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Rupert Murdoch is not a fit person to run a major corporation, a | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
damning report from a committee of MPs. They say he turned a blind eye | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
to the phone hacking scandal, the verdict could threaten his stake in | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
BSkyB. Indeed you of the majority of | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
committee members, Rupert Murdoch is not a -- is not fit to run an | :00:30. | :00:36. | |
international company like BSkyB. The decision spits their MPs, the | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
Liberal Democrats side with the Labour Party, leaving the Tories on | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
their own. It will be correctly seen as a | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
partisan report, and we have lost a great deal of its credibility, | :00:47. | :00:53. | |
which is a shame. Also, 80 extra staff deployed at | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
Heathrow after David Cameron tells his ministers, get a grip on the | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
long queues. 1000 people are evacuated from | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
their homes after more flood warnings, the forecasters say there | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
is more rain to come. And, the FA gets its man, Roy | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
Hodgson is confirmed as the next England manager. We look at the | :01:13. | :01:20. | |
challenges facing him. And in Sportsday, more reaction to | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
what had shown's appointment, plus all of the other news, including | :01:23. | :01:33. | |
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the sudden death of one of the Good evening. Welcome. | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
An influential group of MPs has branded Rupert Murdoch not fit to | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
run a major international company. The damning report from the media | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
select committee said News Corporation had misled them about | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
the extent of the phone hacking scandal. The criticism of him | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
personally was supported by both the Labour Party and the Liberal | :02:06. | :02:16. | |
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Democrat MPs, but opposed by the Rupert Murdoch, until recently, | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
seen as the world's most powerful media mogul. Today, declared by MPs | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
not a fit person to run a major international business, because, | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
the MPs say, he and his colleagues turned a blind eye for years to | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
phone had caned by journalists at the News Of The World. Everybody in | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
the world and those who is responsible for the wrong to ring | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
of News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch. More than any individual alive, he | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
is to blame. Morally, the deeds are his. He paid the Piper, and he | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
called the tune. The committee was arguably even more damning about | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
three of his colleagues. Colin Myler, the former editor of the | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
News Of The World, Tom Crone, the legal affairs manager for Rupert | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
Murdoch's British newspaper, and Les Hinton, for decades Rupert | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
Murdoch's right hand man, all accused of misleading MPs. In the | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
case of Colin Myler and Tom Crone, in part because they had been aware | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
of an e-mail showing that hacking was more widespread than they | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
admitted, and it is because the three men told MPs in 2009 that | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
hacking was the work of a single road reporter, that MPs have found | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
them guilty of misleading them. Colin Myler is still an editor, for | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
another organisation. The three men have all rejected MPs' Plymouth | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
damning verdicts. It was the disclosure that the News Of The | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
World hacked the phone off the murdered teenager Milly Dowler that | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
turned hacking into a story of national importance. Since then, | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
the cost of prominent people whose privacy has been invaded by phone | :04:01. | :04:11. | |
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hacking has grown and grown -- roster. Previously, we could not | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
criticise Rupert Murdoch or the press, but this has come as a | :04:14. | :04:20. | |
surprise. Is it too much, has it gone too far? No. Rupert Murdoch | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
has a lot of questions to answer, he has a lot to answer for, and for | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
the very first time, he is being held to account. Why did the | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
committee reached its verdict on Rupert Murdoch? We found News | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
Corporation carried out an extensive cover up of its rampant | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
law-breaking. In the view of the majority of committee members, | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
Rupert Murdoch it is not fit to run them international company like | :04:46. | :04:53. | |
BSkyB. The issue on which no Conservative member felt they could | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
support the report, the line put in the middle of the report that said | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
that Rupert Murdoch is not a fit person to run an international | :05:00. | :05:08. | |
company. What will be the impact of MPs' verdict that he is not fit to | :05:08. | :05:15. | |
run a major international company? Here, I have just heard the four | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
Tory members say they voted against that verdict, so at any suggestion | :05:18. | :05:24. | |
that this is a party political judgement and not a dispersion at | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
one, that could undermine its force. -- not a dispassionate one. Ofcom | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
is investigating whether BSkyB, 39% owned by News Corporation, is fit | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
and proper to hold a broadcasting licence. In theory, if Rupert | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
Murdoch is deemed by MPs not to be fit and proper, that could push | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
Ofcom era to deciding to that, for BSkyB to retain its licence, News | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
Corporation should sell most of its shares. The News Of The World | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
scandal is still making use, shaking the whole of Rupert Murdoch | :05:59. | :06:09. | |
and his son James on their sprawling media empire. | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
Picking up on the last point, an awful lot at stake, how damaging | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
could this be? Quite a legend. I could read the report before it was | :06:19. | :06:27. | |
made public, and my jaw hit the floor. Rupert Murdoch not fit to | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
run an international company, not fit to be chairman of News | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
Corporation, this great, colossal empire he built up. The force of | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
the verdict may be lessened by the fact that the Tories and Liberal | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
Democrat voted for it, sorry, Labour and Liberal Democrats, but | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
the Tories voted against. Some will see it as a partisan judgment. But | :06:53. | :06:59. | |
in America, it will be very embarrassing for them. There are | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
shareholders in America desperately trying to reduce the control of the | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
Murdoch dynasty over News Corporation, and I do not think | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
they will see the new ones of a party political spite, they will | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
just see the verdict of MPs. In Britain, there is the huge issue | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
for Rupert Murdoch of whether or not he will be able to retain the | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
control he has got over BSkyB, Ofcom is looking at that. Ofcom | :07:26. | :07:32. | |
will pursue its own independent inquiries, but this report does not | :07:33. | :07:41. | |
help Rupert Murdoch's cause. Robert said, this was a split | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
decision, in political terms, does that make it less damaging? It is | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
intriguing, it is 84 pages of deeply uncomfortable reading for | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
Rupert and James Murdoch and News Corporation. But it is one sentence | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
which has grabbed the headlines, which split the committee on party | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
lines, and select committees usually try to agree not to divide | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
on party lines, and it is one sentence that has overshadowed much | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
of this report and allowed the Tories to say that they do not | :08:12. | :08:21. | |
agree with it. Why did Tom Watson do it? With the support of four | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
other Labour MPs and one Liberal Democrat? His critics say he loves | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
the headlines, he compared Rupert Murdoch to a Mafia boss. They say | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
he is trying to put the Tories in an awkward position, to make them | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
look as though they are on the murder of side. And that he is | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
trying to speak of the shareholders in the United States. But he said | :08:42. | :08:49. | |
he was trying to make sure that the report did not merely Simcha -- | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
censure three executives, but it would also censured the top guy. | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
The question is whether the party divide maximises the impact or | :08:58. | :09:06. | |
whether it allows News Corporation to say, who cares? | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
80 extra staff a day had been drafted into Heathrow to stop | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
lengthy delays for passengers arriving at Britain's biggest | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
airport. It comes after David Cameron told ministers to get a | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
grip on the situation. He called the Home Secretary to Downing | :09:20. | :09:27. | |
Street for an urgent meeting today. Today, the battle over the | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
efficiency of the British border continued. The minister was sent to | :09:32. | :09:38. | |
the front line to be confronted by a distinct lack of serious queues. | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
Mid-morning, a quiet period at Terminal 3. But he continued to | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
insist the Government is not downplaying the problem. The queues | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
that we have seen recently are too long, the number of actions which | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
are taking, extra staff, is central control room, mobile teams, better | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
use of automated gates, they are all designed to mitigate the | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
problem. More pictures from angry passengers. Damian Green says the | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
longest queue last week was an hour and a half, British Airways said he | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
was misleading the public, it was two-and-a-half hours. The | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
experience of this man, a regular, is somewhere in the middle. I use | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
Heathrow at least once a month. I have been created by queues no | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
shorter than two hours, it is a shambles if you ask me. As a | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
developed nation, the UK is showing this to the world? The Prime | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
Minister was speaking of the deeds to grip this issue, to admit there | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
is a problem. Despite the minister's statement yesterday that | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
the problem had been exaggerated. In the industry, there is a feeling | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
that extra staff are just a sticking plaster and that more | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
radical action is needed. The central cause is that staff numbers | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
were cut on the basis that more selective passport checks would be | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
done. But then the government decided to reintroduce the full | :11:00. | :11:06. | |
checks. If the change the rules, if they modify the requirements, they | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
should understand the impact that will have on resources. They have | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
not been making adequate resources available at the airport, and it is | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
reflecting badly on the UK. being quiet this morning, nearly | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
half of the desks were empty in Terminal 3. The extra staff or for | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
busy periods. But for the unions, they are not enough. 80 temporary | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
staff taken from other parts of the Home Office is a sticking-plaster | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
at best. The Government needs to put in a full-time, permanent jobs | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
in at all of our ports and airports to make sure we can give a proper | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
service, protecting our borders, but also welcoming people to | :11:45. | :11:52. | |
Britain. An embryonic idea is for airlines to pay extra for more | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
staff than shorter queues. It will not happen before the Olympics. | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
The inquest into the death of the MI6 officer Gareth Williams has | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
heard that the secret service has failed to pass on evidence to | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
police investigating his death. It includes computer memory sticks and | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
a holdall similar to the one his body was found in. He was | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
discovered in a padlocked holdall in the path of his central London | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
flat almost two years ago. The death of two teenagers who | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
committed suicide by jumping off a bridge could have been avoided if | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
more staff had been on duty at their care home. That is a key | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
finding of a fatal accident inquiry into how Niamh Lafferty and Georgia | :12:38. | :12:45. | |
Rowe died in October 2009 in Renfrewshire. | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
They had loving families. Georgia Rowe and Niamh Lafferty, filmed | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
here in what would turn out to be her final birthday. As troubled | :12:54. | :13:01. | |
teenagers, both with -- both were taken into care. This CCTV footage | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
shows them leaving the care home they had been stained in on the | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
night they died. The staff did not notice they had been missing. They | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
had been out with their families earlier and had given no indication | :13:11. | :13:17. | |
of what was to come. She turned around, she waved at me, a big, | :13:17. | :13:25. | |
happy smile. She said, I will see you soon. And are we went. -- off I | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
went. That was the last time I saw her alive. The report found she had | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
made numerous suicide attempts in care. George had suffered from | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
sustained and violent bullying. They were vulnerable, but they were | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
housed in an open unit at the care home, just along the road. | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
Motorists saw them working together -- walking together along this | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
bridge. The barriers were much lower at the time, and it is here | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
that they ended their lives. The fatal accident inquiry concluded | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
their deaths could have been avoided if reasonable precautions | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
had been taken. They should have been housed away from an alarmed | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
fire exit and closer to staff. Four people should have been supervising | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
the unit instead of two. The family say they feel let down by the | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
system they turn to for help. has left the unit, and nobody knows | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
why, nobody knows. They did not vote until after they were dead. | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
There was no security. How can that be? The accommodation where they | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
stayed has been closed. In more secure Unit to still operate on the | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
site. The managers their expressed profound sorrow for the weaknesses | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
in the handling of the circumstances leading up to the | :14:42. | :14:50. | |
British scientists say they are working on creating a simple blood | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
test which could help predict a woman's chances of developing | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
breast cancer. It follows research which found that a genetic switch | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
carried by some women doubles their risk of developing the disease. Our | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
medical correspondent is here with the details. Fergus. | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
This is early research which, if it pays off, could have far-reaching | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
benefits. In the journal Cancer Research, scientists at Imperial | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
College London explain how they analysed blood samples from 1,380 | :15:14. | :15:24. | |
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women, 640 of whom went on to get They found signals in the blood | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
years before the disease developed, which revealed some of the women | :15:27. | :15:36. | |
had up to double the risk of That research teams say this is a | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
daily work but it raises the hope of a blood test to detect future | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
breast cancer risk of stock it will be quite important for potentially | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
diagnosis. Because we can use it to predict people's individual risk. | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
On top of that we can potentially reverse these changes so therapies | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
could be developed that could reverse somebody's risk of the | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
disease. Scientists have already identified faults in the genes in | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
our DNA that put some women at increased risks of breast cancer | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
but our the M8 is covered in a chemical tags, epigenetics, would | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
tell them when to switch on and off. These chemical switches change as a | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
result of diet, smoking and lifestyle and can make us | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
susceptible to cancer and other diseases. Scientists found that one | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
in five women had an epigenetic change in their white blood cells | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
that greatly increased their risk of getting breast cancer used in | :16:37. | :16:44. | |
the future. This woman got breast cancer in her 20s. She says a blood | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
test to detect her risk level in advance would have been of great | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
benefit. It would make a huge difference to women because you | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
will be able to plan your approach to the disease well before you face | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
the disease and look at options such as prevented double mastectomy, | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
hormone treatment, and your lifestyle to see if you can make | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
change is. A lot of research is under way looking at whether blood | :17:09. | :17:16. | |
tests could pick up only risk tests for other cancers. This may not | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
come for many years but would be a significant in France in diagnosing | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
disease. -- a significant advance. Our top story tonight: A damning | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
report from MPs has branded Rupert Murdoch not a fit person to run a | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
major corporation. Coming up: Swollen rivers, flood warnings and | :17:32. | :17:42. | |
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In Business on the news channel, News Corp investors shrugged off | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
the phone hacking scandal but what will the long-term damage be? | :17:50. | :18:00. | |
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And many mortgage holders see the It was a well kept secret until | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
last Sunday, and now it is official. Roy Hodgson is the new England | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
manager. The FA have signed him up for four years. Speaking at Wembley, | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
after two days of negotiations, he said it was a proud day. Dan Roan | :18:14. | :18:24. | |
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is there for us now. It emerged during today's unveiling | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
of Roy Hodgson that he had been the unanimous choice of the FA | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
selection panel. He most certainly wasn't the unanimous choice of the | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
footballing public, many of whom would have preferred Spurs boss | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
Harry Redknapp, but Roy Hodgson it is an today he had his say on the | :18:42. | :18:48. | |
role he has been working towards his entire career. | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
He may not be the man many expected to be unveiled as the new manager, | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
but Roy Hodgson's long career to date they reached an unexpected | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
high. The West Brom boss, the latest to be handed the top job in | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
the English game. It is a very proud day, I am a very happy man to | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
be offered the chance to manage my country. I am looking forward | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
enormously to the task ahead. Everyone knows it is not easy. I am | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
also hoping that everybody, the fans, supporters, will get behind | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
the team forced of Roy Hodgson is one of the most experienced | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
managers in world football. He has coached three national sides, | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
European teams and Premier League clubs, and yet Harry Redknapp had | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
been the favourite, so why was he ignored? I am not prepared to talk | :19:38. | :19:44. | |
about other candidates, other people. We are here to present our | :19:44. | :19:50. | |
new manager, Roy, and there is a lot to talk about it my future. | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
hope we remain friends. We have unwittingly become rivals but I | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
hope it will not affect our friendship. Roy Hodgson has no time | :19:59. | :20:08. | |
to waste. His first match will be against Norway later this month. | :20:08. | :20:15. | |
England's opening match against France is in June. How big a job do | :20:15. | :20:21. | |
you have to win people over? It is always a big job. The only way you | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
are going to win people over his bed doing the job that I know I can | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
do. After spending millions of pounds on Fabio Capello, and | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
manager with more reasonable demands will have appealed to the | :20:34. | :20:40. | |
FA but as ever, results on the pitch are what matter ultimately. | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
By handing Roy Hodgson a four year deal, the FA have shown up the kind | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
of backing and faith in him that many England fans are get to, and | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
he appeared to acknowledge the task he faces. There will be no | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
honeymoon period for Roy Hodgson, the pressure will be on immediately. | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
A former Liberal Democrat donor Michael Brown has returned to | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
Britain and has been ordered to begin a seven-year jail sentence he | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
was given in 2008. He fled the UK after being convicted of fraud. | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
Brown was arrested in the Dominican Republic last month. | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
Are the fortunes of towns and cities boosted by having a directly | :21:16. | :21:23. | |
elected mayor? It is a question that voters in ten areas of England, | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
including Manchester, Birmingham and Nottingham, will be considering | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
on Thursday. Our local government correspondent reports on the | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
arguments for and against directly elected mayors. | :21:34. | :21:40. | |
Many of the world's big cities are governed by mayors. London has got | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
one, the mayor of Paris is prominent in French politics, New | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
York's mayor is influential, but what about Nottingham? It is one of | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
10 English cities holding a referendum on Thursday. The | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
question is whether to have a mayor, not to it should be yet. Pro-mayor | :21:59. | :22:05. | |
campaigners say clearly the ship would give the city a boost. Anti- | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
mayor declared it a waste of money. This property developer is in the | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
Yes camp. He says the mayor could make the most of the Robin Hood | :22:14. | :22:20. | |
brand. We have all these fantastic ingredients but we have no recipe | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
and no MasterChef and my view is that the mayor could bring all this | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
together and be the MasterChef. the man who led much of the | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
redevelopment of Nottingham disagrees. He thinks local | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
government is already under good control and that having a mayor | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
might upset the balance of the city. We have now got a settled | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
governance that is working really well and I don't want to risk | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
change until we can be sure that other cities have proved in it can | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
work. If voters say Yes on Thursday, they council leader will be | :22:51. | :22:57. | |
replaced by a mayor in November, but the powers one new mayors have | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
not been clearly defined. Much of the resistance to the idea of an | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
elected mayor is coming from the town hall itself. Why change a | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
system that is working? Councillors managed to organise this popular | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
tram system. Would having an elected mayor make much difference | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
to the people living here? Do you think Nottingham should have a | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
mayor? Who will pay for him? think it will be a waste of money? | :23:22. | :23:30. | |
Yes. Do you think Nottingham meet someone to give it more profile? | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
The City needs revamping, it needs some work doing to it. We have took | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
a step back in time. We need something. So the moment of choice | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
is approaching. Stick with the tried and tested council set up or | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
go for individual leadership, which could give local politics sharper | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
definition. Voters must now decide which is the best way to run at the | :23:53. | :23:59. | |
City. -- to run a city. 32 flood warnings have been in | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
place today and a thousand people have been moved from their caravan | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
park to escape rising water levels. The Environment Agency is warning | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
people to stay away from swollen rivers after yet more heavy rain. | :24:10. | :24:18. | |
Jon Kay is in Liscombe in Devon now. George, this tiny hamlet on X Moore | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
has a claim to fame. This was officially the wettest place in the | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
UK during the wettest April on record. They have had a foot of | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
rainfall in the last month, three times more than normal, and you can | :24:30. | :24:37. | |
see the effect that has had on local rivers. May Day. A new month | :24:37. | :24:43. | |
begins just as the old one finished. In Northamptonshire, more than | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
1,000 people were forced to leave their 30 caravans when the Rivett | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
mean burst its banks. This sports centre became an emergency home for | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
residents shocked by the suddenness of the evacuation. We did not get | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
enough warning, that was all. Within 20 minutes we had to be off | :25:03. | :25:10. | |
the site and pack whatever and move. It is the far south-west of England | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
that has taken the biggest soaking over the last few days. In fact in | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
this part of Somerset, it has hardly rained at all today. This | :25:19. | :25:25. | |
water has come from the Mendip Hills and it is still coming down. | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
Motorists across the country have been warned to take care after | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
yesterday's death of a motorist near Newbury. | :25:33. | :25:40. | |
You have got the kids in the back. I am really scared, actually. I am | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
quite scared. It is just a bit scary. I am quite surprised we | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
still have a drought order! It is not much fun! I hope it doesn't | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
rain any more. In Tewkesbury, where the River Severn meets the River | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
Avon, water levels are still rising tonight. They are not expected to | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
peak until the morning. But the authorities say they are now | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
confident there will not be any major problem is. We are keeping a | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
close eye on the situation, using a lot of information from other | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
agencies, giving us up-to-the minute predictions. The Environment | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
Agency has now scaled down warnings on many rivers but there is still a | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
lot of surface water out there, and with more rain forecast for later | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
in the week, it is not there yet. Although here tonight, the water | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
levels are falling quite quickly. This bridge was completely | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
submerged this time yesterday, but now it has reopened to tourists, | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
although tourists here and across the country are being warned to | :26:44. | :26:51. | |
take a great deal of care. We had better get a weather | :26:51. | :27:00. | |
There is more rain in the forecast. Tonight, general vamp for many of | :27:00. | :27:10. | |
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It is through the Central's wave of the country where we will continue | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
to see light rain and drizzle through the night, but in south- | :27:18. | :27:25. | |
west England and Wales, some clear skies, and to the north of Scotland, | :27:25. | :27:32. | |
fog and mist. Quite chilly in the morning with some frost but another | :27:32. | :27:37. | |
fine day, particularly in the north-west of Scotland. Across | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
southern Scotland and a good part of England, extensive cloud to | :27:41. | :27:47. | |
begin with. It could be quite foggy to stop the day, and light rain is | :27:47. | :27:54. | |
possible just about anywhere. We will continue to see sunny spells | :27:54. | :28:03. | |
in the south-west and the north- west of Scotland. We will see some | :28:03. | :28:07. | |
brighter spells but many people will stick with thick cloud. | :28:07. | :28:13. | |
Further showers as well in the day. If you are in flight afflicted | :28:13. | :28:22. | |
areas, it is time to look away. The prospect of more rain on Thursday. | :28:22. | :28:27. | |
It could go a bit further north than where we have it here but the | :28:27. | :28:33. |