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A nurse who took the hoax call from two Australian DJs about the | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
Duchess of Cambridge has been found dead. Jacintha Saldanha had worked | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
at the hospital for four years T Duchess was treated at the hospital | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
earlier this week, suffering from extreme morning sickness. We can | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
confirm that Jacintha was recently the victim of a prank call to the | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
hospital. The hospital had been supporting her through this | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
difficult time. Jacintha was a first-class nurse, who cared | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
diligently for hundreds of patients during her time with us. | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
Australian DJs rang the hospital and managed to find out details of | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
the Duchess's medical condition. They apologised afterwards. The | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have said they were deeply saddened to | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
learn of the death of Jacintha Saldanha and they had been looked | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
after wonderfully at the hospital. Also - the mother who went into | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
hiding with her son, now in court to try and stop him having | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
radiotherapy for a life-threatening brain tumour. Hillary Clinton in | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
Northern Ireland calls for peace after this week's violence, as a | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
rocket launch is -- launcher is found in Londonderry. David Cameron | :01:22. | :01:28. | |
says he will not force churches to carry out gay marriages. And 40 | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
years since man last stepped on the moon - it could be your turn, if | :01:33. | :01:39. | |
you have a spare �1 billion. And coming up on the BBC News Channel - | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
England tighten their grip on the Third Test. | :01:43. | :01:53. | |
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Good evening. Welcome to the BBC News at Six. A nurse who took a | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
prank call from two Australian DJs about the Duchess of Cambridge has | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
been found dead. The King Edward VII's Hospital, where the Duchess | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
was treated earlier this week for extreme morning sickness said | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
Jacintha Saldanha was an excellent and well-respected nurse, who had | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
been the victim of a hoax call. She was married with two children. On | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
Tuesday, it is understood she first answered the call from the two DJs | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
who were pretending to be the Queen and Prince Charles and put it | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
through to the Duchess's hospital room. This report contains some | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
flash photography. It was a prank call intended as a joke. This | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
morning police were called to an address near the King Edward VII's | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
Hospital, there they found the body of the nurse who initially answered | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
the call. It is with deep sadness that I can confirm the death of a | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
member of our nursing staff - Jacintha Saldanha. Jacintha has | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
worked at the King Edward VII's Hospital for more than four years. | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
She was an excellent nurse and well respected and popular with all of | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
her colleagues. We can confirm that Jacintha was recently the victim of | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
a hoax call to the hospital. The hospital had been supporting her | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
through this very difficult time. In a statement from St James's | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
Palace, a spokesman said the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
deeply saddened to learn of the death of Jacintha Saldanha. The | :03:30. | :03:40. | |
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The prank call was made by two Australian radio presenters called | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
Mel Greig and Michael Christian. They work for a Sydney radio | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
station called 2Day FM. Nurse Saldanha was on duty at King Edward | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
VII's Hospital when the call came through early on Tuesday morning. | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
She answered the call and was taken in by the caller's impersonation of | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
the Queen. She put the call through to a second nurbs who was | :04:13. | :04:23. | |
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monitoring -- nurse who was This is desperately sad. It has | :04:28. | :04:35. | |
come as a great shock. Yes. It's a desperate story, | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
desperately sad. Just precisely as you say. A universally sad reaction | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
that has been the reaction from the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, as | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
they said in their statement - deeply saddened. That is rather an | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
understatement of how they are feeling just now. Of course it will | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
be for an inquest to work out precisely the sequence of events. | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
What did happen, what was the cause of death. We don't know anything | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
about that at this stage. St James's Palace has pointed out that | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
at no stage did they make a complaint about how the hospital | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
handled the hoax call. They said, we offered our full and heart-felt | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
support to the nurses involved in the prank call. We have heard | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
nothing from Sydney from, the station 2Day FM or from the two | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
presenters who thought it would be funny to make this prank call. | :05:27. | :05:34. | |
Indeed, a short time ago, a tape of the call was still on the radio | :05:34. | :05:41. | |
station's website. Thanks very much. A mother who sparked a nationwide | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
manhunt after going into hiding with her seven-year-old son has | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
spent the day at the High Court, challenging the medical treatment | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
doctors say he should receive. He has a life threatening brain tumour. | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
She is trying to stop him having radiotherapy, which she says could | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
harm him. Neon Roberts was described as a | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
funny boy - a seven-year-old who had a brain tumour removed in an | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
operation. A mother who is questioning what treatment happens | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
next. Sally Roberts arrived at court today to challenge doctors. | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
They have advised drugs, radiotherapy - but she is concerned | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
about the impact that radiotherapy could have. He had an operation in | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
October to remove his brain tumour. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy are | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
recommended to follow. It is the standard treatment for a child with | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
this cancer. His mum launched legal action at the High Court, concerned | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
that radiotherapy could damage his brain. She went missing on Monday | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
with Neon, but they were found yesterday. Sally Roberts told the | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
judge today she only wants the best for her son. | :06:53. | :07:00. | |
Today, her mum and dad spoke to the BBC, saying they want every option | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
considered carefully, including their grandson just having | :07:04. | :07:10. | |
chemotherapy. We're not against the medical profession. All we want to | :07:10. | :07:16. | |
do is the very best for our grandchild. That is exploring every | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
avenue. We could be told, you are completely wrong. That's fine. | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
court heard there is a risk of some brain damage from radiotherapy, but | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
experts say it gives the best chance of survival, so much so that | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
it east the standard treatment across the UK. | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
What the court has to decide is what's in Neon's best interests. | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
Weighing up the extra chance of survival that radiotherapy could | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
give him, against the potential long-term damage to his brain. When | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
children need treatment, it's parents who have to decide. Often | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
facing difficult and painful dilemmas. Trying to make a decision | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
with the help of doctors. There's nobody who knows more about that | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
child and their quality of life and the choices that they would want to | :08:05. | :08:12. | |
make than that family. What you bring, as the clinician, is an | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
understanding of having seen the progression of this particular | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
illness or disease. In Neon's case, his parents don't agree. So the | :08:20. | :08:27. | |
judge will decide and that could be as early as tomorrow. | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
On a visit to Northern Ireland Hillary Clinton has condemned this | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
week's violence in Belfast which has been sparked by anger among | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
some loyalists at plans to stop flying the Union Flag every day | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
over City Hall. A local MP who supports the proposal was advised | :08:42. | :08:51. | |
not to return to her home after a death threat. Hours before the -- | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
Hillary Clinton's arrival, police intercepted a rocket launcher. Back | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
in Belfast and back to hear about the state of the peace process. | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
Hillary Clinton has always known it was not perfect, but she came here | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
to tell politicians to keep working together and not allow violence to | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
drive them apart. There will always be disagreements in democratic | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
societies. We are experts at that in the United States. We have a lot | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
of very serious difficult disagreements that divide us. But | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
violence is never an acceptable response to those disagreements. | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
The security situation in Northern Ireland is causing concern. Last | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
night, in Londonderry, police investigating dissident republicans | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
stopped a car and found inside a rocket launcher type devise. This | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
is a weapon designed to attack armoured vehicles and kill the | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
occupants of those vehicles. County Down a letter bomb was | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
intercepted. In Ballymena there were more protests by loyalists. | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
They are complaining about the decision of Belfast City Council, | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
to stop flying the Union Flag every day. The cross-community Alliance | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
Party supported the flag decision. One of their offences has -- | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
offices has since been destroyed by loyalists. It emerged that the East | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
Belfast MP, Naomi Long, has received death threats and been | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
advised by police to leave her home. I will not let that threat deter me | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
from serving my constituents. I will not let it influence decisions | :10:22. | :10:28. | |
that my party takes. The taking down of one flag has led to four | :10:28. | :10:36. | |
days of trouble. There are British symbols everywhere you look - on | :10:36. | :10:43. | |
Belfast's Shankill Road. So, why do these symbols matter so much? Some | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
people here feel that the peace process has made Northern Ireland | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
less British. I would like to see my flag, which belongs to my Queen, | :10:52. | :10:58. | |
flying in my country. The Union Jack is our flag. It should be | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
flown. There are huge swathes of people here who feel that the peace | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
process has left them out and left them behind. I think that's part of | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
the problem. Hillary Clinton was briefed on the on-going | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
difficulties today. She also got a glimpse of the new Belfast and | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
visited the recently opened Titanic tourist centre. Northern Ireland | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
has changed dramatically in the past ten years and she said she | :11:22. | :11:31. | |
still believed its future is bright. The Prime Minister says he supports | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
same-sex marriages in churches, synagogues, mosques and other | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
religious buildings. He says she does not want gay people to be | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
excluded from a great institution. Plans will be unveiled next week. | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
Religions such as the Church of England will not be forced to | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
conduct the ceremonies. I am in favour because I am a supporter of | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
marriage. I don't want gay people to be excluded from a great | :11:56. | :12:02. | |
institution. Let me be 100% clear - if there is any church or any | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
synagogue or mosque that does mot want to have a gay marriage, it | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
will not, it must not be forced to hold it. Well, our political | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
correspondent is at Westminster. This represents a significant shift | :12:13. | :12:19. | |
in Mr Cameron's view. Yes, it does. I mean David Cameron has always | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
supported the idea of same-sex marriages, but only in a civil | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
setting, so only in a registry office or one other place like a | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
country house where people can get married nowadays. What he's saying | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
now is religious organisations should be allowed to conduct | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
marriages, not they should be forced to and indeed those who | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
don't want to should be protected from any pressure to do so. Those | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
who want to, should be allowed to. The reason they have changed their | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
mind on that is this - they believe that this is a water-tight | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
guarantee, to guarantee those organisations who don't want to do | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
it from being forced to do it. In other words, if you allow people to | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
opt in, you protect their freedoms - the ones who want to do it. If | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
you write to the legislation you don't want to do it, that protects | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
those who don't want to do it. They say that is the best way of | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
guaranteeing freedoms in both directions. Interestingly, there's | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
been stern reaction to this from the Tory backbenchers. They were | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
not keen on gay marriage as it was. They are incandescent in some parts. | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
One described it as an outrage. Another said that Mr Cameron was | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
catastrophically wrong about that. The Church of England, of course, | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
they say it is divisive about the way the definition of marriage has | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
been changing T Quakers and the Unitarians have wanted this for | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
some time. We will get a bill just before Easter on this and we'll | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
have a vote in the House of Commons in the early part of the summer. | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
The Tory MPs will get a free vote. We expect Labour and the Liberal | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
Democrats to get some whipped vote, in other words to be asked to vote | :13:53. | :13:59. | |
in favour by their party. We should get legislation f it goes through | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
Parliament, by the beginning of 2014 it will become law. | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
manufacturing output fell more sharply than expected in October, | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
raising fears that the economy could shrink again. Output was down | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
1.3% from September. It was the worst fall since June, when output | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
was affected by extra public holidays for the Diamond Jubilee. | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
Tens of thousands of protestors are on the streets of Cairo, continuing | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
to demonstrate against the Egyptian President, Mohamed Morsi, who has | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
given himself sweeping powers. Last night the President called for | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
talks about the growing political crisis. Today, it was rejected by | :14:35. | :14:45. | |
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Egypt is again on the brink. Two men killed in violence earlier this | :14:47. | :14:53. | |
week were buried after Friday prayers. This is from where | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
President Morsi draws his support, the mast, organised ranks of the | :14:58. | :15:04. | |
Muslim Brotherhood. These Brotherhood offices in Cairo were | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
ransacked last night. Local officials too wary to identify | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
themselves accuse their opponents of disregarding the democratic | :15:12. | :15:18. | |
process in which the President was elected six months ago. They come | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
in and damage a building that has nothing to do with them. It kind of | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
tells you, I mean, what we are talking about, not freedom of | :15:27. | :15:34. | |
opinion, freedom of killing, freedom of damaging, what is that? | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
President Morsi has been accused of gravity excessive powers and of | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
trying to push through a new constitution which does not protect | :15:42. | :15:49. | |
the basic rights of others. -- grabbing. Egypt is again hopelessly | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
divided. Almost two years ago, these people marched in their | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
thousands of Tahrir Square, demanding the downfall of an | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
authoritarian regime. Now they are back again, opponents of President | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
Morsi, saying that one tyrant has simply been replaced by another. | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
Hosni Mubarak is long gone, and these liberals, Christians and | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
women fear the new President and his constitution. They say Egypt is | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
heading for disaster. Listen to the people, the people are trying to | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
tell you something. We cannot say that there is another revolution | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
coming. He is totally blind about the truth of what is happening. | :16:31. | :16:38. | |
Worse than Mubarak is how he has been described, a man he regret | :16:38. | :16:45. | |
voting for. I do not like the constitution of my country. It will | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
be written by one party. And what is really bad is that I am starting | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
to believe that the old regime is better. From behind his palace | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
walls, President Morsi has called for a national dialogue tomorrow, | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
but tonight opposition protesters are reported to have broken through | :17:04. | :17:13. | |
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these barricades around the heavily Our top story tonight: The nurse | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
who took the hosts call from Australian DJs about the Duchess of | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
Cambridge has been found dead. -- hoax call. And that extraordinary | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
run-out for the captain, England's cricketers still pile on the runs | :17:27. | :17:33. | |
against India. Coming up in Friday's Sportsday on | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
the BBC News Channel, all the build-up to the Manchester derby, | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
the rivalry is hotter than ever after City beat United to the | :17:41. | :17:51. | |
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Surgeons in Birmingham have saved the life of a five-year-old girl | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
with a rare spinal disorder which meant her body was being slowly | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
crushed. Rosie Davies was born with part of the spine missing and has | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
never been able to walk. But in only the second operation of its | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
kind, a medical team used bone grafts to build the gap and are | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
confident she may be able to walk with the aid of artificial limbs. | :18:12. | :18:21. | |
On the move, Rosie is making a remarkable recovery just two months | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
at the pioneering surgery to stop her body collapsing on itself. | :18:25. | :18:31. | |
There was a cost, amputating her lower legs, but these had never | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
functioned, and the bone was used as part of a unique red hair which | :18:34. | :18:40. | |
has saved her life. -- repair. Before, she was basically a | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
timebomb. We do not know how long we had with there, and since having | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
the operation, she has now had a life expectancy increased to that | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
of a normal child. Before the operation, Rosie's organs were | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
being gradually crushed by the unsupported weight of her upper | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
body. It would eventually have killed her. She was born with five | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
of her vertebrae missing. Doctors had never seen such a large gap | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
before. To bridge the missing section, surgeons used tear | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
amputated lower leg bones, and to permanently lock the repair into | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
place, they inserted these metal struts which were bolted to the | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
vertebrae above and the pelvis below. And the design will allow | :19:26. | :19:33. | |
her to grow. Can we see your legs moving? Doctors at Birmingham | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
Children's Hospital are delighted with their progress, because not | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
only do her organs now have the room to function normally, but her | :19:42. | :19:48. | |
stretch spinal cord has begun to provide a feeling to her upper legs. | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
Before the surgery, she had very little sensation in her upper legs, | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
and immediately after the surgery it was obvious that sensation was | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
getting clearer, she could feel better, she could tell us which leg | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
it was, and now today in testing she has pinpoint precision | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
sensation. And getting feeling in her legs is crucial for rosy for | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
another reason, because it means that in the future she may be able | :20:14. | :20:20. | |
to be fitted with prosthetic limbs. Whether she will be able to walk | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
will not be known for some time. For the moment, her parents and | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
sister are simply delighted that the shadow hanging over her future | :20:28. | :20:37. | |
They are called personal statements and have been described as a way | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
for students to stand out from the crowd when applying for a | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
university place, but one charity wants the system changed because | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
they say state school pupils are put at a disadvantage because their | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
personal statements often appear less impressive than those written | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
by pupils from independent schools. Shia Reeta Chakrabarti. | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
Applying to university is a stressful business. Teenagers need | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
the right grades fell their cause but also personal statements that | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
up to scratch. -- for their cause. The sixth-formers near Manchester | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
understand the pressure all too well, writing an account of why | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
they should win a place can be a challenge. I want them to see that | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
I am an enthusiastic student who really wants what I am going after. | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
It is your one chance to show the weather is reading it and | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
processing the applications why they should be queue and y you are | :21:27. | :21:33. | |
different from everyone else. -- why they should pay queue and y you | :21:33. | :21:43. | |
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One private-school applicants said they were offered a work placement | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
to shadow an ambassador to the United Nations. That is contrasted | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
with a state school applicants saying, I have a part-time job in a | :21:53. | :21:59. | |
local pub. There were more spelling mistakes in the state school | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
applications, and grammatical mistakes. Personal statements are | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
designed to give those applying to university a chance to show their | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
wider skills and interests, but the claim today is that they could be | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
making the system less fair to those from state schools. | :22:15. | :22:21. | |
Universities say they are just one of a range of things they look at. | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
They are going to be looking at A- level results, prior attainment, | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
teachers' references. Some of them carry out tests, some of them carry | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
out interviews. Two-thirds of the privately educated applicants in | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
the study ended up being accepted by a top university, while that was | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
true for just over half of those from state schools and colleges. | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
The charity behind the research wants this part of the system to be | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
reformed. We should have a system that at least tries to be a level | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
playing field, so it should be more about, I think, what you can offer | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
for a degree course, rather than what you have done already. Some | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
say admissions tutors are more than capable of reading between the | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
lines and factoring in social background, but the proportion of | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
state school pupils in top universities remains too low, and | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
while that persists, so will this debate. | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
Cricket, and England have enjoyed another excellent day against India | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
in the third Test. Captain Alastair Cook continued his amazing run of | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
form but was out in bizarre fashion, having looked on course to score a | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
double century. Joe Wilson watched the action. | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
Lunch digest it on the third day in Calcutta, and India still wondering | :23:34. | :23:41. | |
how to get rid of Alastair Cook. Still going strong. Where now? Well | :23:41. | :23:47. | |
into the unknown, or at least the highly unusual. Virat Kohli quite | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
properly through at the stumps when England considered a run. As the | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
throw came in, Alastair Cook was about to ground his bat when he | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
reacted to the ball and left a gap. Run-out, freakishly, for the first | :24:01. | :24:09. | |
time in his first-class career. Still, he had main 190 and shared a | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
partnership of 173 with Jonathan Trott. Now could Kevin Pietersen | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
accelerate? He had a record to catch, Alastair Cook has 23 Test | :24:16. | :24:25. | |
centuries, Pietersen only 22. Out lbw, 54. England were past 500, | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
nearly 200 runs ahead, two days to win the Test, and for India in the | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
morning, more bowling. A private company is offering to | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
fly customers to the money if they can afford the stratospheric price. | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
For �1 billion for two tickets, it claims wealthy individuals, | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
corporations or scientists could land on the Moon by 2020. The | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
announcement comes on the 40th anniversary of NASA's last manned | :24:51. | :25:01. | |
:25:01. | :25:01. | ||
mission to the Moon on Apollo 17. December 1972, and NASA sends | :25:01. | :25:07. | |
Apollo astronauts to the moon for the very last time. No-one has been | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
back since. One giant leap for privately owned commercial | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
enterprise... 40 years on, some former NASA employees have launched | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
a new company. Golden Spike says it will soon be offering commercial | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
flights back to the lunar surface. Our vision is to create a reliable | :25:27. | :25:33. | |
and affordable US-based commercial Schumann lunar transportation | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
system. This is the lunar module that the last man on the Moon used | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
40 years ago, and this is what Golden Spike will hope to take | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
people back with in 2020. The company says it will cost $1.4 | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
billion. It will be open to corporations and wealthy | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
individuals. It will mean that countries like Japan, South Korea | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
and South Africa could carry out research on the lunar surface. 40 | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
years ago, only the vast resources of the United States could send an | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
astronaut to the moon. Now there is no political will nor the money to | :26:08. | :26:15. | |
do it again. According to one of the last men to set foot on the | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
loan, it will be the private sector from now on that will lead the way | :26:18. | :26:25. | |
back. It would be an entrepreneurial effort by private | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
investors, obviously regulated and sanctioned by government, but | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
nevertheless managed by the private sector. I just think government is | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
too inefficient to make those costs come down to the point where it | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
would be economic goal. Some experts think the idea is too | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
ambitious. They do not have the money, they have not picked the | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
hardware, they have not developed the hardware, so I am a little | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
sceptical that, at least on the timescale they are talking about, | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
this can go from an idea to a reality. The splashdown of Apollo | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
17 marked the end of a thrilling year are SpaceX narration, but some | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
believe that there will be another one, taking a new generation back | :27:06. | :27:15. | |
to the moon and even beyond. -- Let's take a look at the weather | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
now with Jay Wynne, is it just getting colder and colder? A you | :27:19. | :27:24. | |
wait for next week, snow is on the way, or it is at least possible. | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
This is the satellite sequence from earlier today, a scattering of | :27:28. | :27:34. | |
showers, but we have seen icy patches developing once again | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
tonight, another cold and frosty night. Still she some showers at | :27:37. | :27:42. | |
the moment which will tend to fade away over the next few hours. -- | :27:42. | :27:47. | |
still some showers. The nagging wind eases down, but there is a | :27:47. | :27:51. | |
weather system in Scotland bringing a risk of snow over the hills, may | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
be some freezing rain at lower levels. Temperatures down to | :27:54. | :27:59. | |
freezing or just below for the vast majority. Tomorrow, the bulk of the | :27:59. | :28:02. | |
day will see a North-South split, more cloud in the north of the UK, | :28:03. | :28:07. | |
a breeze and patchy rain. Further south, it is going to be a lovely | :28:07. | :28:12. | |
day. Sunny spells and scattered showers, not scattered showers, | :28:12. | :28:18. | |
much lighter winds than we have seen of late! Brighter weather and | :28:18. | :28:23. | |
might a winds. North Wales, the odd spot of rain and a similar sort of | :28:23. | :28:29. | |
idea in Northern Ireland. Bright and a bit of a breeze developing | :28:29. | :28:33. | |
here. Breezy in the West of Scotland, quite a great day with a | :28:33. | :28:38. | |
bit of rain, but eastern Scotland faring that bit better, bright and | :28:38. | :28:42. | |
breezy. A similar spread across northern England, with the best of | :28:42. | :28:47. | |
the brightness to the west of the Pennines. Sunday is windier for all | :28:47. | :28:51. | |
parts, a lot of cloud around, some rain slipping into Northern Ireland | :28:51. | :28:54. | |
and northern England. Behind that, it brightens up, but a cold wind | :28:54. | :28:59. | |
coming down from the north, and we will keep that into the early part | :28:59. | :29:02. | |
of next week, just turning into a north-easterly breeze, really cold | :29:03. | :29:07. | |
air from the near Continent, and as that comes our way on Monday and | :29:07. | :29:13. |