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population grew by more than any other country in Europe. 800,000 | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
babies were born last year. That's the highest number in the last 40 | :00:16. | :00:24. | |
years. In the short-term, has affected housing, transport, | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
services, like education and health. We will be looking at the reasons | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
for this baby boom. An acid attack on two teenage girls doing charity | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
work in Zanzibar. They've been flown to the capital for medical | :00:38. | :00:45. | |
treatment. David Cameron... For struggling AMD departments, but | :00:45. | :00:51. | |
doctors say it is papering over the cracks. A month ago, Jeeni was | :00:51. | :00:57. | |
enslaved, working off her father's debt in Pakistan. Today, after the | :00:57. | :01:04. | |
BBC's report, she can be a child again. In sport, the ICC say that | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
Hot Spot will be used for the remaining Ashes test, despite being | :01:08. | :01:18. | |
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dogged by controversy so far this middle of a baby boom, with the | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
highest number of boats for 40 years. New figures show that more | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
than 800,000 babies were born last year. It means the UK population | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
grew by more than any other country in you rub. We have been looking at | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
the reasons for our growing population, and the strain it might | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
put on services. A baby, it seems, is the must have item these days, as | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
Britain experiences a baby-boom, the like of which we haven't seen since | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
you doubt what Stewart was top of the charts in 1972. In the 12 months | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
to June last year, more than 800,000 were delivered. It is not one born | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
every minute now, it's one and a half. All of those babies have | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
helped push the population up by almost 420,000 in just one year. | :02:20. | :02:27. | |
There are now 63.7 million people in Britain, thanks to a quarter of a | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
million more birds than deaths and 166,000 in net migration. So what do | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
some of the crowds of new mums think is inspiring the baby-boom? After | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
she came, all you see are mothers and kids. It is booming with babies. | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
I see loads of babies around and the playgroups are full, you already | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
have to worry about them now. There's lots to think about. It is | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
now big business, pregnancy shops, baby shops and kiddie shops. Before | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
we just have restaurants and pubs. Immigration has increased the number | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
of women of child-bearing age. But it's thought an increasing trend | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
towards larger families and women having children later are more | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
significant factors. Whatever it is, the rise is seen as worrying by | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
some. We want the government to say this growth in population isn't | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
helpful, that we'd like people to have smaller families. Sure, | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
migration is part of it, but people should be thinking about having one | :03:27. | :03:37. | |
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or two children, not three or four. Another factor in the population | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
increases people living longer. Today's figures reveal that the | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
number of men over 75 in the UK has risen an astonishing 25% each | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
decade. A number of EU nations are actually worried by their low birth | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
rates, and some economists suggest there are advantages in having more | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
children. Medium to long-term economic benefits are substantial. | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
People who are being born now or the immigrants coming here now, will | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
help pay for our pensions and public services in the future. The hope is | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
that today's numbers will act as an early warning system to planners. So | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
whether by Royal appointment or not, as the new baby boomers grow up, the | :04:14. | :04:20. | |
nurseries and the schools will be ready for them. We know there is a | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
baby-boom. What I'm interested in is why our figures are so different to | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
the rest of Europe. Part of it is immigration, we saw substantial | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
immigration to this country over the last 12 years, it does push up the | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
number of women of child-bearing age. We also seem to have women | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
having babies later, into their late 30s and 40s. So the period over | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
which they tend to have babies as longer. But the key thing is that in | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
this country we tend to have bigger families than elsewhere in Europe. | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
Far more people have three children in the UK than elsewhere in the EU. | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
So there's something cultural there. I don't know what it is, but at the | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
moment it seems that people think perhaps it's what you do. You have | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
more than two kids. Two young British women have been attacked | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
with acid on the East African island of Zanzibar. Case Dick -- DGN | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
Kirstie Trup were volunteering for a charity. They have been treated on | :05:22. | :05:30. | |
mainland Tanzania, but they are due to fly home tonight. This was the | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
emergency operation to take the two injured women of Zanzibar island and | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
into hospital on mainland Tanzania. Both girls had been splashed by | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
acid. One was more seriously injured. Both in pain and shock, | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
after the sudden and vicious attack. British consular staff | :05:48. | :05:55. | |
helped them get from hospital in the island's capital. Katie Gee and | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
Kirstie Trup are both 18. They were two weeks into a three-week trip, | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
working as volunteers for a charity in Tanzania. They booked through a | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
big UK travel company. Stone town is a major tourist destination. Tens of | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
thousands of Britons come here every year. But the Foreign Office does | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
one violent and armed crime is increasing. The girls were walking | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
up this area of Stone town when suddenly two men on mopeds stopped | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
and flung acid into their faces before speeding away. People rushed | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
to help as they heard them screaming. It all happened so fast. | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
The police still don't know why they were targeted. Zanzibar is a | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
majority Muslim island. There have been tensions in the past between | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
locals and tourists, for not dressing appropriately or covering | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
up. But there's no indication that this was religiously motivated. It | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
was said they were appropriately dressed. The girls who were working | :06:53. | :07:00. | |
for your aid agency, they were aware? Yes, they were dressed | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
appropriately. The girls are being treated for burns to their face, | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
chest, arms and stomach. Their injuries are not life-threatening | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
and they were said to be in good spirits, despite the vicious attack. | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
Consular staff were helping to arrange an emergency medical | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
evacuation flight to get them back to Britain, where their mums gave a | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
joint statement, read by a family friend. Both families are extremely | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
upset and distressed that this completely unprovoked attack on | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
their lovely daughters, who had only gone to Zanzibar with good | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
intentions. We understand that they will be flying home overnight. We | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
appreciate all the interest and support we have received from the | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
media, but we would ask that we are left alone until we've been reunited | :07:43. | :07:53. | |
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with our daughters. The authorities here say nothing like this has ever | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
happened before, and police are still tracking the two men and | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
investigating what might have been behind this vicious and unexpected | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
attacks. UK border staff in France have been criticised for not taking | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
the fingerprints of thousands of people caught trying to enter | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
Britain illegally. The chief Inspector of Borders and immigration | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
said records should be kept in case the same people later claimed asylum | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
in the UK. He also said people smugglers were not being fined | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
heavily enough. Ministers have agreed to review the issue. Several | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
companies and charities say there. Advertising on the website Ask.fm, | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
after the death of a teenager who was bullied online. 14-year-old | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
Hannah Smith was found hanged at home in Leicestershire last week. | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
The Prime Minister has urged people to boycott social media sites which | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
fail to respond to concerns about bullying. Reeta Chakrabarti is with | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
me now. Who are these advertisers that have pulled out? They have been | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
pulling out during the course of the afternoon. They include names like | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
Spec Savers, Vodafone, Laura Ashley, Save the Children, the sun | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
newspaper, BT and eBay. A couple of the companies have said they didn't | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
know they had adverts on this website, they were sold this | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
advertising space as part of a wider package by other agencies. | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
Nonetheless, they've moved fast to get out of the website this | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
afternoon. The pressure has been growing on Ask.fm, so much so that | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
this afternoon the founders of the website actually put out a long, | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
open letter, saying that they defended their website, they don't | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
condone bullying. They say that users can report any abuse, and they | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
say users can elect not to have anonymous contact with other | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
people, because anonymity has been one of the key reasons this website | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
has been criticised. David Cameron said today that he felt that users | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
needed to be protected, and that users should boycott websites where | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
they are not properly protected. The trouble with that is, as one expert | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
said to me, young people live their social lives online as much as they | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
do offer it. How realistic is it to expect them to boycott a website? | :09:59. | :10:06. | |
The issue was more about regulation. The NHS is to get an extra �500 | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
million to help bail out struggling accident and emergency departments | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
in England. The government says the money will be spent over the next | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
two years. The British Medical Association, which represents | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
doctors, says the bailout is merely -- is merely papering over the | :10:20. | :10:26. | |
cracks. Accident and emergency departments across the UK have been | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
getting busier. Over the winter, waiting times in English hospitals | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
increased. Leading to warnings from doctors, hospital managers and MPs | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
that emergency care was facing a crisis. Now the Prime Minister is | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
offering hospitals financial help to avoid similar problems this winter. | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
We need to make sure that GPs surgeries work more closely with | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
hospitals. We need to make sure that the frail and elderly better cared | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
for in our communities, rather than going in and out of accident and | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
emergency departments. government is offering �500 million | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
to be spread over two years, which comes from savings already achieved | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
in the NHS. But it represents less than half of 1% of the �110 billion | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
budget for the NHS in England. It is likely to be shared between 25 to 50 | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
hospitals which have faced the biggest problems in A&E. At Salford | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
Royal they are trying to relieve pressure on the busy emergency | :11:26. | :11:32. | |
department. This is known as deflection will stop a nurse | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
assessing patients to make sure they really need to be admitted. If they | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
don't, they are offered advice and could even have an urgent | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
appointment booked with their local GP. Accident and emergency | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
departments across England have seen more patients walking through the | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
door. But at the same time, there's been a real problem recruiting | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
doctors and nurses to come and work in this intensely pressurised | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
speciality. Not all doctors are convinced that the money today will | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
make a real difference to the root causes of the problems. Doctor | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
Clifford man, standing by to receive casualties from a motorway | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
accident, knows all about the pressures of working in A&E. The | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
Health Select Committee recently said just 17% of emergency | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
departments were fully staffed. The doctor says that won't change with | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
today's announcement. We welcome the money but it doesn't address the | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
root cause of the problem in A&E department, which is a lack of | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
senior decision-makers. But experts warn there are also problems with | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
the ability of hospitals to discharge people back into their | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
communities. When you can't do that they start backing up, and that's | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
where you see the problems in the A&E department. It isn't necessary | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
where the source of the problem is. A review of emergency care is | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
looking at longer-term solutions, but winter pressures will soon start | :12:57. | :13:04. | |
to build again. Britain is in the middle of a baby boom. Latest | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
figures show the population grew by more than any other country in | :13:07. | :13:13. | |
Europe. Still to come... Too much on show? Why the Co-op won't be | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
stacking some lads magazines anymore. In Sportsday, Rickie | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
Lambert is the surprise name in the England squad to face Scotland up | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
when you next week. A Southampton striker could make his international | :13:26. | :13:36. | |
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ten-year-old Pakistani girl who worked for 15 hours a day, virtually | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
a slave, paying off her father's deaths. The name is Jeeni and she is | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
not alone. A leading NGO said there are 12 million child labourers | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
working in Pakistan last year. It believes 25 million children and | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
teenagers are not in school. But as for Jeeni, her life may be about to | :14:02. | :14:12. | |
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change. Deep in the cotton fields, Jeeni is at work, a child | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
shouldering the burdens of adults. But if looks like hard Labour, | :14:22. | :14:32. | |
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remember what she left behind. This brick kiln was her home and | :14:33. | :14:39. | |
effectively, her prison. She and her entire family toiled here. They were | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
bonded labourers, enslaved by debt. But after we featured her story, | :14:44. | :14:52. | |
that debt was suddenly forgiven. We were taken to see the small room | :14:52. | :14:58. | |
Jeeni shared with 14 family members. This campaign from the | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
Child rights group, SPARC, said she would have been liable for her | :15:02. | :15:08. | |
parents' debt. She would have had to work for her entire life to pay off | :15:09. | :15:15. | |
this loan but she would not pay alone like that in her whole life. | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
The owner of the kiln claims he treats his work as well although | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
bonded Labour is illegal. He said Jeeni's father owed him almost | :15:26. | :15:34. | |
$8,000 which he wrote off out of compassion. TRANSLATION: After the | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
BBC report, campaigners said to me and I said I have forgiven the | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
debt, now they are free. I have children as well. I'd took pity on | :15:41. | :15:50. | |
Bears. How are you? For Jeeni and her family, this new-found freedom | :15:50. | :15:57. | |
means the chance of a better life. Still poor but no longer trapped. | :15:57. | :16:04. | |
Her father says with what they earn picking cotton, he hopes to send | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
Jeeni and her brothers to school. She is hoping for that as well and | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
tells me she likes it here working the land. There we spent all day in | :16:15. | :16:21. | |
the mud making bricks, she says. Now we work for only four hours a day. | :16:21. | :16:29. | |
We are better off here. This is another advantage of their | :16:29. | :16:36. | |
new location. For Jeeni, life certainly looks a lot different. | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
Here, at least for a time, she can set work aside and simply be a | :16:41. | :16:47. | |
child. But the biggest change is she can look forward to taking her place | :16:47. | :16:53. | |
in the classroom, having a chance to learn and that is something which | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
seemed impossible before. Millions of children in Pakistan never get to | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
school. But for Jeeni and her siblings, a new future might be | :17:00. | :17:10. | |
written. A Mafia boss who has been on the run | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
for nearly two decades has been arrested in London. Domenico | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
Rancadore, who is 64, and wanted by the Italian authorities, was | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
arrested at home in Uxbridge. The co-operative has confirmed it | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
will no longer sell Nuts magazine from early next month. It comes | :17:27. | :17:33. | |
after the title's rubbish rejected an ultimatum to use modesty barracks | :17:33. | :17:39. | |
or be removed from the shelves. -- modesty barracks. They are known | :17:39. | :17:47. | |
as lads mags and in the Co-op, they're often sexually charged | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
covers are hidden behind modesty boards. But now the Co-op wants to | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
go further and put them in sealed bags. This is about responding to | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
the needs of our customers. response from one of those magazines | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
was simple. To Co-op we are saying we're not going to put our magazine | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
in modesty barracks and if that means they not available, we will | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
encourage our readers to shop elsewhere. They will buy the | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
magazine and their shopping somewhere else. This is more than a | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
row over a magazine. It is a claim that public attitudes have shifted. | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
However, when it comes to a fence, the boundaries are not clear. | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
not like to see them in shops because they are very explicit. I | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
have small children with me and I do not want to answer questions about | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
why they are there. Not very nice. We macro I think they are | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
ridiculous. A beautiful woman, who does not want to see that? Bikinis | :18:46. | :18:54. | |
do not just appear in lads mags. Will we have to ban women's | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
magazines as well. The same pictures are in the sun and the daily the | :19:00. | :19:06. | |
daily Star so would we have two put covers on that as well. There has | :19:06. | :19:13. | |
been evidence that the tide has turned. There has been a gradual | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
normalisation of soft porn. We do not have to stand for it any more. | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
We can challenge it. The clearest evidence is how many people are | :19:22. | :19:28. | |
buying them. Loaded used to sell 400,000 copies 15 years ago, it has | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
now lost 90% of its sales, down to around 13,000 copies for each | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
addition. And if the decline continues at the same rate, there | :19:38. | :19:44. | |
may be nothing left to cover up. Shoppers were once attracted to big | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
out-of-town supermarkets because they could get everything under one | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
roof. Now as we buy more electrical and household goods online, major | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
retailers are facing a challenge, what to do with all their spare | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
space in stores. As our business correspondent reports, Tesco has | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
more of these than anybody else, and this year they reported their first | :20:06. | :20:12. | |
drop in profits for 20 years. Tesco, it still takes more of our | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
money than any other retailer, but here is its problem. Shoppers do not | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
need to visit these big out-of-town hypermarkets any more, but Tesco | :20:21. | :20:29. | |
thinks it has found a solution. Today, a glimpse of the future, | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
Tesco's multi-million pound experiment. Its aim is to make this | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
story on to more than just the weekly shop. It has bought a | :20:38. | :20:44. | |
restaurant chain and given space for community activities. The boss told | :20:44. | :20:52. | |
me hypermarkets across the world are facing a challenge. Our answer is a | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
reinvention of the hypermarket. Food first, lots of experience, lots of | :20:56. | :21:03. | |
eating places, lots of browsing places, focused right on the family. | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
After two decades of breakneck expansion, building large | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
supermarkets like this one, the race for space is now over. Many | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
retailers have too much of it. This shift is being driven by consumers | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
and the way we now shop. And one of the big changes for supermarkets is | :21:21. | :21:27. | |
shopping online. New figures out today suggest just over one of us -- | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
one in ten of us are doing all our food and grocery shopping on the | :21:31. | :21:39. | |
net. That is a rise of 40% in three years. Shopping habits are changing | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
and online groceries we think will double over the next five years. We | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
can buy when we want, how we want at a time which suits us. That is one | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
of the challenges retailers are having to deal with. We are also | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
shopping more locally, more often, in smaller convenience stores. | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
Little and often because I work. When I have a day off I do what I | :22:02. | :22:08. | |
can but I am picking up it's on the way home most nights. I am finding | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
the larger stores too daunting. By the time you have gone half way | :22:12. | :22:18. | |
round, you have had enough. Offering something different than just | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
filling up the bags. All superstores will have to evolve if they are to | :22:21. | :22:28. | |
keep their customers keen. Hawk-Eye, the goal line technology | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
system for the Premier League and Wembley Stadium has been unveiled | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
today. The system uses 14 cameras and will take just a second to send | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
a signal to the referee's watch and earpiece, indicating whether the | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
ball has crossed the line or not. It will be used for the first time this | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
Sunday in the community shield match between Manchester United and Wigan. | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
The International Cricket Council have confirmed that controversial | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
HotSpot sensors which show whether a ball has hit the bat or not will | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
continue to be used in the two remaining Ashes tests. | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
That is despite complaints about its unreliability and allegations denied | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
by England and Australia that players have tried to cheat the | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
system. Joe Wilson reports from Chester-le-Street. | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
You can see the pace of change in the north-east sky. This is how the | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
Nissan car factory generates some of its energy. But is old-fashioned | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
best when it comes to cricket? There is a feeling that technology has | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
gone too far. I would like to see umpires make decisions. That is what | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
they are there for. They are trained. With the RS it is not | :23:40. | :23:48. | |
conclusive. This HotSpot is not picking it up -- DRS. Unless it | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
works 100% I do not think there is any room for it. Every move the | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
player makes is scrutinised by cameras. The slightest touch of ball | :23:57. | :24:04. | |
on but is opposed to show up. Kevin Pietersen is forced to deny that he | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
takes his bat in a way to fool the cameras. Suggestions of foul play | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
were made on Australian TV, ridiculed by England and Australia. | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
A lot of people play with their favourite bats and put tape around | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
them to make the bats last as long as they can. Cricket's governing | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
body is trying to reassure the teams that the umpires know what they are | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
doing. I think they have held their hands up and said mistakes have been | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
made. It is something they are trying to iron out so it is not a | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
talking point. It goes back to almost what it says on the tin, | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
trying to get more decisions right so those decisions do not have a big | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
impact on big aim. Taped up that have always been around in cricket | :24:50. | :24:57. | |
but there has never been an Ashes test in Durham. They would rather | :24:57. | :25:04. | |
see runs than reviews. Australia insist they are still motivated to | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
square the series, even though they have already lost the Ashes. | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
What is the weather going to be like for the cricket? Helen Willetts has | :25:13. | :25:23. | |
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decent day tomorrow. This has been creeping off the Atlantic, a weather | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
front. It is creeping into Northern Ireland. It will take centre stage | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
through the night and tomorrow. Some heavy bursts of rain along that | :25:37. | :25:45. | |
weather front, fairly breezy as well. There will be a lot of cloud | :25:45. | :25:54. | |
sitting on the hills. Quite grey and damp to start tomorrow morning. It | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
does look brighter by the afternoon. You could be caught and some nasty | :25:59. | :26:05. | |
conditions in the rush-hour in the morning. What it should blow away | :26:05. | :26:12. | |
quite quickly. Then the sun comes out. 12-macro showers and eastern | :26:12. | :26:18. | |
areas. Fairly confident for a decent day at Chester-le-Street. And you | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
can catch the coverage on BBC. There will be some showers around in | :26:22. | :26:31. | |
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eastern England. For many of us, a lovely day. We will see temperatures | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
around average for the time of year. The rain will linger little more in | :26:37. | :26:47. | |
the north-east of Scotland. It is also looking very promising for the | :26:47. | :26:53. | |
Welsh Eisteddfod tomorrow and Saturday. As we head towards the | :26:53. | :26:59. | |
weekend, there is a question over the detail. For Saturday, many parts | :26:59. | :27:05. | |
of central and southern and eastern areas are looking fine and dry. A | :27:05. | :27:14. | |
fresh breeze and showers north and west. A noticeable breeze on Sunday. | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
This weather system in the South might introduce some rain across | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
England and Wales. Hopefully, it will be for the first half of the | :27:22. | :27:28. | |
day and will slowly clearer way. It will be a bit up and down in the | :27:28. | :27:34. | |
weekend. Please do not make this the last forecast you see if you do have | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
plans. There is more information on the website. | :27:38. | :27:44. | |
A reminder of our main stories tonight: Britain is in the middle of | :27:44. | :27:50. | |
a baby boom. The latest figures show the population grew more than any | :27:50. | :27:55. |