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Bottom of the class - our young people lagging behind in the global | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
race for skills. 16 to 24-year-olds in England and Northern Ireland do | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
worse in English and maths than their grandparents. Head teachers | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
are shocked. It's really startling to know that a country as well-off | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
as ours is doing so Padley against other countries. We'll be looking at | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
what this means for Britain's economic future. Also tonight: The | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
banks start unveiling their new mortgage deals under the | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
Government's latest Help To Buy scheme. | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
The British scientist behind the world's biggest experiment gets a | :00:39. | :00:49. | |
Nobel Prize for Physics. The mother of Baby Peter should be released | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
says the Parole Board. Watch your favourite BBC shows even before | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
they're broadcast - the new boss unveils his plans for the | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
Corporation's future. Coming up in the sport: Blackpool | :01:01. | :01:07. | |
manager Paul Ince has been given a five-match stadium ban. | :01:07. | :01:26. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. A major international | :01:26. | :01:34. | |
study has found that 16 to 24-year-olds in England and Northern | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
Ireland lag far behind young people in other industrialised countries | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
when it comes to literacy and numeracy tests. The Organisation for | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
Economic Co-operation and Development put them in the bottom | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
10%. In numeracy, Northern Ireland is | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
ranked 18th, while England is third from bottom out of 24. And in | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
literacy England slips even further to 22nd, with Northern Ireland | :01:58. | :02:05. | |
remaining at 18th. As Reeta Chakrabarti reports, England is the | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
only country where the young are less skilled than the old. It's | :02:08. | :02:17. | |
careers advice day for these pupils with a visit from people working in | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
top City businesses. Today's figures present a bleak picture of the | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
skills of those who have just started work. It's really startling | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
to know that a country as well-off as ours is doing so badly against | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
other countries in terms of literacy and numeracy. In this school and I | :02:33. | :02:39. | |
know in many others they're core skills we focus on across every | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
subject in order to make sure that our youngsters are fully prepared | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
and really developing those skills. our youngsters are fully prepared | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
The teenagers here have a strong focus on maths and English. Overall, | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
the survey shows that England is the only country where results are going | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
backwards with older people doing slightly better than younger. These | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
children represent the workforce of the future. The lack of skills of | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
those who have left school in the last decade or so is deeply worrying | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
with young adults in England and Northern Ireland achieving some of | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
the lowest scores of those in their age Group 4. It's a -- in their age | :03:12. | :03:19. | |
group. It's a different story in Korea. Experts say the young are not | :03:19. | :03:30. | |
particularly ative or risk-takers but excel in their field. If you are | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
looking for skill sets meant for manufacturing and production you | :03:34. | :03:40. | |
won't find a more consistent group of highly qualified graduates than | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
here. Given that level of international competition, the fear | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
is that skills in the UK nations are bound to decline over the next | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
decade unless urgent action is taken. The managing director of the | :03:51. | :03:58. | |
group that runs Premier Inn says they're vital but so are softer | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
skills. It's important kids come out of school with the right | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
qualifications. It's equally important they come out with good | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
social skills, able to deal with the public and work in teams and we can | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
help develop their skills to make sure they're successful in our | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
industry. Who is to blame for today's poor performance? Ministers | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
say labour was in charge when the young people in the report were at | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
school. Labour says it actually drove up standards in English and | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
maths. Whoever's at fault, the country clearly needs to up its | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
game. Our business editor Robert Peston is | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
here. How serious are the implications of this report for | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
Britain's economic future? Well, look, Britain is still struggling | :04:38. | :04:45. | |
under record levels of debt. It's been years since certain | :04:45. | :04:52. | |
self-sufficient in energy so we are really pendant on the skills of our | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
people to generate growth. Right now the skills of British people don't | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
look too bad against international competitors. As it was just said, | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
the reason is because we are really dependent on the skills of people of | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
our age and older. Our young people, and it is remarkable, are really the | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
only young people in the world less skilled, very basic numbers, | :05:18. | :05:24. | |
literacy, working with IT, less skilled than the older age group. | :05:24. | :05:31. | |
That raises the serious prospect that we will struggle as an economy | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
in coming years to perform, to pay our way in the world unless | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
emergency action is taken of some sort to improve their training. | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
There is another really worrying point about all of this, the lowest | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
skills are those from the poorest backgrounds, those whose parents had | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
pretty poor education. Our schools are not helping the disadvantaged to | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
move up the ladder. There is this risk of a low growth economy and a | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
more socially divided economy unless we fix this skills problem. Thank | :06:05. | :06:15. | |
you. Some of Britain's banks have begun | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
to unveil details of the mortgages they'll offer under the | :06:19. | :06:20. | |
Government-backed Help to Buy scheme. The aim is to assist people | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
who can't afford the big deposits that banks require at the moment. | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
RBS, NatWest and Halifax will start taking applications this week, with | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
HSBC and Virgin Money joining later. Here's our personal finance | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
correspondent Simon Gompertz. The housing market's been all but | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
closed to buyers without a 20% deposit. Now banks are rallying | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
behind the Government's Help To Buy scheme designed to cut the deposit | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
you need. It's just what Rob's family from Bath needed. With | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
£15,000 for a deposit when banks were demanding more than double | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
that, Help To Buy could be the kick they wanted. This looks as though | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
it's going to help fast-track us on to the property market even though | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
we aren't young first-time buyers. We are still first-time buyers, and | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
my guess is there are a lot in our position. Yet Help To Buy may not | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
help John, looking to buy with his wife in the London market. The | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
overall price of the house in the first place in London is very high. | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
Even with the reduction that the first place in London is very high. | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
Help To Buy scheme could provide in terms of the deposit there will | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
still be a lot going out and that's more than I can afford at the | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
moment. For buyers the key feature is that you have to put down a 5% | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
deposit but then you have to cover the remaining 95% with a mortgage, | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
not easy in the current climate. The Government's providing a taxpayer | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
guarantee for the top 15% of that which makes you much less risky to | :07:50. | :07:57. | |
lend to. Today HSBC and Virgin Money added their names to the list of | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
those promising to take part. There are already mortgages being made | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
available. From Friday, Halifax and Bank of Scotland are offering a | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
two-year fixed rate of 5.19% on a 5% deposit with a fee. RBS and NatWest | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
are already accepting applications for a fixed rate mortgage of 4. 99% | :08:16. | :08:25. | |
with no fee. A lot of people will struggle to do that, as they need | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
the stamp duty, as well. Those are people for whom these schemes are | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
going to work well. The Prime Minister in Northampton today faces | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
concerns from MPs and economists that Help To Buy now covering both | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
old and new homes will pump up a new housing bubble. I don't believe it | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
old and new homes will pump up a new will. If we look at house prices | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
across the United Kingdom, if you will. If we look at house prices | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
exclude London and the south-east thoer only going up by 0.8% a year. | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
Here on this estate because of the Help To Buy scheme the people who | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
are building this have explained to me they're going to build more. | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
Whether prices race ahead will depenned on how many manage to get a | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
mortgage via Help To Buy. Some say thousands could give it a go. | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
And there's much more on our website, including a calculator to | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
find out where in the country you could afford to live and whether it | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
would be cheaper to rent or buy. That's bbc.co.uk/where can I live. | :09:19. | :09:31. | |
The International Monetary Fund has upgraded its economic forecast for | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
Britain, despite downgrading its forecast for global growth. The IMF | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
had said there would be growth here of 0.9% this year but has increased | :09:38. | :09:44. | |
that to 1.4%. In 2014, the IMF says the economy will grow by 1.9%. In | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
the last hour, the Chancellor, George Osborne, said these figures | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
showed the Government's economic strategy was working. It's clearly | :09:53. | :09:59. | |
welcome that the IMF says the UK is growing more strongly than it was | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
and that shows that our economic plan is working and jobs are being | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
created in this country. But the IMF also warns us that there are a lot | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
of risks out there in the world economy and that's why we have to | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
stick with this economic plan that's helping Britain turn the corner. The | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
last three years the economy has flatlined. That's why the deficit | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
has not come down but more importantly, is why families are | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
worse off and even now the Government's been complacent saying | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
the economy plan is working, for families it's not working. They're | :10:28. | :10:35. | |
worse off. Our political editor Nick Robinson is in Downing Street for | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
us, outside the Chancellor's residence. | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
Those two have been arguing about economic policy ever since the last | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
election. Will the latest figures help to settle the argument? Oh, no, | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
they won't do that. There's no doubt the men inside Number 11 are being | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
careful not to say I told you so, but they are absolutely delighted | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
that the man from the IMF who just six months ago was warning them that | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
they were playing with fire, that it might be right to slow down the | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
drive to austerity, to slow down cuts, if you like, the man warning | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
there might not be growth again in the British economy in the | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
short-term, he has now stopped saying those things and that means | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
that a powerful voice that was very helpful to the Labour Party has, in | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
effect, been silenced but Ed Balls is still able to say hold on, the | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
man from the IMF was asked today whether the forecast settled that | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
row between plan A and plan B and he said, and insisted that it didn't. | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
Furthermore, he said that the Treasury should still consider the | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
possibility of borrowing money when it's cheap to build houses, to spend | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
on investment which is of course the Labour Party's policy and the | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
forecast Labour are pointing out is much better now but that's because | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
it was downgraded before and it's gone back again. I end with a | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
forecast of my own, whether I am standing here in two years' time or | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
someone else is standing here in 50 years' time, they will still be able | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
to have the argument between plan A and plan B because the economists, | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
the historians, and absolutely the politicians will still not agree. | :12:10. | :12:17. | |
Thank you very much. The leader of the English Defence | :12:17. | :12:25. | |
League is leaving the controversial -- controversial group. The | :12:25. | :12:45. | |
co-leader is also leaving. The British scientist Peter Higgs | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
has won the Nobel Prize for Physics - the greatest prize in science. In | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
the 1960s he was among those scientists who came up with a theory | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
to describe the most basic building block of the universe - sometimes | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
called the god particle. Here's our science correspondent, Pallab Ghosh. | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
Professor Peter Higgs, winner of the biggest prize in science for | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
predicting the existence of a particle that holds the universe | :13:05. | :13:14. | |
together, the Higgs Boson. Peter's contribution has been a big advance | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
scientifically. The journey we have taken in discovering it has been | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
something that's brought along not just theoristses but | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
experimentalists and many people excited to see us chasing down this | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
mysterious and difficult to find particle. It was discovered last | :13:29. | :13:36. | |
year by researchers at the Large Hadron Collider outside Geneva. As a | :13:36. | :13:43. | |
young physicist Peter Higgs was fascinated by the behaviour of | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
sub-atomic particles. He went on to develop a theory of how they gained | :13:48. | :13:55. | |
substance or mass. The theory of sub-atomic physics predicts the | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
existence of 17 particles, each with its own symbol. The discovery of the | :13:59. | :14:05. | |
Higgs last year was a final piece of the jigsaw. This was important | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
because it enables researchers to complete their theory, locking it | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
together. And to use it to discover newer, better explanations for how | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
the universe works. A year ago Peter Higgs wiped away a | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
tear at the news that scientists have discovered the particle he | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
predicted nearly 50 years earlier. He shares the award with Professor | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
Francois Englert of Belgium. I have never been in a scientific meeting | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
like that before, because people got up and cheered and stamped. I | :14:37. | :14:43. | |
regarded it as cheers for the home team. And that was what it was | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
really about. Maybe they were cheering me, too, but this was a | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
minor issue. Controversially, though, scientists from the Large | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
Hadron Collider have received no recognition for their discovery. | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
Through his school visits Professor Higgs is inspiring a new generation. | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
A shy man, he wouldn't give interviews today. But he said he was | :15:06. | :15:17. | |
overwhelmed to receive the award. Muslim school in Derby has been told | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
to stop discriminating against women or girls or face closure. The letter | :15:22. | :15:36. | |
came after a visit from inspectors. This faith school only opened its | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
doors to pupils last September. Tonight its future is in doubt. The | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
Department for Education has serious concerns about the way it is being | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
run and is considering removing its funding. In a letter to the chair of | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
governors, the education minister said the school had breached its | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
contract with the government by failing to ensure the safety of | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
children. Delivering an unacceptably poor standard of education and | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
discriminating in its policies and procedures towards female staff. | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
There have been reports of segregation of boys and girls and of | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
the enforcing of the strict dress code on non-Muslim teachers. This | :16:16. | :16:23. | |
former teacher said she was left feeling shocked and upset. After | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
working there for about three weeks, at about 9:30pm one night I | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
received a text from the principal making a comment about the way I had | :16:32. | :16:39. | |
been dressed at work. It had been deemed to be immodest. Obviously I | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
was incensed. Doctor Stuart Wilson deemed to be immodest. Obviously I | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
is in charge of the pupils here. He says they are working to put them | :16:47. | :16:53. | |
first. There are things we had to address, without disagreeing with | :16:53. | :17:00. | |
the Ofsted report but their view is objective. Ofsted has already made | :17:00. | :17:06. | |
public its concern about incomplete record keeping of safeguarding | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
checks on staff. Its full report will be published soon, but the | :17:09. | :17:15. | |
clock is ticking for this school because the Department for Education | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
says it needs to see an action plan for change by the beginning of | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
November or else public funding will be withdrawn. | :17:21. | :17:33. | |
Our top story this evening - and international study says young | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
adults in England and Northern Ireland are close to the bottom of | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
global league tables in maths and English. Still to come: It is a | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
British success story, a cheap computer designed in Cambridge and | :17:47. | :17:54. | |
made in Wales that aims to the will -- change the way children interact | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
with technology. We will bring you the latest from the England camp, | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
the players have been talking to the press ahead of their game against | :18:01. | :18:16. | |
Montenegro. The BBC's new Director General has laid out his plans for | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
the future of the corporation. Following one of the most | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
controversial periods in the BBC's history, dominated by the Savile | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
scandal and executive pay-offs, Tony Hall said he wanted a more | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
personalised BBC. He spoke about the next generation iPlayer, which would | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
allow viewers to see programmes before they are broadcast. There'll | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
be a new plus one service for BBC One, where programmes will be aired | :18:35. | :18:41. | |
an hour later. And Lord Hall set an ambitious target to double global | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
audiences to 500 million a week. Our Arts Correspondent David Sillito has | :18:46. | :18:55. | |
more details. It has been a turbulent year for the | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
BBC but this was a speech aiming to shift the debate both to the future | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
and the way the corporation relates to us. At the moment we treat | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
audiences like licence fee payers, we should be treating them like | :19:10. | :19:16. | |
owners. A new relationship. The iPlayer will become increasingly | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
personalised, its features increased. Increasingly watching | :19:19. | :19:28. | |
whenever you want on whatever device you have, wherever you are. Wherever | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
whenever you want on whatever device you are in the world. And the BBC | :19:30. | :19:37. | |
has got a new target to double its global audience to half a billion. | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
It wants to get more of its contents global audience to half a billion. | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
seen around the world, probably for free on advertising supported | :19:45. | :19:51. | |
platforms. Whereas the BBC in Britain, you will have to pay the | :19:51. | :19:58. | |
licence fee. One of our roles is of being an information provider, a | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
provider of debate, of coverage of our hearts and these other things, | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
which is kind of unique in the world. We have an important role. It | :20:06. | :20:14. | |
was also a chance to show off new possible programme technology. This | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
allows you to point the camera where you want. The BBC is about to enter | :20:17. | :20:27. | |
negotiations about its next ten years Charter. What will happen with | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
BBC funding in a world where it has got these wonderful OnDemand | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
services, the temptation from a politician to say you can monetise | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
that, you can charge for those services now, you don't need the | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
licence fee any more, that is definitely going to be the long-term | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
challenge to the way the BBC is financed. I am incredibly flattered | :20:49. | :20:56. | |
to be asked about my ideas... The celebrities were also doing their | :20:56. | :21:02. | |
bit today. It is hoped it will be a simpler, less bureaucratic | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
corporation. The parole board says that Tracey | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
Connelly, the mother of baby Peter, should be released from jail. She | :21:10. | :21:26. | |
was released indefinitely -- jailed indefinitely, with a recommended | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
minimum term of five years, in May 2009, for causing or allowing her | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
son's death in north London. A Parole Board panel recommended her | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
release from prison following a second review of her case. Is there | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
any way of knowing when she will be released? In theory, as soon as the | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
decision is made by the parole board, she could be released. It is | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
extremely unlikely anything will have happened today because there | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
are plans to be made, housing for instance would need to be sorted. | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
The Ministry of Justice will not say when she is being released, or | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
whether she will get help in changing her identity or advice. | :21:58. | :22:04. | |
After all, it was such a high-profile case. Our sources | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
suggest it is unlikely that will happen. She will be released on | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
licence so if she breaches the terms of that release she will be recalled | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
licence so if she breaches the terms to prison. She served six years. | :22:15. | :22:21. | |
That is because Peter died in August 2007, she was arrested sometime | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
after that although she was not sentenced until May 2009, that | :22:25. | :22:31. | |
sentence will include the time she spent on remand. Thank you. The | :22:31. | :22:39. | |
Welsh Government says it will increase its spending on the health | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
service to improve patient safety and cope with rising demand. It made | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
the announcement as it set out its 15 billion pounds budget plans for | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
next year - cuts are being made in other departments to pay for the | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
plans. More from our Wales correspondent, Hywel Griffith. | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
From the first years in the classroom to caring for growing, | :22:56. | :23:04. | |
elderly population. Adding infrastructure and the Welsh | :23:04. | :23:10. | |
government has a long list of demands for the £15 billion it has | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
been allocated from Westminster. But nothing has been scrutinised or | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
criticised more than the Labour administration 's record on health. | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
In four years, it has cut back more on the NHS than any other part of | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
the UK. Today a turnaround of sorts with an extra £570 million over | :23:28. | :23:34. | |
three years. There are huge pressures on the health service and | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
we are responding particularly to the Francis review of the crisis at | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
we are responding particularly to Mid Staffordshire foundation trust | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
and we are responding to that. It is a small step in the right | :23:47. | :23:53. | |
direction. Cat spent three years waiting for a hip operation. In 2012 | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
she made it as far as the ward before surgery was cancelled because | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
of the bed shortage. They obviously need the money to be put into the | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
hospitals so that patients like myself and other people in constant | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
pain can get these operations done. There are few patients who will | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
argue against giving more money to the NHS at a time when demand is | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
growing and waiting times are getting longer, but spending more | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
money here as to mean cuts elsewhere. Specifically in local | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
government, libraries and other council services will take a 9% cut | :24:29. | :24:35. | |
over two years. Local government will take a massive hit, I think | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
many Labour council leaders across Wales will be looking hard at their | :24:39. | :24:45. | |
colleagues and asking why they have been meted out for special | :24:45. | :24:52. | |
treatment. It will be under more pressure than ever to show it can | :24:52. | :24:59. | |
deliver on the NHS. It's the size of a credit card, | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
cheap to buy and was aimed at teaching children about the skills | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
of computer programming - now 18 months since its launch, the one | :25:06. | :25:08. | |
millionth Raspberry Pi has just rolled off the production line in | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
South Wales. Its creators say it's a great success story for British | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
technology. Here's Rory Cellan-Jones. Made in Wales, the | :25:14. | :25:23. | |
tiny educational computer which has been a worldwide hit. At this Sony | :25:23. | :25:30. | |
factory in South Wales, they have now made a million Raspberry Pis. It | :25:30. | :25:37. | |
all started with a Cambridge scientist who wants to change our | :25:37. | :25:39. | |
relationship with computers. His scientist who wants to change our | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
idea was a computer that will demand a bit of work from the user, rather | :25:43. | :25:49. | |
than just switching it on. I remember being told this was a | :25:49. | :25:55. | |
non-saleable product. I think a lot of our success has come from the | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
fact that there was a latent need for something like this. Enthusiasts | :25:59. | :26:06. | |
have found all sorts of weird and wonderful uses for the Raspberry | :26:06. | :26:12. | |
Pi, from playing xylophone... To Saturn system for bikes... To | :26:12. | :26:20. | |
filming the leap from a high altitude balloon by a teddy bear. | :26:20. | :26:26. | |
This has been a hit with computed using us around the world but that | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
was not the point, it was designed to change the way children use | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
computers and to teach them programming. That involves learning | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
to speak the languages that make computers work, typing in an | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
instruction to make something happen. At a Cambridge School, this | :26:41. | :26:49. | |
class is getting a first taste of computer programming, using the | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
Raspberry Pi to make music. I think it is really good. It is really fun | :26:54. | :27:00. | |
as well. Not complicated. It definitely made me want to do more | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
with computers. It is really clever. Would you like to learn to do more? | :27:05. | :27:11. | |
Yes, I want to do more with this. This is a rare sight in schools. | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
Raspberry Pi has shown we can make computers in Britain but the | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
revolution in how we teach children to use them as some way to go. | :27:19. | :27:28. | |
Now, the weather forecast with John Hammond. 20 degrees plus today but | :27:28. | :27:35. | |
we can wave goodbye to that because it is time for a reality check with | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
cold air surging its way across in the next few days. | :27:40. | :27:46. | |
There will also be a strong, northerly wind. It will be turning | :27:47. | :27:54. | |
colder, but for many there will be plenty of dry weather around as | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
well. Some showers around at the moment but a lot of dry weather and | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
that is the way it will stay for most. Further north, signs of | :28:02. | :28:06. | |
change, the showers pepping up, the wind picking up, and this is a sign | :28:06. | :28:14. | |
of things to come because this cold and windy weather will head its way | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
southwards during the course of the day. It will carry bands of | :28:18. | :28:23. | |
showers. One such band of showers will be heading its way down through | :28:24. | :28:29. | |
Wales towards southern counties mid-afternoon. Still some reasonable | :28:29. | :28:34. | |
temperatures but not as warm as today and turning progressively | :28:34. | :28:37. | |
colder further north. Just 10 degrees in the mid part of the | :28:37. | :28:43. | |
afternoon. A whole packet of showers further north and some wild wind | :28:43. | :28:46. | |
across the far north-east of Scotland, severe gales here and snow | :28:46. | :28:52. | |
across the Grampians. These strong winds go all the way down the east | :28:52. | :28:58. | |
coast, there will be big waves crashing over the seafront. Further | :28:58. | :29:03. | |
west after a cold, possibly frosty start, plenty of dry and bright | :29:03. | :29:08. | |
weather around. Looking further ahead towards the weekend, after a | :29:08. | :29:12. | |
frosty start in places, some sunshine across many northern areas. | :29:12. | :29:17. | |
Further south, some uncertainty. It looks like there will be an | :29:17. | :29:21. | |
increasing chance of rain developing through the weekend. | :29:21. | :29:24. | |
That is all from | :29:24. | :29:24. |