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David Cameron announces his first major Cabinet reshuffle since the | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
coalition came to power. The Prime Minister puts new faces at key | :00:15. | :00:23. | |
departments as he tries to relaunch the Government. This reshuffle is | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
about looking to the future, building on reforms, focusing on | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
delivery and bringing forward the next generation. The Government can | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
change faces all they like. Policies need to change. A new boss | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
at Transport sparks a row over Heathrow. The London Mayor says | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
David Cameron is planning a third runway. We will be asking if there | :00:43. | :00:53. | |
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are new policies to go along with the new politicians. Also tonight: | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
Within the last few minutes, Ellie Simmonds misses out on a third gold | :01:00. | :01:10. | |
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medal. But it is gold for header Frederiksen. Northern Ireland | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
cannot afford another night like this. A warning from the police who | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
say someone could be killed in the rioting. And a breakthrough in the | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
row over milk prices. Farmers and supermarkets reach a deal. In the | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
sport: Warren Gatland is confirmed as the man to lead the British and | :01:25. | :01:35. | |
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Irish Lions in Australia next Good evening. Welcome to the BBC | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
News at Six. David Cameron has made a series of key changes in his | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
first major Cabinet reshuffle. Andrew Lansley, who steered through | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
the controversial health reforms, has been replaced by the former | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt. And the Transport Secretary, who | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
opposed a new runway at Heathrow, has been moved on, sparking off an | :02:02. | :02:10. | |
angry reaction from the London Mayor, Boris Johnson. We'll have | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
more on that but, first, here's our political editor, Nick Robinson, on | :02:12. | :02:22. | |
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what lies behind this Cabinet shake up. If only sweeping up political | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
problems was this easy. They cleaned up Downing Street in | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
preparation for some new ministerial brooms. The Prime | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
Minister returned from early morning meetings in the House of | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
Commons. He had been firing those deemed to have failed. It was to | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
allow those he was going to hire to parade their way through the door | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
of Number 10. One new arrival, Chris Grayling. He has been asked | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
to head off criticism this Government has gone soft on crime | :02:53. | :03:01. | |
and human rights. What have you got? The answer was Justice. His | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
answer was Health. Many watchers predicted the sack for the former | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
health secretary -- Culture Secretary. It is a huge task. The | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
biggest privilege of my life. I'm looking forward to getting on with | :03:15. | :03:23. | |
the job. Another surprise new face is Patrick McLoughlin. The former | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
government chief whip now transport secretary. In it is about looking | :03:26. | :03:33. | |
to the future, focusing on delivery and looking to the next generation. | :03:33. | :03:40. | |
The Prime Minister today shuffled more than half the cabinet pack. He | :03:40. | :03:47. | |
concentrated on the Tory, rather than the Lib Dem Part of the | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
coalition. The man in charge of the controversial health changes now | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
has to sell the policies. Jeremy Hunt, once in the firing line for | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
the merger with BSkyB, it gets the job of winning them back. The job | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
of Ken Clarke as Justice Secretary was meant to be filled by Iain | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
Duncan-Smith. He turned down the Prime Minister's offer. Lucky for | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
this man, who gets a big promotion. Ken Clarke warned colleagues | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
against filling the prisons, partly because of cost. This is what Chris | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
Grayling told the Tory conference about crime. People think our | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
criminal justice system is broken. Worrying too much about the | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
criminals and not enough about the justice. The woman who was made | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
Transport Secretary less than a year ago, Justine Greening, now | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
loses that job. She is replaced by a man that does a share have public | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
opposition to expanding Heathrow Airport. Patrick McLoughlin is a | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
plain-speaking former miner from the Midlands, nowhere near those | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
airports. That was bitterly condemned by Boris Johnson, he said | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
he would fight the madness of a new runway. This reshuffle did little | :05:03. | :05:10. | |
to change the top of the Cabinet. The Chancellor, foreign, home, | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
defence and Welfare Secretary is, all kept their jobs. Staying in | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
position all the Liberal Democrat ministers. Back there are not at | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
the top table is the man who resigned over his expenses two | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
years ago, David Laws. He becomes Schools Minister. The Government | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
can change the face is all they like. It is the policies that need | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
to change. No change in the economic direction, no change on | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
the reorganisation of the NHS. Delivery, that is what the Prime | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
Minister says his changes are all about. Every solution deliver it | :05:45. | :05:52. | |
brings with it potential political problems. -- solution delivered. As | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
we've heard, Justine Greening, a fierce opponent of expanding | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
Heathrow Airport, has lost her job as Transport Secretary. It has re- | :05:59. | :06:06. | |
opened the row over Britain's airport capacity. Of all the cards | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
the Prime Minister has played in this reshuffle, the appointment of | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
Patrick McLoughlin as transport secretary is potentially one of the | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
most important? His appointment could pave the way for a massive | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
expansion of airport capacity in the south of England, including, | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
potentially, a U-turn on opposing a third runway at Heathrow Airport. | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
He was the Transport Minister under Margaret Thatcher. Today he said he | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
had an open mind on the future of Heathrow. That is not the view of | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
this woman - his predecessor - Justine Greening. Not just a | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
supporter of high-speed rail, as a West London MP, she is a firm | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
opponent of a third runway at Heathrow. That his coalition policy | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
for now. More Conservatives are coming and the view that a third | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
runway at Heathrow should be in the mix, including the Chancellor and | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
others at the Treasury. If the Government wants to rethink its | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
policy, it needs a Transport Secretary who can live with it. | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
First up is a planned consultation on all of theirs. That could | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
involve expanding Stansted or a brand new hub airport on the River | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
Thames east of London or the controversial extra runway at | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
Heathrow. Even the possibility of that prompted Boris Johnson to | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
attack the reshuffle, saying it was clear the Government was ditching | :07:25. | :07:34. | |
his promise not to expand Heathrow. He is not alone. If there any | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
change to government policy in having a third runway at Heathrow, | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
I would lose my seat. I was elected to Parliament in fighting the | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
Campaign Against a third runway at Heathrow. I need to make sure that | :07:47. | :07:53. | |
we, as a government committee to a promise. Increasing airport | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
capacity and other infrastructure projects such as the high-speed | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
rail line from London to Birmingham form a key part of the Government's | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
search for economic growth. Transport Secretary needs to have | :08:06. | :08:13. | |
an open mind about the options. He needs to ensure they are considered | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
fairly. We need decisions from this government. Business cannot wait | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
until 2015 to get a decision. Whatever change Patrick McLoughlin | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
may bring, it will not be quick. Democrats are firmly opposed to | :08:26. | :08:36. | |
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Let's get more now from Nick Robinson in Downing Street. In a | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
broader sense, what do these changes say about the direction of | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
the Government? They say the Government is not changing its | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
central economic strategy. The Chancellor stays in place. He has | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
ensured that at junior ministerial level, many of his allies have jobs. | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
There is one fascinating appointments in what Downing Street | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
are saying about delivery rather than policy. The man who is chief | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
executive of LOCOG, an investment banker, it joins the Treasury. His | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
job is not to build Olympic Stadium but make sure that all those roads, | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
houses, bridges and all the rest we have long been promised by | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
politicians, actually do get built. What other changes really about? | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
Addressing problems. The Prime Minister has gone through a list of | :09:29. | :09:35. | |
problems and tried to find people to sort them. Airports, the NHS. | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
Not just the unpopular reforms but the biggest squeeze to the health | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
service finances in its entire lifetime. Jeremy Hunt awarded -- | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
rewarded for the way he handled the Olympics rather than the way he | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
handled the Murdochs. Then justice. It is a real problem in the Tory | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
family and the Tory press. Every solution brings its problems. If | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
Chris Grayling wants more prison places, if he wants to lock up more | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
people, what will that do? Cost more money and upset the coalition | :10:10. | :10:17. | |
partners in the Liberal Democrats. The way out of all his problems, I | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
suppose, is to have another reshuffle. And you can find full | :10:22. | :10:32. | |
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details of today's Cabinet reshuffle online at the website. In | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
the Paralympics, at Ellie Simmonds missed out on her third gold medal | :10:38. | :10:48. | |
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of the Games but managed to get bronze. The last time we saw Prince | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
Harry poolside, it was in rather different circumstances in Las | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
Vegas. Today he was watching one of the few people to have made as many | :11:02. | :11:08. | |
reason headlines as he has. 50m freestyle is the weakest event for | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
Ellie Simmonds. She has two golds but a medal of any colour in this | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
race would have been an achievement. Mary Keitany is the record holder. | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
She never looked like catching have. -- Mirjam de Koning-Peper. The | :11:25. | :11:32. | |
touch was good. Ellie Simmonds had another medal. The smile said it | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
all. She has already secured her status as one of the superstars of | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
these Games. The Prime Minister presented her gold medal last night. | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
I asked the man in charge of her coaching if there has ever been | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
anyone like her. She could be a one-off but we will not stop | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
searching for another one like her, which will help the British team. | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
She is unique. I think it is her attributes that such as her | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
organisation, work ethic, ability to learn new things, which makes a | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
champion athlete. Heather Frederiksen had been training to be | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
an Olympics the match until an accident in 2004 letter with | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
limited use of her right arm and leg. A doctor told her she would | :12:19. | :12:25. | |
never swim again. Here she was racing to victory in the 100m | :12:25. | :12:33. | |
backstroke, successfully defending the title she won in Beijing. That | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
is Great Britain's this gold medal in the pool. Gold and silver in the | :12:39. | :12:46. | |
archery. Danielle Bram won. The footballers have looked at | :12:46. | :12:54. | |
tournaments with their skill for decades block. Blind players are no | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
exception. How about that for a goal! Let's have a look at the | :13:00. | :13:10. | |
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Hopes that the Olympics would give a boost to Britain's flagging | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
retail sales have been dashed. Figures out today show that sales | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
actually fell by 0.4% in August, compared with a year ago. It seems | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
people preferred to watch the Games on TV rather than spending time in | :13:28. | :13:37. | |
the shops. Emma Simpson is in Stratford near the Olympic Park now. | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
They are streaming out of the park after enjoying that afternoon of | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
sport. Chances are, a lot of folks will do some shopping. We are at | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
the edge of the Big Mal and it is heaving. Today the first piece of | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
hard evidence about the impact of the Olympics in the retail set. It | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
has been a very different story and elsewhere. It has been a glorious | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
summer, with excitement and medals galore. There has been little gold | :14:06. | :14:12. | |
for retail. Things did not bode well from the start as London | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
streets and teed and shoppers stayed away from the west end, | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
although numbers did not -- did pick up. Most of us enjoyed the | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
Games so much, we did not want to shot, especially those lucky enough | :14:25. | :14:31. | |
to come to the Olympic Park. It is once in a lifetime. I'm sure it has | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
hurt the High Street. You have got to come. It has been done so well. | :14:36. | :14:43. | |
The atmosphere was amazing. Retail sales overall have taken a hit. | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
Food and drink were up. Big-ticket items like home furnishings were | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
down. We were so glued to the television, even reliable growth in | :14:53. | :15:02. | |
online sales shrank last month. In Stratford-upon-Avon, to shot owners | :15:02. | :15:09. | |
stocked up for an Olympic spending spree. My gut feeling was, do not | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
actually go there. I did not have any products. I am pleased with my | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
decision. For the industry as a whole, any chance to boost sales | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
has to be seized on right now. year to date has been poor. A | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
number of retailers have struggled. Let's not forget retail is the | :15:29. | :15:36. | |
biggest single private set employer. That is 3 million jobs. Jobs really | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
matter. Just like the Olympics, there were winners and losers in | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
retail. Sales at this bike shot chain have certainly moved up a | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
gear. Since the Tour de France and the start of the Olympics, August | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
has picked up. The first week of the Olympics was difficult. The | :15:54. | :16:01. | |
second week picked up a me had a record week. The Olympic feel-good | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
factor. -- and we had a record week. It is about whether this would | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
transfer to the high street after the Games has gone. Some would say | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
it is not a bad thing we have not gone shopping. August is | :16:15. | :16:21. | |
traditionally quiet. What this economy needs is confidence. | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
Retailers will hope there will be a pick-up in sales. Dare I mention | :16:25. | :16:35. | |
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David Cameron announces major changes to his Cabinet in a bid to | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
relaunch the government. And coming up, Scotland's First Minister paved | :16:39. | :16:46. | |
the way for a vote on Scottish independence. | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
Later on the BBC News Channel, the Olympic boost that never happened, | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
retailers suffer in August, but the service sector bucked the trend and | :16:53. | :17:03. | |
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reports a far better August than Hayes senior police officer in | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
Northern Ireland says he fears someone could be killed if rioting | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
continues into a third night. Rioters have taken to the street in | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
north Belfast in a dispute over parades. With the latest, here is | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
Ireland correspondent Mark Simpson. Keeping the peace in this part of | :17:23. | :17:29. | |
Belfast has proved impossible. Two nights in a row. One road divides | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
two communities, mainly Catholics on one side, Protestants on the | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
other. Hardline elements on both sides of the road have been | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
involved in the recent violence. Police came under attack as they | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
tried to keep rival loyalist and republican crowds apart. In total, | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
more than 60 have been hurt this week, all in this one small part of | :17:52. | :17:58. | |
north Belfast. Today police made a short but direct appeal. We need an | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
urgent resolution to this issue, or there is a very real possibility | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
that somebody will be killed over the course of the next few days and | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
weeks. Tension has been simmering since a loyalist band was accused | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
of playing a sectarian June outside the local Catholic church, but | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
there is a wider issue, the underlying divisions. Some | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
Unionists say they feel left behind by the peace process. We are still | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
suffering, and people in the United Kingdom have not grasped that. | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
People and Stormont can say, yes, it has moved on. Some parts of the | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
province have moved on, our community here has not moved on. | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
Paddy Higgins lives on the other side of the road. He was born in | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
1994, the same year as the IRA ceasefire. But he thinks Paumen and | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
peace is still a long way off. There are people of my age you do | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
get involved, and they have been brought up in a community where | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
they have always got involved, and that is the only reason why they do, | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
not choice. Here in the city centre, it is hard to believe there was a | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
full-scale riot last night only a mile away. Life has continued as | :19:05. | :19:11. | |
normal, not just here, but right across Northern Ireland. But back | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
in north Belfast, the police were on high alert. Talks aimed at | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
defusing the tension have so far failed. | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
The mother of a man who was shot dead by the Metropolitan Police | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
seven years ago has today accused officers of executing a son. 24- | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
year-old at the Azelle Rodney was shot six times as police believed | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
he was reaching for a weapon. An inquiry was shown footage of the | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
police chase in which his vehicle was brought to a halt. | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
Police in Norfolk have named a woman whose body was found in the | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
River per year. Annette Creegan, 49 and from Surrey, is believed to | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
have been strangled. Her partner is believed to have drowned. Her 13- | :19:54. | :20:00. | |
year-old daughter was found alone on the boat on Saturday. | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
Scotland's First Minister has confirmed that a Bill to pave the | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
way for a referendum on independence will be put before the | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
Holyrood parliament, setting out his Government's legislative | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
programme, Alex Salmond told MSPs that only independents would give | :20:13. | :20:20. | |
Scotland the power to create growth and jobs. -- independence. | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
A low-key start to an important day in the business of governing | :20:23. | :20:29. | |
Scotland. A legislative programme, 15 bills. At its heart, one which | :20:29. | :20:35. | |
will set out the framework for a referendum on independence. Without | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
full responsibility for the economy, we will continue to be constrained | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
by the choices, frequently disastrous choices, being made by | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
Westminster. With independence we would have the fiscal powers needed | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
for it -- needed to bring forward capital spending, encourage more | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
businesses to invest will start up in Scotland. What do we know so far | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
about how the referendum which could decide whether Scotland stays | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
in or leaves the political union with England, Wales and Northern | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
Ireland would work? It is expected to take place in autumn of 2014. | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
The signals are that 16 and 17 year-olds will be allowed to vote, | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
but it is not yet clear whether voters should after answer a | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
straight question of whether there should be an additional question on | :21:20. | :21:26. | |
more powers for Scotland. The SNP's opponents say this is a government, | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
a First Minister obsessed with independence, with gimmicks over | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
substantive policy. He says he cannot change Scotland because he | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
does not have enough power, so he does not use the power he has to | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
change Scotland for the better. What, then, of the other | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
legislation on the cards? There will be built on same-sex marriage | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
which has cross-party support but is opposed by some faith groups, | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
including the Catholic Church. -- there will be a bill. The Scottish | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
government has pledged to protect capital spending on projects which | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
will support economic growth, and there is a plan to increase | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
childcare up to 600 hours per year, more than what is available in | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Families at this nursery in | :22:12. | :22:21. | |
Edinburgh approved. We are barely covering the day-care, so it would | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
be good to have more help. The SNP does have a majority of MSPs in | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
this Parliament, so it has a good chance of getting its legislation | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
through. They already argue they are doing a good job in tough | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
economic times, but ahead of the referendum they want to convince | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
Scots that full economic powers are necessary. Today was all about | :22:44. | :22:52. | |
starting to make those arguments. We can get more from Scotland | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
political editor Brian Taylor, the joins us now from Holyrood. We | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
heard the First Minister talking about the referendum, but how will | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
it go down when people are worried about where the next pay cheque is | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
coming from, about their jobs? is a key point. The economy is | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
central in his own right but certainly with an eye to the | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
referendum as well. The question is whether people will feel they can | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
move towards this radical steps of independence, whether they feel the | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
time is not propitious, that they will feel cautious, concerned, | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
anxious about the economy, and perhaps not open to the argument of | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
independence. That is a concern that is shared by some strategists, | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
but the alternative view that Alex Salmond was advancing his that the | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
mess in the economy is of London's making, and that independence would | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
allow Scotland to shake the economy to its own priorities and needs. | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
All right, thanks very much, thank you. | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
For months, dairy farmers have been protesting over falling milk prices | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
and have been calling for a better deal. Today there has been a | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
breakthrough with both farmers and milk processors signing up to a | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
voluntary code of practice. We can get more from Jeremy Cooke, who | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
joined us from a dairy farm in Hinckley. Will the deal lead to | :24:05. | :24:11. | |
higher prices for farmers? Well, yes, in a word, it should. | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
Have a look at these beautiful cars, they represent the future of the | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
dairy industry, but it is a future which has, we are told, been put at | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
risk in recent times because of his ongoing fight between the big | :24:25. | :24:34. | |
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Dairy cows in an English meadow, a timeless vision of the British | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
countryside, but for how long? Farmers have been warning that | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
supermarkets and processes are driving costs so low that many of | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
them are being forced out of business. Today, though, finally, a | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
breakthrough. The industry has been so fragmented that we are never had | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
enough power to do anything, but I have never seen the industry | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
becomes so tight-knit as in the last six months, helping each other | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
now, and I think the processes and the supermarkets have realised that | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
the farmers mean business, and I think that is why we are starting | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
to see things happen, because we will not give up now until the job | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
is resolved. It is all about the prize of milk. Farmers complain | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
that they are losing about 4p on every leader they produce. They say | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
they have been bullied into contracts which give you my | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
advantage to the big buyers. -- huge advantage. A series of cuts in | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
the price that farmers are paid led to protests and now a voluntary | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
code of practice. It says farmers should get more flexible contracts, | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
be given better notice of price changes, and offered a chance to | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
find better deals elsewhere. The National Farmers' Union has | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
welcomed the news. Many big processors are also signing up. | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
What the voluntary code of practice will do is enable farmers to | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
understand how their price is calculated, and what they are | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
telling me is that they want transparency, they want to | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
understand why they get the prices they do, and this code of practice | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
is a massive step forward. The code of conduct will not solve all of | :26:10. | :26:17. | |
the problems, but it is a much needed positive move. | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
That brings us to the weather now with John Hammond. | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
No mention of the white stuff in his forecast, George, it is going | :26:24. | :26:32. | |
to get warmer as we end the week, A band of cloud, the odd spot of | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
drizzly rain nestling into southern counties as we go into this evening. | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
At the other end of the UK, very windy across the far north, but a | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
fine evening in between, and it will settle into a quiet night. The | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
worst of the winds will moderate, the cloud will break up further | :26:47. | :26:53. | |
south. A fresh night in rural spots, but not desperately cold anywhere. | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
Tomorrow is looking good, a fine day, plain and simple. There will | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
be fair weather cloud building up, but it should not threaten rain | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
except for north-western parts of Scotland. Fleeting affairs. Any | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
cloud across the south-east should tend to break up, and it will be a | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
nice day and down the UK. There will be some cloud, a few showers | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
running into northern parts of Scotland in particular, but broken | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
cloud for Northern Ireland, northern England, too. Temperatures | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
in the mid to high teens, breeze not too strong, feeling comfortable | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
in the sunshine. Some of the best sunshine across southern counties, | :27:31. | :27:33. | |
particularly towards the south coast where early cloud should | :27:33. | :27:38. | |
clear away from the south-east, 21 in London, pretty comfortable. | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
Looking further ahead, high pressure in the south keeps things | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
fine and settled after a chilly start, but all changed further | :27:45. | :27:51. | |
north, wet and windy weather in north-western a lot of clouds | :27:51. | :27:53. | |
spilling into Scotland and Northern Ireland. Beyond that, things to | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
settle down and a warm-up as well. Temperatures are set to rise quite | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
sharply at the end of the week. I would not be surprised if some | :28:02. | :28:06. | |
southern counties reach the dizzy heights of the high 20s at the | :28:06. | :28:13. |