. And the man who | :21:41. | :21:49. | |
heads the project is a social entrepreneur. Former bus driver Dai | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
Powell, wants to expand his feet, but traditional banks are often | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
reluctant to lend to social enterprises. As of today, there is | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
the Big Society Capital. The public sector has the tax take, the | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
private sector has share Capital. We now have access to funds for | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
social enterprise. When you say to the bank, I've got this social | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
enterprise, what will you say? will say we need X amount of money | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
and we will give you a financial return but also a social return. | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
The application for a loan will stress sell his operation Bunce | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
community mini buses for elderly and disabled people in north London, | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
as well as generating enough income to repay his debts. Bankers may | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
have an image problem that Animex passenger on the social enterprise | :22:37. | :22:43. | |
bus is a banker with a difference. Does the chief executive of Big | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
Society Capital honestly believed that hard-nosed City investors will | :22:47. | :22:53. | |
be prepared to sacrifice profit to do good? I am absolutely convinced. | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
Not just in London but about the UK, there are a significant number of | :22:56. | :23:03. | |
people who want to take at least a part of their investment portfolio | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
and dedicated to investment that not only gets them their money back | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
but also earns them some sort of small return and, most importantly, | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
help to make society and the communities they live in a better | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
place to live. So is social enterprise takes its idea too Big | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
Society Capital, which will look at what it offers for a financial | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
return and social return. It may dip into its own funds, but most of | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
the cash is likely to come from an outsider, a company, charity or | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
individual, happy to earn a bit less interest if their investment | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
also ends up making the world a better place. Within the charitable | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
sector there are sceptics as to just where the Big Society boss is | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
taking Britain. Social enterprise is not risk-free. It could go bust. | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
It asocial enterprise is delivering a key public service and people | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
have got to have continuous service on it then something will have to | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
be done. It's important the government thinks about that now. | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
If we get a lot more social enterprises delivering a lot more | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
public services, this is an issue which would become real in the | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
future. Enthusiasts believe Big Society Capital will help create a | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
new sector for service delivery, incorporating the best of state and | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
privately funded provision. Doubters fear it will suffer the | :24:17. | :24:27. | |
weaknesses of both. Edinburgh Zoo says its two giant pandas have yet | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
to make, two days after they were placed in the same enclosure for | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
the first time. Tian Tian and Yang Guang have been showing some | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
interest in each other but, with only 36 hours it year in which it's | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
possible to conceive, it means the arrival of any panda cubs is now | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
unlikely this season. When it comes to planning for London 2012, it | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
could hardly get any better. A British four man team has just said | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
the new world record at the track cycling world championships in | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
Australia. But, as James Pearce reports from Melbourne, the British | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
team are also competing against each other for places at this | :25:01. | :25:09. | |
summer's Games. The roar from the Australian crowd as their team | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
pursuit cyclist went head-to-head against the British. And then near | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
silence. When they realised that the Brits had won in a world record | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
time. I've been wanting this for the last four years and it's never | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
quite happened. To come to Australia and beat the Aussies on | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
their own turf makes it all the better. In Melbourne, the British | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
cyclists could hardly be any further from London as the | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
countdown to the Olympics continues. But it's here, 10,000 miles from | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
home, where some agonising selection decisions will have to be | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
made. The rules for the Olympic cycling have changed. This year, | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
every country is going to be limited to just one competitor in | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
each event. So Sir Chris Hoy won't even be able to defend all three of | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
the titles he won in Beijing unless he can prove here that he is still | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
Britain's number one in each of his event. This was Chris Hoy today, | :26:05. | :26:12. | |
riding alongside Jason Kenny in the tree -- in the team sprint. This | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
was Chris Foy at the last Olympics, beating him in the final of the | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
individual sprint. After that race, an interesting prediction was made | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
about a man he'd forced to settle for the silver medal. He's going to | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
be the best in the world in a short space of time. This is the man | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
who's going to win in London. Chris Hoy's ambition of winning | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
three more gold medals in London will be thwarted before the Games | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
even begin, unless he can demonstrate this week that his | :26:40. | :26:46. | |
prodigy still can't overtake him. share a room with the guide, we | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
trained together every day. He's a great bloke, we're good friends. | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
But on the track it doesn't matter, you are just trying to do | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
everything you can to win the race. That showdown will take place at | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
the end of the week. Today belongs to Britain's men's pursuit team, | :27:01. | :27:11. | |
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the new world champions. Let's get Than fully the worst is over for | :27:13. | :27:18. | |
oboes badly affected today. Let's remind ourselves of the vortex of | :27:18. | :27:24. | |
thick cloud, this was the make-up of the snow. Blizzards for some, | :27:24. | :27:32. | |
welcome rainfall for others. For many, a cold evening across central | :27:32. | :27:36. | |
and southern areas. In the West Country, the chances of a few | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
thundery showers in the next few hours. The worst of the weather | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
will be across central and southern areas tonight. For the rest of the | :27:44. | :27:49. | |
UK it is dry and quieter. The skies will be clearing across the North, | :27:49. | :27:54. | |
that means a very cold night. Where you've got snow cover it will be | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
extremely cold, a severe frost in some places. Later in the night, | :27:58. | :28:03. | |
more cloud spreading to the north- west of Scotland. Rain arriving, | :28:03. | :28:07. | |
not snow. This dampness will spread across other parts of Scotland and | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
Northern Ireland. Further south it is looking good. The early cloud | :28:11. | :28:18. | |
across seven areas will break up. A much better day across the North of | :28:18. | :28:23. | |
England, dry and brighter. Breezy across southern areas but things | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
should pick up through the afternoon. Temperatures in many | :28:26. | :28:30. | |
places will be getting up into double figures. Patchy rain | :28:30. | :28:34. | |
clearing from south Devon and Cornwall. Wales has a much better | :28:34. | :28:40. | |
day. It will be brighter and warmer. For Northern Ireland it will tend | :28:40. | :28:44. | |
to cloud over after a bright, frosty start. Patchy rain towards | :28:45. | :28:49. |