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Yet another high street casualty - HMV the latest company in financial | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
trouble. More than 4,500 workers face an uncertain future, but its | :00:12. | :00:19. | |
boss says he's hopeful there'll be a rescue. I came here four months | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
ago not to close the business down but to drive a viable future. A | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
secure future for our team, for our stores, and for our customers. | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
It's been in business for more than 90 years, but we just don't buy | :00:30. | :00:36. | |
music the way we used to. No one buys goes into shops to buy CDs | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
anymore, that time is gone. Also on tonight's programme: | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
Religion in the workplace - a BA employee wins a landmark ruling on | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
wearing her cross at the office. For the first time some women with | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
a family history of breast cancer could be given drugs on the NHS to | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
prevent the disease. The shocking trade in ivory that's | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
driving the African elephant to extinction - secret filming on the | :00:59. | :01:07. | |
trail of the smugglers. A dream come true for Gordon Strachan - | :01:07. | :01:17. | |
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he's appointed Scotland manager Good evening, welcome to the BBC | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
News at six. It's been a fixture on the high street for more than 90 | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
years, but now the music and DVD retailer HMV is going into | :01:48. | :01:56. | |
administration. Its boss says the company still has a future. If he's | :01:56. | :02:03. | |
wrong, up to 4,500 employees could lose their jobs. Its 200-plus | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
stores are still trading though customers who have gift cards and | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
vouchers will find they are now worthless. Let's join Emma Simpson | :02:10. | :02:19. | |
in London's Oxford Street. You join me at the flagship store, and | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
tonight you can maybe see the signs for the sales still on. | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
Unfortunately HMV had a disappointing Christmas and that | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
hastened the collapse of this iconic chain, which has been | :02:32. | :02:39. | |
grappling with heavy debts and flagging sales, and after nearly a | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
century of trading the administrators and now in charge. | :02:43. | :02:50. | |
HMV, the title came from this old painting. This dog became part of | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
the logo, familiar to generations. He is still here but his master has | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
lost its voice. This much loved Jane has finally run out of time | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
and money. No one goes into the music shop to buy CDs any more, | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
that time is gone. It is sad, it was a prestige company when I was a | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
child. HMV has come a long way since these days, when Beetle mania | :03:17. | :03:27. | |
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was taking off. It later started to expand at -- and was at one time | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
worth �1 billion but it failed to adapt to the digital revolution. As | :03:33. | :03:40. | |
little as 10 years ago, online counted for as little as 6.5% of | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
sales, now it is more than 70% and rising. Some believe this bricks- | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
and-mortar based for business is no longer viable but the boss told me | :03:50. | :03:57. | |
he believes HMV can survive with fewer stores. I came here not to | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
close the business down but to drive a viable and secure Future | :04:00. | :04:08. | |
for our team and our customers. I believe in that future. A buyer is | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
needed. They are hard to come by right now, but suppliers are keen | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
for HMV to stay afloat. The only real outlet left for these CDs and | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
DVDs. Customers see more angry about gift vouchers they can no | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
longer use. They are not accepting these cards any more so it is a | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
gift that is useless. Now they don't want to give you the goods | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
and that is despicable. He if they are still trading and people have | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
paid good money for the vouchers, I don't see why they can't redeem | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
them. HMV said they stopped selling vouchers the moment they thought | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
they were insolvent. Today workers at Jessops posted messages in the | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
window looking for work. This entire chain has collapsed and | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
closed, and the demise of HMV could be an even greater blow. This could | :05:05. | :05:12. | |
be the final straw for many high- street shops. We have got to come | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
together to work out what can be done with those stores. The stores | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
are continuing to trade, but the clock is ticking to try to rescue | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
this household name. The administrators were formally | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
appointed just before we came on the air, and I understand they have | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
already received expressions of interest from several private- | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
equity companies. That is a hopeful sign but we will have to see what | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
happens. Even if there is a possible deal, this is | :05:45. | :05:55. | |
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fundamentally a retailer that has weighed too many stores. | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
-- way too many. In a landmark legal case, a British Airways | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
employee has won her long battle over religious discrimination at | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
work. Although BA has since changed its policy, six years ago Nadia | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
Eweida was sent home for wearing a small silver cross around her neck. | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
Today the European Court of Human Rights upheld her case but | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
dismissed three other cases which also raised the question of | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
religious rights in the workplace. Our Religious Affairs Correspondent, | :06:15. | :06:23. | |
Robert Pigott reports. This was the day an airline check-in clerk took | :06:23. | :06:29. | |
her fight to Europe's highest court and won. Nadia Eweida's victory | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
confirms that wearing her cross is a legitimate way of expressing | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
Christian beliefs. Her case was special - the court said her cross | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
was too discreet to spoil the corporate image of British Airways. | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
She said this judgment sent a signal to employers. It means | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
Christians can move around more freely without recrimination in | :06:50. | :06:57. | |
their workplace. Three other Christians lost their cases. Surely | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
Chaplin, a nurse from Exeter, was told by her employers her across | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
was unhygienic. Million Nadal, a council worker, lost her job when | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
she refused to register civil partnerships. Gary McFarlane was | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
sacked when he refused to Council gay couples about their | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
relationships. At the implication is that a lot of Christians will | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
remain hidden, remain unable to exercise the minimum expressions of | :07:27. | :07:33. | |
their faith because of the intimidation effect. A legal | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
experts say the judgment gives discretion to employers to override | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
the religious concerns of staff. A if I have a concern it will affect | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
health and safety, if it will affect my ability to provide a | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
service in a non discriminatory fashion, I can limit the right of | :07:51. | :07:58. | |
an employee to manifest their religious belief in that way. | :07:58. | :08:06. | |
sets a legal seal on years of people trying unsuccessfully to | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
defend their values against secular ones. It confirms that although | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
people are entitled to hold religious beliefs, they will not be | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
able to infringe the rights of other people in the workplace. | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
Secularists claim this will stop religious views being given special | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
privileges. We are delighted that they haven't resulted in the | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
creation of a hierarchy of religious rites, with religion at | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
the top and gay people potentially badly affected. For decades, the | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
influence of Christian teaching on British culture and law has been | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
waning. Today the European Court of Human Rights left a milestone on | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
the road to a secular society. Women with a family history of | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
breast cancer could be offered drugs on the NHS to help prevent | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
the disease. The health regulator, NICE, has launched a consultation | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
on whether the drug - Tamoxifen - could be given to women in England | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
and Wales for up to five years. A leading breast cancer charity has | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
called it an historic step. Our health correspondent Branwen | :09:07. | :09:17. | |
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Jeffreys has more. Breast cancer cells, what makes them grow in one | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
person and not another? There is a growing understanding of how this | :09:22. | :09:28. | |
cancer works. Now in some women drugs could be used to prevent it | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
developing. This woman has been writing on the internet about her | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
experience. She found out she had a faulty gene putting her at high | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
risk of breast cancer, so high that she had a double mastectomy, but | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
her surgeon held out hope that when her daughter grows up there may be | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
other options. I was fretting at the time about my daughter, who was | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
very young at the time, and he actually said to me let's | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
concentrate on you, let's sort you out, and your daughter will | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
probably simply just take a pill which will negate her risk. A for | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
women at the highest risk, the best treatment will probably still be | :10:08. | :10:15. | |
surgery for now but for some the NHS might start using drugs to | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
prevent cancer developing. How is breast cancer risk measured? Woman | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
with a strong family history, one or more cases of the cancer in | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
their close relatives, can speak to their doctor. The GP will send them | :10:29. | :10:36. | |
for screening or genetic testing. Around 3% of women over 30 are at | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
higher risk of breast cancer. Tamoxifen is already used to treat | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
breast cancer. Now research shows that it can also help prevent it, | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
but there are side-effects so the benefits only outweigh the risks | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
for women who are in high risk group. Whether to take these drugs | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
will be a highly personal decision, one most people will make with the | :10:59. | :11:06. | |
doctor. The cancer specialist, this is the new frontier for helping | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
people at risk of cancer. For it is fantastic of the can start | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
preventing a lot of cancers that we typically see, it is good for us | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
and the patients and hopefully we will lead healthier and longer | :11:19. | :11:28. | |
lives. Most women will still rely on screening once they are over 50. | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
We are seeing the first steps towards it being prevented. | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
Cost of living increases have remained unchanged for the third | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
month in a row, according to the Office for National Statistics. | :11:36. | :11:43. | |
Inflation, measured by the Consumer Prices Index, has stayed at 2.7%. | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
It has been above the Bank of England's 2% target since November | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
2009. The United Nations Security Council | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
has given strong backing to France's military intervention in | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
the west African country of Mali, where the government is fighting | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
Islamist rebels. French officials say they are planning to increase | :12:01. | :12:07. | |
troop numbers from 750 to 2,500. Britain has sent transport aircraft | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
to support the operation. Minimum starting salaries for | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
police officers in England and Wales are to be cut by �4,000 after | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
the Home Secretary approved a package of controversial changes | :12:19. | :12:28. | |
today. From April new recruits will start on �19,000. Our Home Affairs | :12:28. | :12:37. | |
correspondent Tom Symonds reports. The job, serving the public | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
whatever the weather. As officers dealing with the snow in Norwich | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
will testify. Being a police officer can be unpredictable and | :12:46. | :12:56. | |
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risky, which is why changing their pay is contradictory. The basic | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
recruitment salary is higher than for instance for an army officer | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
cadet. It is higher than a prison officer, and the fact that those | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
who gain skills they will want to have to make themselves more | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
effective as police officers, that will get them up the pay scale | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
faster than ever before. The Police Federation is disappointed. Members | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
of the public expect a decent service from their officers and | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
they are not going to make any distinction between an officer that | :13:34. | :13:40. | |
has just been joined being paid �19,000 a year, or and Officer with | :13:40. | :13:47. | |
more experience being paid more. headline cut to police salaries | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
runs the risk of creating the impression this is a low-paid | :13:50. | :13:57. | |
profession, but the truth is that all forces are cutting staff, | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
recruiting fewer staff, they can pick and choose. Most people | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
getting into policing are mature, they have served as special | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
constables, and under these proposals they will start under a | :14:09. | :14:15. | |
higher rate of pay and reach the top of the scale more quickly. | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
argument over what a senior government figure said to police in | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
Downing Street rumbles on and the Police Federation says morale is | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
pretty low, so is now the time to change pay and conditions? The | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
government says it has to be. Because even though cuts to the | :14:31. | :14:41. | |
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police might upset voters, savings needed to be made. Proposals on | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
redundancy are still being discussed. | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
Nine men have gone on trial at the Old Bailey accused of the sexual | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
exploitation of young girls in Oxford. The men deny 51 counts | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
including rape, trafficking and organising prostitution between | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
2004 and last year. Our Social Affairs correspondent Alison Holt | :14:54. | :15:04. | |
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Oxford is best known for its dreaming spires and academic | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
achievement but today's case centres on a brutal hidden world | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
where it's claimed girls a young as 11 were sexually exploited by a | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
group of local men. The court has been told they targeted vulnerable | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
girls whose lives were out of control, often focusing on | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
children's homes. The nine men were arrested last year as part of a | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
major police operation. They're accused of abusing six girls over | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
nearly seven years. They face a total of 51 charges, seven seven | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
counts of raping a child under 13, five of facilitating child | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
prostitution and four counts of trafficking within the UK for the | :15:41. | :15:48. | |
purposes of sexual exploitation. In this guesthouse, a hotel, and | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
private homes in Oxford, it's alleged men from as far afield as | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
Leeds, Bradford and London would pay for sex with the girls. The | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
court was told the men were introduced as friends, brothers or | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
custody -- cousins. Prosecuting the jury was told it was a lifestyle | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
described by one of the complainants as a living hell from | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
which they could not extra indicate themselves. | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
The court here heard claims that the men groomed the girls, first | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
giving them gifts and attention, then drugs and alcohol. Finally, | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
it's alleged they used extreme violence to control them, including | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
threatening to kill one of the girls. | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
It was claimed the accused felt it was unlikely these vulnerable girls | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
would be believed. The nine men deny all of the charges and the | :16:34. | :16:41. | |
case is expected to last for at least eight weeks. | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
Our top story tonight: The high street retailer HMV is | :16:44. | :16:51. | |
going into administration - 4,500 staff face losing their jobs. | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
Coming up: Drug addiction is an illness like any other - the police | :16:56. | :17:06. | |
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chief who's calling for a radical change in strategy. | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
Later in business on the news channel: Burberry is one retail | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
thaers doing well. Sales rose in the last quarter of last year and | :17:15. | :17:25. | |
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we will look at inflation, why it The future of the African elephant | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
could be at risk because of soaring demand for ivory and a surge in | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
poaching. Despite an international ban on the trade in ivory - that's | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
been in place since 1990 - around 25,000 elephants were killed in | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
2011. Campaigners blame China, where growing prosperity is | :17:43. | :17:49. | |
creating a market for ivory - seen as a status symbol. Gabriel | :17:49. | :17:59. | |
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Gatehouse's report has some distressing images from the start. | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
The elephants' final moments are traced in blood. Blackened under | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
the scorching Kenyan sun. By the time we came upon their rotting | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
carcasses, the animals had been dead for several days. | :18:14. | :18:21. | |
The poachers had gunned them down with rifles. The rangers say they | :18:21. | :18:27. | |
haven't seen this level of mass slaughter since the 1980s. Nine | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
elephants here killed in one day. Indeed, across Africa the numbers | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
of elephants being poached is at its highest for two decades. This | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
kind of mass killing is the direct result of a huge increase in price | :18:42. | :18:49. | |
and of demand for ivory. The illegal ivory trade is a | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
globalised business. It's being fuelled by rising prosperity in | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
east Asia, especially in China where ivory is highly prized. In | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
Nigeria, as elsewhere in Africa, business and investment | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
opportunities have attracted Chinese people in their hundreds of | :19:05. | :19:11. | |
thousands. According to a new study, that fact has helped turn Lagos | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
into the largest retail centre for illegal ivory on the continent. | :19:15. | :19:21. | |
There's ivory moving from East Africa, from Kenya, into Nigeria, | :19:21. | :19:28. | |
Nigerians are exporting tus bgs to -- tusks to China. Ivory coming in, | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
going out. Ivory being made. At one of the main markets in Lagos | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
we went to see for ourselves. are all ivories. Wearing a hidden | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
camera, a colleague from the BBC's Chinese Service is immediately | :19:43. | :19:50. | |
approached by a number of ivory traders. I give you up to 100 kilos. | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
One man offers to supply him with tusks and carved ivory in bulk, to | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
be smuggled back to China. In Kenya, they take their anti-poaching | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
efforts seriously. Wildlife rangers are armed, it's a dangerous job. | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
Nervous elephants can charge the very men whose job it is to protect | :20:11. | :20:17. | |
them. And if they encounter poachers, they say, it's a question | :20:17. | :20:26. | |
of shoot or get shot. A poacher, you just kill. It's only way to | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
protect animals. You have to kill the poachers. But despite such | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
drastic measures elephants are being killed in record numbers. In | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
Kenya, conservationists are warning at the present rate these majestic | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
animals could disappear from the wild altogether within 15 years. In | :20:43. | :20:50. | |
a country, indeed a continent, where tkpwurpbs are plenty -- guns | :20:50. | :20:59. | |
are plentiful, the rewards of poaching outweigh the risks. | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
The investment bank Goldman Sachs is no longer considering the idea | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
of delaying bonuses so staff could take advantage of the lower top | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
rate of tax that's due in April. This morning, the Governor of the | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
Bank of England, Sir Mervyn King, condemned any suggestion of bankers | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
using the tax system in this way. Our chief economics correspondent, | :21:14. | :21:21. | |
Hugh Pym, is here. It would be a columnies, rather sort of lacking | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
in care and attention to have how other people might react. In the | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
long run, financial institutions like all large institutions do | :21:30. | :21:37. | |
depend on goodwill from the rest of society. Our chief economics | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
correspondent, Hugh Pym, is here. That's code for being angry, isn't | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
it? Indeed. It was a couple of hours later that Goldmans indicated | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
it was no longer considering this idea of delaying bonus payouts to | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
the next tax year when the rate will have fallen. It said it was | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
coincidence and senior management were meeting this morning to | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
discuss it. But it has emerged that last night the Treasury got in | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
touch with Goldmans to say it was concerned about these reports and a | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
phone conversation was set up between the Treasury Minister and | :22:08. | :22:14. | |
Goldmans chiefs, that didn't happen until after Goldmans made its | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
decision. Are there other banks out there still considering this idea? | :22:18. | :22:25. | |
I suspect rather less so after today's events. Thank you. | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
A police chief has told the BBC that the Government's drugs | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
strategy in England and Wales isn't working because there is too much | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
emphasis on criminal prosecutions. He says Government responsibility | :22:33. | :22:39. | |
for the strategy should be moved from the Home Office to Health. Our | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
home editor has this exclusive report. | :22:42. | :22:49. | |
A drugs raid on Humberside. Police burst in to find suspects well | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
known to them, one had been released from cells that morning. | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
Seeing addicts trapped in in what's described as the revolving door of | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
law enforcement has led the local Chief Constable to conclude the | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
Home Office should no longer be in charge of the Government's drugs | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
strategy in England and Wales. I have been involved in enforcement | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
now for over 35 years and put bluntly, enforcement alone is not | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
the solution. You sound critical of what the Home Office have been | :23:15. | :23:21. | |
doing. The law enforcement position and narrative, rather than being | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
willing to look at more innovative, greater range of solutions to long- | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
term problems. His argument is not for decriminalisation, but the | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
Chief Constable, who is also the spokesman on drugs for chief police | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
officers, thinks the Department of Health should take responsibility | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
for the strategy. Carl has been in and out of jail | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
for drug offences for years. But after medical help is now clean. | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
Treating addicts as criminals, he says, simply perpetuates the | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
problem. I'd rather say send them to a doctor because locking them up | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
and throwing away the key, that's not going to get you nowhere, to be | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
honest. In a report out today, the British Medical Association agrees, | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
saying doctors should have much more of a say in framing national | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
drug policy. Drug addicts are seen as criminals. That puts them off | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
from seeking medical help. I think that's a great pity, because first | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
and foremost the drug addict should be seen as a patient, certainly by | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
the medical profession, and they need our help. Treating illicit | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
drug use as a health issue was the official policy for most of the | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
20th century. Indeed, it was known internationally as the British | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
system. But the Home Office is adamant we shouldn't go back to | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
that. They say the current policy is working and the number of people | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
using drugs is falling, and the number of people in treatment and | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
coming off drugs is rising. idea that drugs policy should go to | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
the Department of Health is a complete nonsense. It's a law and | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
order issue. The reason being that the Government does have a | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
responsibility to protect people, particularly children. A committee | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
of MPs recently recommended responsibility for drugs policy be | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
shared between health and the Home Office. The Government lookss | :25:06. | :25:16. | |
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unlikely to agree. The former Celtic boss Gordon | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
Strachan has been confirmed as the new Scotland football manager. The | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
55-year-old was favourite to take over from Craig Levein who left in | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
November after a poor start to Scotland's World Cup qualifiying | :25:25. | :25:32. | |
campaign. Lorna Gordon has the details. This report contains some | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
flash photography. He has a formidable task, to get the | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
national side, bottom of its qualifying group for the World Cup, | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
back to winning ways. Every club there's always challenges but this | :25:41. | :25:47. | |
is the first time the challenge is on behalf of a nation. Also, the | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
rewards to that are that if you can be successful you make a nation | :25:51. | :25:57. | |
happy. His track record in Scotland will stand him in good stead. He | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
guided Celtic to three SPL titles in a row. As a player, he won 50 | :26:02. | :26:09. | |
caps for his country. Competing in two World Cups. He will be | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
Scotland's 6th manager in a decade. The team hasn't qualified for the | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
World Cup since 1998. They've only qualified twice for the European | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
Championships. Clearly, there's a lot of work to be done. Wye argue | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
him sure he would argue, as well, there are decent players there, | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
probably enough there to get you competitive to get to the | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
championships like the Euros and the World Cup. But it's going to be | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
a tough run for him. In the shadow of Scotland's national stadium, | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
people were pleased. Great news. Thrilled to bits. Couldn't be a | :26:39. | :26:45. | |
better person. I have always quite liked the wee man. So, Wye give him | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
-- I would give him my support. has long been the fans' choice to | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
become Scotland manager. He faces a difficult challenge ahead, though, | :26:54. | :27:00. | |
and he does admit that. His first priority - qualifying for the World | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
Cup. He says he will give it a go. That may well prove impossible. | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
Gordon Strachan's first test a little more gentle, a friendly | :27:10. | :27:20. | |
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against Estonia next month. Snow's caused disruption for a | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
second day in some parts of the country. Schools have been closed | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
across Norfolk and Norwich Airport was shut. The East Midlands and | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
Yorkshire also saw more snow today, and many roads across Aberdeenshire | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
have been described as hazardous. Forecasters are warning of more | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
snow later this week. I suspect Matt will confirm that | :27:35. | :27:41. | |
It's starting to look that way, George. The showers that hit | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
Norfolk today may have caused disruption but between them a | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
picture perfect scene there. It's the areas where snow is lying at | :27:48. | :27:53. | |
the moment, tonight frost will be at its most harsh. Still snow | :27:53. | :27:59. | |
showers across East Anglia and eastern Kent. Increasing cloud and | :27:59. | :28:04. | |
patchy rain across the far west. For most of us away from mist and | :28:04. | :28:14. | |
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fog across central and eastern England it will be clear and very | :28:14. | :28:16. | |
cold. Temperatures well below freezing and where the snow is | :28:16. | :28:18. | |
lying as low as minus ten to start tomorrow morning. | :28:18. | :28:21. | |
That opens up big contrasts. Clear and frosty to the east and more | :28:21. | :28:24. | |
cloud and frost-free in the west as it will be in Northern Ireland. | :28:24. | :28:27. | |
Could even be patchy rain on the western fringes. Sunshine across | :28:27. | :28:31. | |
western areas to start Wednesday morning. Clearer further east. But | :28:31. | :28:34. | |
the cloud could be thick enough across the Far East of Cornwall to | :28:34. | :28:38. | |
produce patchy rain or drizzle. With lighter winds further east a | :28:38. | :28:41. | |
lot of mist and low cloud and dense fog across parts of the East | :28:41. | :28:51. | |
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Midlands and Lincolnshire and East We see a few sleet and snow showers | :28:56. | :29:00. | |
push to parts of Devon as well. Turning wet across Northern Ireland | :29:00. | :29:02. | |
and western Scotland. Elsewhere, where you have cleared mist and fog | :29:02. | :29:07. | |
a bright day, but a cold one. Many only just again struggling to get | :29:07. | :29:10. | |
above freezing. Another cold night across eastern areas into Thursday. | :29:10. | :29:14. | |
Isolated snow showers here. More cloud in the west with light rain | :29:14. | :29:19. | |
and patchy snow. Then it gets interesting into Friday, this | :29:19. | :29:22. |