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British Gas parts of its prices, up to 8 million households face higher | :00:10. | :00:16. | |
bills. -- put up. The average cost of bills will go up by more than | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
9%, adding to the squeeze on family budgets. Families like ourselves, | :00:21. | :00:27. | |
who are just scraping by as it is, with the cost of living going up and | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
up, it is beyond our reach. We will be asking if there is | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
anything government can do. Also tonight, classroom disruption for | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
hundreds of thousands of pupils as teachers in parts of England go on | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
strike. And honours all round, Prince | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
William's first investiture and an OBE for Andy Murray. | :00:49. | :00:55. | |
Coming up in sport on BBC News, the FA stand by their man after England | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
manager Roy Hodgson apologises for an inappropriate joke he made in a | :01:01. | :01:02. | |
half-time team talk. Good evening and welcome to the BBC | :01:03. | :01:26. | |
News At Six. British Gas has become the latest big energy supplier to | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
announce a rise in its fuel prices this winter. Nearly 8 million | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
households will be affected, adding to the squeeze on family budgets. | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
The average dual-fuel bill is set to rise by more than 9%, so the annual | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
cost will go up by just over ?120. That would see customers having to | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
find nearly ?1500 per year. The energy secretary, Ed Davey, says he | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
is extremely disappointed by the price hike and has urged worried | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
customers to look at switching to cheaper suppliers. Here is industry | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
correspondent John Moylan. It was news that Graham Taylor could | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
have done without. He is a British Gas customer but currently | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
unemployed, and with a baby on the way he knows getting by this winter | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
is now going to be even tougher. With prices going up, it is going to | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
be harder than normal to be able to keep our heads above water. I don't | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
think the energy companies take that into consideration at all when they | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
think about their pockets and their shareholders' pockets. Today, | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
Britain's biggest energy supplier delivered the biggest price rise yet | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
from the major firms and blamed rising costs largely out of its | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
control. The price of wholesale gas is rising, we are buying it in a | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
wholesale market that is booming. The cost of moving it to homes is | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
rising, and that is set by the regulator. Thirdly, the | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
Government's costs are rising, and all of that is 85% of the bill, and | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
that has led to this decision today. The news broke as the energy | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
secretary was taking questions in the Commons. Labour has promised to | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
freeze energy prices and immediately went on the attack. Why won't the | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
Secretary of State stand up for consumers, support our Price freeze | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
and make the energy companies tell us how much money they are earning? | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
If British Gas consumers are worried about this, they should change. | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
There are a range of... There are a range of alternative suppliers. Much | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
of the heat in this growing row is over the question of how much the | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
Government's own policies contribute to the bills. Today British Gas | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
called for a review of a ?1 billion programme which requires the big six | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
firms to insulated our homes. The average rise in bills for a dual | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
fuel customer is ?123. But the company claims that the programme is | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
the single biggest component, amounting to ?49. Whatever the | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
reasons, in an online Q session, customers are vented their anger. | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
How will you feel when pensioners by because they choose to eat instead | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
of heat, said one. Another asked, why do all the energy company is put | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
up their prices by a similar percentage at the same time? British | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
Gas customers will face the highest energy bill ever, and having | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
committed to hold prices down as long as possible, British Gas has | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
now moved before many of its rivals. And political editor Nick Robinson | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
is at Westminster. David Cameron says that he is disappointed, but | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
truthfully there is not a lot a lot he can do about it. It reminds me of | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
what was said about the bankers a little while ago. You may remember | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
that politicians including the Prime Minister lined up to bash a banker, | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
and now they line up to bid the big six, the energy firms. The test, as | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
you say, is what can be done. Ministers are saying that there are | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
two keys to this, transparency and competition. They want the gas | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
companies, the electricity companies, to spell out what is | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
driving up those bills. They say that British Gas blame them, blamed | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
the Government for forcing them to insulated homes, but in reply the | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
ministers say that British Gas spends a lot more on that than any | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
other energy companies, so perhaps they are wasting money and full sing | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
customers to pay for it. They say they will try to make it easier for | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
people to switch to other suppliers. Labour, as you were hearing, say | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
that is not good enough, the markets needs reshaping, the companies need | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
to be restructured, and in the meantime there needs to be a freeze. | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
What nobody much wants to tell you, politicians or energy companies, is | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
there are not one energy crisis but three, not just rising bills in part | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
because of those higher wholesale prices, but also the need to deal | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
with climate change, and the very real threat of electricity | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
blackouts. If anybody can convince you that they can curb your bill | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
while spending more on green energy and more on building new power | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
stations, my suggestion - don't vote for them! | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
Hundreds of thousands of pupils across England have seen their | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
lessons disrupted after teachers took industrial action in certain | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
parts of the country. Schools were closed as teachers went on strike | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
over pay, pensions and jobs. More than 2600 were shut completely. That | :06:35. | :06:41. | |
is just over a quarter of the total. Education correspondent | :06:42. | :06:41. | |
Gillian Hargreaves reports. Teachers who took part in a | :06:42. | :06:50. | |
demonstration in London called for the Education Secretary to go when | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
they passed his office in Whitehall. Hundreds of other teachers took part | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
in rallies in Bristol and Durham. The second wave of regional strikes | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
has affected thousands of schools in southern and northern England. | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
Teachers are angry over pensions and pay. People larger than by | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
desperation to take this action. I am here with my son today, who was | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
the next generation of teachers. I dread to think what sort of future | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
the profession has. There is no policy, it is just a complete mess. | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
I am retiring at the end of year, and if anyone asks me if it is a | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
good profession to go into, I would say it was when I started years | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
ago, but now. So what have they walked out over? In future, teachers | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
will have to work beyond 65 before they can claim a full pension. They | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
will have to pay, on average, 3% more into their pension pot. And | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
there will be an end to automatic rises through the pay scale. This is | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
the second regional strike in England in the past three weeks. | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
Teachers are prepared to stand firm, but the Government says performance | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
related pay is here to stay, because it will reward the best teachers, | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
and that pension changes will bring teachers in line with other public | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
sector workers. Across waves of England, primary and secondary | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
schools have fallen silent. But the head of two east London schools | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
around the majority of her staff acting differently. They have looked | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
carefully at the issues, and they are issues that have been raised by | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
the unions, not things that concern the teachers working in these | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
schools. They fully support the introduction of performance related | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
pay, they agree with some of the policy direction that has been | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
proposed, and they are looking forward to the opportunities that | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
those things will bring for them in the future. The Government accuses | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
the unions are trying to cause as much disruption as possible by | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
holding two regional strikes in as many weeks. The unions, however, are | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
still planning a full-scale national strike in England before Christmas. | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
A coroner has ruled that six British soldiers killed in the single | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
biggest loss of life of service personnel in Afghanistan were | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
unlawfully killed on active service. Sergeant Nigel Coupe Corporal Jake | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
Hartley, and Privates Anthony Frampton, Daniel Wade, Christopher | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
Kershaw and Daniel Wilford all died when an improvised explosive device | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
detonated underneath their Warrior vehicle in Helmand province in March | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
last year. A former broadcaster at BBC Radio | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
Norfolk, Michael Souter, has been found guilty of historic sex attacks | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
on boys after a six-week trial at Norwich Crown Court. The 60-year-old | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
had denied 19 sex offences, including indecent assault, | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
indecency with a child, and serious sex offences against the seven boys | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
aged between 11 and 16. The allegations date from between 1979 | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
and 1999. Prince Charles's views on the | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
environment are well-known, but now he has given a warning to the | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
pensions industry. He says the emphasis on short-term investment | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
gains run the risk of consigning our grandchildren to a miserable future, | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
as he put it. Here is royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell. | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
He has never been afraid to go it alone on a favourite cause, usually | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
the environment and rural issues. Now the Prince of Wales has targeted | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
pension funds gathered for a conference in Manchester. They are | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
to forecast on short-term results, quarterly capitalism, as the prince | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
called it, in a video message to the conference. With an ageing | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
population, and pension fund liabilities that are therefore | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
stretching out for many decades, surely the current focus on | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
quarterly capitalism is becoming increasingly unfit for purpose. | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
Pension funds, he said, should focus on long-term investment and | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
sustainability. Otherwise your grandchildren, and mine for that | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
matter, will be consigned to an exceptionally miserable future. In | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
the past, the Prince's interventions, his speeches and many | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
handwritten memos to ministers have led to accusations of meddling. This | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
time, some pension experts say he is right. Actually, I think he has got | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
a good point, and it needs saying. We must invest for our futures, | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
looking for the long-term, not just for the very short-term. Charles has | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
made it clear that he will not give up his attempts to alert people do | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
what he regards as the huge dangers of short-term attitudes, whether in | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
relation to the environment or investments for the future. He has | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
made it his mission, and he won't be detoured from it. Speaking mind on | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
issues is one thing, as Prince of Wales, of course, a habit which will | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
need to stop as Charles knows, when ultimately he succeeds to the | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
throne. Now, we have just heard about rising | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
energy prices, and today the Chancellor has announced a deal in | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
China that he says could help limit price rises in the future. Chinese | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
companies will be allowed to invest in a new generation of nuclear power | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
stations in the UK. From China, Damian Grammaticas reports on the | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
latest stage of George Osborne's trip to the world's second-largest | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
economy. It is the biggest nuclear power | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
plant of its kind in the world. Under construction in southern | :12:27. | :12:33. | |
China. Now an almost identical one is likely to be built in the UK. | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
George Osborne's post today was stressing the reactor's safety | :12:39. | :12:48. | |
features. Special safety procedures? Like Britain, China needs to build | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
more power stations. An earthquake or tsunami? You are prepared for | :12:56. | :13:02. | |
that? But unlike Britain, China is already racing ahead with almost 30 | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
new plans in the pipeline. Today the Chancellor said he will welcome | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
Chinese involvement in Britain's nuclear reactors. What is in this | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
for George Osborne is money, cash that Britain urgently needs to fund | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
the building of a new generation of power stations. But there are | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
concerns about what bringing Chinese state companies in may mean for | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
future safety and security. The new reactors here are European designs. | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
The French firm EDF working with a Chinese partner. They should get the | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
first UK contract. We are going to make sure that the very strict | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
British rules and safety are applied, but Chinese investment in | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
British nuclear power means British taxpayers' money can be used, | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
instead of building these things come for building schools and | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
hospitals, and in the long-term British families get lower and more | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
stable energy bills. This is where the new reactors will be built, | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
replacing old ones at Hinkley Point in Somerset. The bills may not be | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
lower. The Government will guarantee the operators a set price for their | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
power, perhaps double today's cost of electricity. It is extremely | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
unlikely this is a good deal for consumers, and the Government is | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
guaranteeing EDF, the operator, a price over the next three or four | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
decades of around ?100 per megawatt hour. If the price of electricity is | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
below that, the consumer will make up the difference, and currently it | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
is significantly below that. No other Western nation has turned to | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
China to satisfy its need for energy. Still authoritarian and | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
common as lead, but now with the pockets, China could in future be | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
running UK nuclear plans. -- Communist led. Some will find that | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
uncomfortable, others, like the Chancellor, see the opportunity. ? | :14:57. | :15:08. | |
top story this evening: British Gas announces price rises from next | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
month. Average bills for dual fuel | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
customers will go up by 9%. Still to come: The half-time joke | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
that fell flat. When Hodgson apologises but gets the backing of | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
the FA. Coming up in Sportsday, FIFA's | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
rankings are out. England are up to 10th in the world. Switzerland, | :15:30. | :15:36. | |
Colombia and Belgium will be top seeds for Brazil. | :15:37. | :15:45. | |
Having a job is no guarantee that you can escape poverty. That is a | :15:46. | :15:52. | |
stark finding in a new report for the government. It says 5 million | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
will, many of them women, earns less than the living wage which for the | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
average family is ?470 a week. The government will miss its target to | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
end child poverty by 2020. It also says older people should be sharing | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
more of the burden of austerity with richer pensioners losing some | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
benefits. Reeta Chakrabarti reports. For | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
single mother Judith Hayley and her ten-year-old daughter Neve, meeting | :16:23. | :16:29. | |
ends meet is a struggle. Judith works part time from home. She keeps | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
the heating off during the day and cannot afford school trips for | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
Niamh. There are so many people in my position. You hear about the very | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
rich and the very poor, the people you perceive to be scroungers, but | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
don't people like me who basically, we have tried. We did not ask to get | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
into this situation. We are doing the best in the circumstances we | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
have. That is what it is about, it is survival now. She is not alone. | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
Two thirds of poor children are in homes where parents are working. | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
This will become an annual report, an audit of the life chances of the | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
worst. The conclusions are stark. Government and employers must act. | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
It says the balance between what working families and richer | :17:21. | :17:22. | |
pensioners get from the state should be rethought. This year, out of a | :17:23. | :17:29. | |
total forecast budget for Great Britain of ?204 billion, people of | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
working age and children get 93 billion. Pensioners get 111 billion, | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
of which universal benefits like winter fuel payments account for ?2 | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
billion. Free TV licences for older pensioners accounts for 0.6 billion. | :17:45. | :17:52. | |
I think the right question to ask is whether, at a time of austerity, | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
when you have such long-term youth unemployment, when family incomes | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
are being squeezed and public services are being cut, and when the | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
poorest people are facing a cap on their benefits, that wealthy | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
pensioners continue to have their benefits not just protected but | :18:10. | :18:17. | |
enhanced. I think many well-off pensioners feel instinctively | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
uncomfortable. Many ministers beg to differ. That is not a view I hear | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
often by pensioners who feel they are not an affluent section of the | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
population. Both points of view work echoed by these pensioners in | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
Yorkshire. I would not say anything about the television licence and | :18:37. | :18:38. | |
fuel because I would gladly give that up. If you have worked all your | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
life and paid into the system, you had your opportunity so why take it | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
away from us. That might sound heartless and I am not really but I | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
feel adamant about that. Many grandparents will find themselves | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
better off than their children or grandchildren will ever be. There is | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
no agreement on what should be done. Declining living standards for today | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
could be storing up major problems for tomorrow. | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
A Muslim free school has been described by Ofsted as dysfunctional | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
and rated inadequate in every category. That is less than a year | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
after it opened. I inspection at Derby's Al-Madinah school was | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
brought forward after fears were raised over teaching standards. The | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
school said it will act to improve its performance. | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
The Al-Madinah free school, opened a year ago. But already, Ofsted's | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
report highlights a catalogue of chaos. Al-Madinah it says is failing | :19:39. | :19:46. | |
in every area of inspection. Achievement, inadequate. Governing | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
body, ineffective. Attendance is low and declining. The school was | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
described as dysfunctional. Special measures is of a disaster for any | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
school but certainly for us. This is not where we want to be. This is not | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
the position we want the school to be in at this stage. We fully | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
acceptable report. With heavy heart we accept the report and we will use | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
this to help move the school forward as quickly as possible. This girl's | :20:11. | :20:17. | |
Mum says her daughter was bullied while in reception class at | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
Al-Madinah. She says the report is no surprise. I am very angry and | :20:22. | :20:28. | |
they have broken the trust. As professionals and teachers they have | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
let us down. This Ofsted report is the latest blow for a school which | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
has already been told by the government that its funding will be | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
cut off unless it makes serious improvements. Still some parents are | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
determined to stick with it. For me it suits my lifestyle because it is | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
an Islamic school. I know they are teaching my children well and I am | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
seeing their progress and I have no concerns at all. There is politics | :20:55. | :21:02. | |
here. Labour on the offensive. It is a devastating blow to the Education | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
Secretary's flagship policy. It reveals that pupils have been failed | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
on every possible measure and parents will want to know why the | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
Education Secretary has allowed this to happen. Were not prepared to | :21:15. | :21:22. | |
allow a school to fail its parents, children and community. We said we | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
will take swift action and that is what we are doing. Al-Madinah is | :21:27. | :21:33. | |
only one of 174 free schools, most of them oversubscribed. The problems | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
here raise the question about how much freedom free schools should | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
have. Payday loans companies will be hit | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
with a possible 10% tax on their profits under a Labour government, | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
that is according to Ed Miliband. The Labour leader wants to crack | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
down on what he called exorbitant interest rates charged by payday | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
lenders. Some firms can charge for thousand percent interest on | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
short-term loans per year. Mr Miliband said the levy would fund | :22:04. | :22:05. | |
the creation of alternative lenders like credit unions. The number of | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
badgers killed in a controversial cull has fallen well short of its | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
target. The government said only 30% of the | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
badgers in Gloucestershire had been killed during a pilot scheme to | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
prevent the spread of bovine TB. The target of the cull had been 70%. | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
That is around 3000 in total. The England manager Roy Hodgson has | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
apologised for using the phrase, feed the monkey, to Andros Townsend | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
during a team talk on Tuesday. He said he meant no offence by the | :22:39. | :22:47. | |
comet which he says was a punch line to a joke. Our sports editor David | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
Bond is here. Why the fuss given that none of the players have | :22:52. | :22:52. | |
complained about this publicly? Because the question of racism in | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
English football is now so toxic that even an indirect allegation can | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
lead to a huge media storm. This afternoon, there were all sorts of | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
rumours flying around about exactly what Roy Hodgson had said during his | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
half-time team talk. This led to the FA issuing a statement where they | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
said they fully backed the England manager and they had spoken to a | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
number of players and they confirmed no offence had been taken. That was | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
followed up with a statement from the antiracism group Kick It Out. | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
They said as far as they were concerned the matter was closed. | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
Except that there is another significant point which is someone | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
inside that dressing room on Tuesday night felt the need to leak this | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
story to a couple of newspapers knowing just how damaging this could | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
be to what Hodgson. That raises some questions about how united this | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
England team really are. Thank you. The Duke of Cambridge has presided | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
over his first investiture ceremony in Buckingham Palace. Prince William | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
presented awards to recipients from across the UK, among them the | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
Wimbledon champion Andy Murray who received an OBE. Peter Hunt was | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
there. The National Anthem in the | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
Buckingham Palace ballroom in honour of Prince William's grandmother. One | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
day it will be played for him. Before then he continues to learn | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
the ropes. This investiture ceremony of the latest stage of his royal | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
education. Having practised in private, this was for real, safely | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
wielding a ceremonial sword which had belonged to King George VI on a | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
head teacher and new night. Those honoured included some familiar | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
faces. Mr Andrew Murray for services to tennis. The Wimbledon champion | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
was nearly late after officials arrived at his house to conduct a | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
random drugs test. Drama over, he chatted to Prince William about his | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
recent back operation. I thought he seemed very confident. He spent a | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
long time chatting to everyone. I was told it was just over a minute | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
and I was told it would only be 15 seconds. He gave everyone a lot of | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
time and seemed confident. With William's days of saving lives as an | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
RAF search and rescue pilot at an end, he is looking for another | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
full-time role. While he does, he will continue to undertake some | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
royal duties. Prince William, a cautious man, is tiptoeing towards | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
his future when one day he will reside here. There is no rush. But | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
this morning he had another taste of what will lie ahead for him. For the | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
moment though, it is the present on the -- not the future on the mind of | :25:45. | :25:55. | |
the Cambridge is. Let's find out what the weather | :25:56. | :25:56. | |
holds for us. This Esau weather conditions -- | :25:57. | :26:09. | |
these Esau weather conditions continue for us. Despite a few | :26:10. | :26:17. | |
showers we had a lovely day today. This time of year, with clearer | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
skies, as temperatures fall away, widespread fog could become a | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
problem. I suspect vulnerable areas will be across eastern England. More | :26:27. | :26:38. | |
cloud and a few showers. Look at the Northern Isles. It will be chilly | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
here. First thing in the morning, the talking point will be the fog | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
will stop perhaps through the Vale of York there will be some dents, | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
stubborn patches of fog. Widespread fog across East Anglia and the | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
Midlands. If you have a journey to make first thing in the morning, it | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
is best to listen to your local radio stations for up-to-date | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
forecasts. The fog will ease away. We will see the rain moving into the | :27:08. | :27:14. | |
West. Fairly light and patchy across western fringes. More cloud around | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
than we have seen. Mild in the South. The rain continues to push | :27:19. | :27:31. | |
steadily northwards overnight, some persistent and heavy rain into | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
Scotland. I want to draw your attention to the south-east corner. | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
We could see a cluster of sharp, thundery showers in the south-east | :27:40. | :27:42. | |
early on Saturday morning. Hopefully, they will ease away and | :27:43. | :27:46. | |
then we are left with sunshine and blustery showers. A miserable day I | :27:47. | :27:53. | |
am afraid in Scotland. It is a day of sunshine and showers for the | :27:54. | :27:56. | |
second half of the weekend. Thank you. | :27:57. | :28:02. | |
A reminder of our main story: British Gas announces price rises | :28:03. | :28:08. | |
from next month. Average bills for dual fuel customers will go up by | :28:09. | :28:14. | |
more than 9%. That is all from the BBC News at Six. | :28:15. | :28:14. | |
It is goodbye BBC News at Six. | :28:15. | :28:16. | |
It is goodbye from me. | :28:17. | :28:18. |