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Two unarmed police officers are shot dead after attending a routine | :00:07. | :00:12. | |
999 call. 32-year-old Fiona Bone and 23-year- | :00:12. | :00:19. | |
old Nicola Hughes were responding to reports of a burglary. Clearly | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
This is one of the darkest days in the history of Greater Manchester | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
Police, if not the Police Service overall. | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
The officers were killed in Mottram in Greater Manchester when a man | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
attacked them with a gun and a grenade. I heard about ten gunshots | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
and really, really loud gunshots, bang, bang, bang. | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
Shortly after Dale Cregan handed himself into police, he's accused | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
of luring the women to their deaths and has been arrested on suspicion | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
of murder. This is the scene live. We'll bring | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
you the latest on this developing story. | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
Also on tonight's programme: Dancing for joy - William and Kate | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
win their legal action preventing a French magazine from re-printing | :00:59. | :01:05. | |
photos of her topless. The suspected arson attack that | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
left three generations of one family dead. | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
And inflation is down to 2.5%, but the bad news is it is expected to | :01:13. | :01:23. | |
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Kevin Pietersen makes his apology to Andrew Strauss, but he is left | :01:25. | :01:35. | |
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out of the squad to tour India this Good evening. | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
Welcome to the BBC News at Six. Two police officers have been | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
killed in greater Manchester after responding to what turned out to be | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
a bogus 999 call. 32-year-old Fiona Bone and 23-year-old Nicola Hughes | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
were attacked with a gun and a grenade outside a house in Mottram. | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
Shortly after, a man handed himself into police. Dale Cregan, already a | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
wanted man, is accused of luring the officers to their deaths. The | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
Prime Minister paid tribute to the two women saying today was a | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
shocking reminder of the debt owed to those who put themselves in | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
danger. In a moment, we'll be looking at the daily risks faced by | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
the police but first let's go live to the scene and join Danny Savage | :02:24. | :02:32. | |
People in Mottram are milling around in disbelief. It is around | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
the corner from the two officers were gunned down as they went to | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
that bogus call earlier today. What happened today was described by the | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police as a dark day for | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
policing. As everyone involved is trying to come to terms with | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
today's shocking events. It was just before 11am when these | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
two, unarmed police officers, Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes were called | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
to an apparent burglary. It should have been a routine call. In fact, | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
police say it was a bogus report. And believed they were lured here | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
to the Mottram estate under deadly false pretences. I heard about ten | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
gunshots and really, really loud gunshots, you know, bang, bang, | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
bang, like that. About ten, maybe 11, quite close together and then | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
after about 10 seconds after that there was a big bang like a real | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
big explosion as if a bomb had gone off or something like that. | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
We saw the police officers running up the road, there were four or | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
five crying and shaking their heads. They were in shock obviously by | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
that time. It was soon clear that both officers were dead. And | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
Greater Manchester Police were dealing with the fact that two of | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
their own had been murdered. belief either he made the call or | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
he has got somebody else to make the call and it would appear, yes, | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
for purposes of drawing these two officers to that particular scene | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
and then he has come out and shot and killed them both. So certainly, | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
it would appear to be he has deliberately done this in an act of | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
cold-blooded murder. A short time after the shootings, | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
this man, Dale Cregan, surrended himself at a local police station. | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
He was a man they wanted to question for months for incidents | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
like this where a hand grenade was thrown at a house in Greater | :04:33. | :04:40. | |
Manchester. There was A �50,000 reward for information leading to | :04:40. | :04:47. | |
his arrest. Police interest in Dale Cregan goes back to May this year | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
when Mark Short was shot in a pub. His father, David Short condemned | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
his son's killers as as cowards, but he was murdered in a gun and | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
grenade attack in August. Detectives then said Dale Cregan | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
was wanted in connection with both killings and Greater Manchester | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
Police's biggest ever manhunt continued. Until today, when | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
gunshots and an explosion were reported in Abbey Gardens in | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
Mottram after which Dale Cregan was taken into custody. At the scene of | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
today's police murders, the floral tributes are already being left. PC | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
Fiona Bone was 32 years old. She was described today as a calm, | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
gentle woman who was planning her wedding. 23-year-old PC Nicola | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
Hughes was said to be a great bobby who was always smiling. And this | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
evening a police force is in mourning, for two officers killed | :05:44. | :05:51. | |
Now, remember the hunt for Dale Cregan, who police have been | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
talking about at length today had been going on for sometime. | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
Hundreds of officers and specialist units had been involved in that | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
hunt. They are said to be shattered about what has happened today. As | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
Greater Manchester Police try and take this inquiry on to establish | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
what did happen here today and that sequence of events. Fiona. | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
Danni, thank you. Today's deaths are believed to be | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
the first time that two policewomen have been killed in the same | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
incident anywhere in the UK. Our UK affairs correspondent Chris Buckler | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
looks now at the daily dangers facing Britain's police officers. | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
This is a force in mourning. But after the deaths of two of its | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
officers, their colleagues are left with the difficult job of gathering | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
the evidence of their murders. The women killed were unarmed, but they | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
must have known the dangers. Not just of their profession, but also | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
of the man who gave himself up after they were shot. Wanted | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
posters for Dale Cregan and Anthony Wilkinson had been on billboards | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
and police vans alongside the appeals was a huge reward for | :06:55. | :07:01. | |
information leading to arrests. The �50,000 was put on display, an | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
attempt to breakdown a wall of silence. | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
In certain areas, there were armed police put on patrol in the days | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
after the initial gun and grenade attacks. Tonight on this estate, | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
again there are officers with guns, but police constables Nicola Hughes | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
and Fiona Bone arrived here unarmed. It is a shocking reminder of what | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
the police do on our behalf. There are more armed police officers. | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
There are more armed response units, but this was supposed to be the | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
response to a domestic domestic burglary and that wouldn't normally | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
require armed officers. There is no sign that anything wrong was done. | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
The only thing there was, was an act of shocking evil. | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
Murder of police officers in England is rare and the deaths of | :07:47. | :07:54. | |
officers unarmed on their duty duty always causes shock. The names of | :07:54. | :08:04. | |
those who have died are remembered. Among them Yvonne Fletcher And Gary | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
Tomms. The dozen of police victims are now | :08:08. | :08:15. | |
joined by two more. We have been kept appraised by the force of all | :08:15. | :08:22. | |
the events and of course, the campaign to bring these people to | :08:22. | :08:29. | |
justice. We have continued to support GMP and we will continue to | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
give that support. In Northern Ireland, the police carry guns. A | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
recognition of the threat posed by paramilitaries and many more | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
officers have been killed there than in the rest of the UK. But on | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
certain estates in Manchester, the work -- there were concerns about | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
guns and grenades. The police made that clear when they appealed for | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
information about Dale Cregan and that raised questions about the | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
circumstances of these deaths. The police are having to ask -- could | :08:55. | :09:05. | |
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more have been done to protect Our Home Editor Mark Easton is | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
outside Greater Manchester Police Headquarters. The events today | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
highlight the difficulty for the police of being sufficiently | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
protected yet remaining close to the community they serve. That's | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
right. We must remember this was a routine call on a sunny morning | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
that became one of the blackest days ever in the history of Greater | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
Manchester Police, but I think also of all the police services across | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
the UK. But in responding to that, I know that the officers certainly | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
here are determined that we don't lose sight of the principles that | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
drive policing in this country. Principles indeed which are | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
endescribed on the -- inscribed on the glass walls in Manchester. The | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
principles of Robert Peel, the police are the public and the | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
public are the police. I happen to know that the Chief Constable here | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
in Manchester already has concerns that the regular wearing of stab | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
vests and the carrying of Tasers can make his officers, | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
neighbourhood officers appear militaristic and it feels that | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
policing is imposed on communities rather than policing by consent. So | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
I think that this evening while there is an understandable urge to | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
ensure that this, the risk of this kind of incident of the officers | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
safety is protected to the best of our possible degree. I think there | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
is also concern that we don't lose sight of the greater principle of | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
the relationship between the police officers themselves and the the | :10:34. | :10:43. | |
communities they serve. A court in Paris has ruled that a | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
French magazine cannot publish or sell pictures of the Duchess of | :10:45. | :10:51. | |
Cambridge, sunbathing topless. The magazine has also been told to hand | :10:51. | :10:58. | |
over all copies of the photos within 24 hours. The ruling is | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
confined to publication in France, it does not affect use of the | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
images elsewhere but the Duke and Duchess said they welcomed the | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
judgement. Nicholas Witchell reports. They didn't look like a | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
couple awaiting an important court judgement as magistrates in Paris | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
finalised their ruling, William and Kate were relaxing on the final | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
night of their tour on the South Pacific islands. After a difficult | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
few days during which they felt affronted at the invasion of their | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
privacy, they were about to have something important to celebrate. | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
In Paris, lawyers acting on behalf of William and Kate had received | :11:34. | :11:40. | |
the judgement. It is a good result said one of | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
them. Under the terms of the injunction, future publication and | :11:45. | :11:52. | |
resale of the photographs is banned. There will be a a 10,000 euro, an | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
�8,000 fine for each breach of the injunction. All photos are to be | :11:56. | :12:02. | |
handed over within 24 hours. There will be a 10,000 euro fine for each | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
day of delay. William and Kate left the dinner to study the French | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
judgement with their advisers. In a short statement, St James' Palace | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
said they welcomed the court's decision. Although the judgement | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
was against the French magazine which published the pictures, | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
French media lawyers say that commercially the magazine has done | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
well. Any magazine is going to make an economic analysis. They will say, | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
"OK, we will be sued. We will have to pay 10,000 or 20,000 or 30,000, | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
but we will sell sell so many issues, we are better off getting | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
sued and paying the damages.". Criminal prosecutors are expected | :12:46. | :12:54. | |
to investigate what happened at the the villa where William and Kate | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
were staying. There is a public road, but the road is approximately | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
500 meters from the villa. As the court court said, the the couple | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
could only have been observed by someone with a powerful lens. | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
William and Kate are hoping that the French will bring a criminal | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
prosecution, but for that to happen, the photographer has to be | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
identified and of course, this legal action only applies to France. | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
There is no suggestion that the couple are planning court action | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
elsewhere. The whole incident has been a | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
distraction from what otherwise has been a successful tour. Have | :13:32. | :13:38. | |
lessons been learned? It is safe to say the couple realise only too | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
painfully how unwise it was to lower their guard. | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
There are certainly regrets over that felt by both of them and | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
particularly by William who has a keen sense of wanting to protect | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
his wife, but there is a determination that blatant | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
invasions of privacy, will wherever possible, be challenged in the | :13:59. | :14:09. | |
More than 2,000 students in Wales have had their GCSE English results | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
upgraded. Of those, 1,200 pupils had their grades changed from a D | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
to a C. The Welsh Government intervened after students were | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
awarded lower grades than expected in August this year. The decision | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
in Wales differs to that in England where ministers have refused to | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
intervene. Three generations of the same | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
family have died in a suspected arson attack in South Wales. Six- | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
month-old Kimberley Buckley, her mother Kayleigh Buckley, who was 17, | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
and grandmother Kim Buckley died after the fire broke out in the | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
early hours of this morning. A 27- year-old man has been arrested on | :14:41. | :14:47. | |
suspicion of arson and murder. From Cwmbran, Sian Lloyd reports. When | :14:47. | :14:54. | |
fire crews arrived at this flat in Cwmbran in Newport it was already | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
too late. Inside, firefighters found the bodies of three members | :14:58. | :15:04. | |
of the same family. Grandmother Kim Buckley along with her daughter, | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
17-year-old Kayleigh and her six- month-old baby daughter Kimberley. | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
Neighbours say the little girl had been born prematurely and only | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
arrived home from hospital yesterday. It is just really | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
upsetting to think there was a young baby involved. To murder a | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
person is bad, but there was three people including a baby which is | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
shocking and very sad. Dozens of police officers and | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
forensic teams are now on the scene trying to piece together what | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
happened inside the flat. A 27- year-old man has been arrested on | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
suspicion of murder. Police have praised local people for their | :15:43. | :15:52. | |
The residents are close-knit and support each other and that was | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
echoed by the fire service coming to the scene, where local | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
neighbours were trying valiantly to enter the residents and save the | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
night -- save the lives of the family. A tightly operated Gordon | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
projects this cul-de-sac. Only people who live in the neighbouring | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
properties are being allowed through. Tonight, relatives of the | :16:13. | :16:20. | |
family have asked for privacy. And in a new development, Gwent | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
Police has voluntarily referred the case to the Independent Police | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
Complaints Commission. It emerged that officers had visited this | :16:27. | :16:33. | |
property in the past. Tonight, people who knew them are leaving | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
flowers to remember the three lives lost here. One of them which was so | :16:38. | :16:48. | |
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short lived. Our top story tonight, two unarmed | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
police officers, Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes, have been killed in | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
Greater Manchester. A man is accused of luring them to their | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
deaths with a bogus 999 call. Coming up, out in the cold, Kevin | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
Pieterson is dropped from England's winter tour of India. | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
And later on BBC London, had the capital's newest helipad could help | :17:09. | :17:15. | |
save lives south of the river. And beating Hollywood to it, the | :17:15. | :17:25. | |
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schoolchildren putting the hobbit on to the silver screen. | :17:26. | :17:32. | |
Inflation fell slightly in August with the annual rate down from 2.6 | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
to 2.5%. Slower rises in the costs of furniture and household | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
equipment are caught -- are thought to have contributed to the fall. | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
There are fears that fuel prices and a bad harvest could put it up | :17:43. | :17:50. | |
again. It is one guide to how well the | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
economic machine is working, the speed at which prices are | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
increasing. In Berkshire at the weekend's County Show, families | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
enjoying the sunshine had used on that. The latest news is that | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
inflation, cost-of-living increases, has been shipped back, measured by | :18:09. | :18:15. | |
the Consumer Prices Index. The rate was 5.2% last September but had | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
fallen to 2.5% by August. This couple were at the show with their | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
young family. They say they cannot cope with the current rate of price | :18:24. | :18:30. | |
increases. We are in a lucky position. I have a new job but we | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
are financially sorted. We have seen the bills going up but really, | :18:32. | :18:38. | |
we are all right. Even with lower inflation, prices are still rising. | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
The family needs to watch what happens to the cash. When you do | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
the weekly shop, it seems expensive. Try to come up with seven meals, | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
but the time you get to the tail, you think you've done well and then | :18:52. | :18:58. | |
you see the price, up, and yes, it is very expensive for. Michael is | :18:58. | :19:05. | |
one of the show's organisers. He farms in Newbury. Preparing to sow | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
the seed for the next crop, he has been watching global grain prices | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
rising, partly because of USA drought. He believes this will | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
eventually affect consumers here. It is not just five or �10 for a | :19:19. | :19:25. | |
ton of weeks that we get extra. The prices have gone up by 30, 40, �50 | :19:25. | :19:31. | |
a tonne. That would have a big knock on effect. The price of grain | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
and other agricultural products are always important to shoppers. But | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
where it goes from here is particularly significant for policy | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
makers, as they try to work out where inflation is heading. | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
What happens in the farmyard and on world agricultural markets could | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
have an impact on prices paid by shoppers, but there is no certainty | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
of that. It is simply a warning that while inflation is falling and | :19:55. | :20:02. | |
may come down further, there could yet be a change of direction. | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
The government has denied there has been a change of policy in | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
Afghanistan following a series of attacks on international forces by | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
rogue Afghanistan soldiers. NATO was announced it is introducing | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
tighter controls on joint operations with Afghan security | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
forces. More than 50 NATO troops have been killed by Afghan soldiers | :20:20. | :20:26. | |
this year including two this weekend. | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
13 lives lost, almost as many injured. This was the aftermath of | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
an attack on a minibus in Kabul by a 22-year-old female suicide bomber. | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
The majority of the dead were South African. An insurgent group said | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
the attack came in retaliation for the controversial and he is lamb | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
film produced in America. Today, it emerged that NATO told forces in | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
Afghanistan on Sunday to lower their profile during this time of | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
increased tension. And seek clearance from a general before | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
going on low-level operations with Afghan troops. The deaths on | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
Saturday of two British soldiers, Gareth Thursby and Thomas Wroe, | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
shot dead by an Afghan policemen, were the latest in a string of | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
insider attacks by Afghan forces, increasing the pressure on NATO to | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
do more to limit such casualties. Amid confusion over what the orders | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
meant for British troops, the Defence Secretary was summoned to | :21:22. | :21:29. | |
Parliament to explain. We have taken prudent and temporary | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
measures to reduce our profile and vulnerability to civil measures and | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
insider attacks. He insisted there was no stranger -- change in | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
strategy but Paul Flynn, the Labour MP, was suspended from the chamber | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
after a few Rafique -- after refusing to withdraw of this remark. | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
Isn't this similar to the end of the First World War, when it was | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
said that politicians lied and soldiers died, and the reality was, | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
as it is now, that our brave soldiers are being led by | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
ministerial donkeys? Some MPs questioned what was being achieved | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
in Afghanistan. But the UK still has 9500 troops, although that will | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
come down to 9000 by the end of the year. It has -- combat operations | :22:14. | :22:20. | |
will be finished by 2014. The MoD insists that British soldiers will | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
continue to work side by side with their Afghan counterparts, | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
remaining central to NATO's strategy. But some fear that the | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
Taliban's use of insider attacks is having an impact in forcing NATO to | :22:32. | :22:38. | |
respond. Health campaigners and Wales are | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
calling on the Welsh Government to rethink major cuts to hospital | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
services which they believe could up -- could lead to lives being put | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
at risk. The health board to put under pressure to balance the books | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
following a reduced funding settlement. How will Griffith | :22:52. | :22:59. | |
joined us from Flint. Tonight, more than 500 have marched | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
to the centre of flint campaigning for the future of a small hospital, | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
earmarked for closure. It is part of reforms happening across Wales | :23:07. | :23:13. | |
to improve patient care and save money. In Wales, politicians take | :23:13. | :23:19. | |
great pride in claiming the NHS as a Welsh invention. Launched by | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
Aneurin Bevan, it is perhaps in his homeland that it faces its most | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
critical problems. Wales has the oldest population in the UK, but it | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
is also where health spending has been cut the most. Leading to | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
difficult decisions. Yvonne Briscoe is a patient who has had to face | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
her own tough decision. Refused funding and Wales for cancer drugs, | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
she has decided to go over the border and spend �400 a month | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
renting a flat in England. So that she can qualify for treatment at | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
this hospital in Manchester. It is like a postcode lottery. Depending | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
on where you live and whether you get a drug that might prolong your | :23:58. | :24:06. | |
life. I find it is completely ridiculous. This year, the NHS | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
budget was �5.5 billion in Wales but to cope with rising costs, �250 | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
million of savings are also needed, million of savings are also needed, | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
and over four years, local health and over four years, local health | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
boards need to find up to �1 billion worth of savings. I have | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
given them as much money as I had been given. I only have so much | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
money but as a government, we give over 40% of the government budget | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
to the NHS. Reform in Wales will mean rationalisation and fewer | :24:35. | :24:42. | |
small hospitals like this one. But leaders of -- doctors' leaders are | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
concerned. Cuts are too fast, which means that patients cannot be | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
sorted out when they are admitted. It also does not seem to have a | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
proper strategic direction. Change is seldom possible -- seldom | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
popular. Reforms in England will mean more competition but in Wales | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
Benin been doing more with less. -- in Wales they me mean. | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
Cricket, and Kevin Pieterson says he is disappointed to be left out | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
of the Test squad for South Africa this winter. The ECB said there | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
were still issues to be resolved over the test message dispute. The | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
announcement was made as the 2020 tournament got underway in Sri | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
Lanka. -- Twenty20. Look at Kevin Pieterson and what do | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
you see? One of England's greatest- ever players or simply a disruptive | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
influence? The simple truth is that he is not play for England now had | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
he will not be on the next tour. Talent alone is apparently not | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
enough. Yes, he is one of the best batsman in the world but it is not | :25:43. | :25:49. | |
just about an individual, it is about 18. It is about a unit and if | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
there are issues, they have to be cleared. A Kevin Pieterson said | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
today that he is still available to play for England but it is not his | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
decision. Right now, there is an England team in Sri Lanka preparing | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
for the world Twenty20 competition and they're getting used to getting | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
on without him. As much as everyone else can talk about it, we are | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
purely focused on the dressing room. Myself, I'm just thinking about how | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
I will score runs and focusing on what I'm doing. If I start worrying | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
about people who were not here, it will put us in a bad position. | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
Remember, England are the defending champions. Their victory two years | :26:28. | :26:30. | |
ago was their first ever win in a global cricket tournament but | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
remember, then, they did it with Kevin Pieterson, who was the man of | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
the tournament. Andrew Strauss may recall that Kevin Pieterson's text | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
message affair soured his final days as captain but English cricket | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
is trying to move on without Andrew Strauss and that means moving on | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
without Kevin Pieterson. Perhaps permanently. | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
permanently. Weather: Is the sunny weather going | :26:57. | :27:04. | |
to continue? For some of us, yes, few enough. -- | :27:04. | :27:11. | |
Fiona. The good news is that the sharp showers are fading away for | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
most of us. The wind will fall lighter tonight, and it will be a | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
chilly night. Still breezy at the moment and that will be driving | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
showers into Lancashire and Cheshire and maybe into the north | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
and west of Scotland and Northern Ireland. Away from that, the wind | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
is falling light. It is quite a cold night. In major towns and | :27:31. | :27:37. | |
cities, the temperatures will be in single figures. Quite chilly in | :27:37. | :27:42. | |
rural spots. Some showers peppering the North and West of Scotland and | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
may be into Northern Ireland but the east should have a lovely start. | :27:45. | :27:51. | |
A bit fresher. Still few showers for Lancashire and Cheshire, may be | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
drifting into the Midlands but the bulk of Wales and central and | :27:55. | :27:59. | |
southern England, are enjoying a lovely start. Yes, it is a bit | :27:59. | :28:02. | |
chilly at 89 degrees but there will be sunshine and it is not | :28:02. | :28:08. | |
particularly windy. Through the day, there will be showers developing. | :28:08. | :28:16. | |
Still the potential for a sharper showers. The best at -- the best | :28:16. | :28:19. | |
chance for staying dry is in the southern counties of England. | :28:19. | :28:23. | |
Temperatures on a par with today. All change as we look towards | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
Thursday because the next weather system is heading our way. That is | :28:26. | :28:31. | |
going to bring persistent rain into Northern Ireland, southern Scotland, | :28:31. | :28:36. | |
northern England, and bought Wales. Underneath that band of rain, it | :28:36. | :28:41. | |
will be a disappointing reign -- will be a disappointing reign -- | :28:41. | :28:48. | |
day. -- North Wales. A reminder of tonight's main news, | :28:48. | :28:51. |