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A day of revelations at the hacking trial - from a secret affair to | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
intercepting the voice mails of a government minister. Andy Coulson | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
and Rebekah Brooks were seeing each other for at least six years - the | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
prosecution says what one of them knew, the other did, too. The court | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
hears that Tessa Jowell, John Prescott and Lord Frederick Windsor | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
were named in an e-mail about hacking targets. We'll have the | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
latest details from the trial. Also tonight... Saving pounds by making | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
it easier to switch your energy supplier - the Government says it | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
wants to speed up the process. The Unite union is accused of | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
intimidating the families of Grangemouth bosses - they turned up | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
outside a director's home with this inflatable rat. Wherever I have been | :00:43. | :00:50. | |
able to, I have switched suppliers, but the prices keep going up. The | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
Unite union is accused of intimidating the families of | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
Grangemouth bosses. Hundreds of dangerous level crossings will be | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
closed - the rail regulator commits millions to improving safety. My | :01:02. | :01:12. | |
lord, I appeal to the applicant in this matter... That's something you | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
have not seen or heard before - cameras are in the Court of Appeal | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
for the first time. Good evening and welcome to the BBC | :01:19. | :01:51. | |
News at Six. The phone hacking trial has heard that Andy Coulson and | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
Rebekah Brooks had a secret affair when both were occupying senior | :01:55. | :01:56. | |
positions at Rupert Murdoch's media giant. The prosecution said a letter | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
from Ms Brooks showed how close they were and that "what Mr Coulson knew, | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
Ms Brooks knew, too". Both of them, along with the six other defendants, | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
deny the charges against them. Tom Symonds is following the case for us | :02:13. | :02:22. | |
- let's join him now. Yes, this is a complicated case, with eight | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
defendants, and of course, Mr Coulson and Ms Brooks at the centre | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
of it. This case is really about privacy, and therefore the | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
prosecutor really had to explain today why he was revealing intimate | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
details of their relationship, which he said was at the heart of the case | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
against them. Rebekah Brooks was criminally involved in a conspiracy | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
which resulted in phone hacking - the words of the prosecution today. | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
In 2004, she wrote to Andy Coulson, and the letter was found hidden at | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
her home. While both of them were working at News International, they | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
had been having a six-year affair. He was now breaking it off. In the | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
letter read out to the jury, she appears grief stricken... | :03:09. | :03:23. | |
Commenting on the letter, prosecutor Andrew Edis said... | :03:24. | :03:37. | |
Especially during 2002, when schoolgirl Milly Dowler went | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
missing. The court heard that during the search for her, the News of the | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
World was hacking her phone and preparing to write this | :03:48. | :03:49. | |
controversial story, suggesting she might be alive. While all of this | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
was going along, editor Rebekah Brooks was on holiday in Dubai, but | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
she was in constant contact by phone with Mr Coulson. The prosecution | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
says they were exchanging confidences, discussing | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
difficulties, and that she must have known about the Milly Dowler phone | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
hacking. In fact, the prosecution will try to prove that the editors | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
of the paper knew about much of the phone hacking commissioned by staff | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
on the newsdesk. The jury was told Ian Edmondson, a senior editor and a | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
defendant in this trial, had the job of tasking enquiries into targets | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
the newspaper was interested in. His key contact was Glenn Mulcaire, part | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
of the paper's special investigations team, who would | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
access the voice mails, reporting back on what was said. There will be | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
evidence that freelancer Glenn Mulcaire was given a pay rise when | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
Andy Coulson took over, and that another defendant, managing editor | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
Stuart Kuttner, agreed payments to him worth more than ?400,000. And it | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
was revealed today that the wife of Beaufort Colin Montgomerie will | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
testify that in 2005, over lunch, Ms Brooks told her all about stories of | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
alleged phone hacking. The jury -- the eighth tendency or deny the | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
charges. -- the eight defendants all denied the charges. But we have been | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
hearing today is not evidence, it is the long and details opening | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
statement of the prosecution. The evidence will come in the months to | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
come, and we are told today that that will include a tape of Andy | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
Coulson confronting David Blunkett, the former minister, with, it is | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
claimed, a story obtained through hacking. This trial is due to last | :05:36. | :05:37. | |
between five and six months. The Energy Secretary has accused the | :05:38. | :05:45. | |
big energy companies of trying to make it difficult for their | :05:46. | :05:47. | |
customers to switch suppliers. Announcing a review that will look | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
into competition in the energy market, Ed Davey also said he was | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
considering criminal sanctions for companies found to have manipulated | :05:54. | :05:55. | |
the energy market. Our industry correspondent, John Moylan, reports. | :05:56. | :06:05. | |
Millions of households are facing higher energy bills this winter, | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
prompting a raging political debate over how to fix what some call a | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
broken energy market. The Government's answer is a new test on | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
how well the market is working, with criminal penalties for those who | :06:19. | :06:25. | |
break the rules. That is why I intend to consult on the | :06:26. | :06:27. | |
introduction of criminal sanctions for anyone found manipulating energy | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
markets and harming the consumer interest. At how significant are | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
these energy proposals? At their heart is a new, annual assessment of | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
how competitive the market is. The first of these will be published | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
next spring. There will be a new probe into the financial accounts of | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
the energy firms, and the Government wants to encourage more of us to | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
switch, making it quicker and easier to change supplier, perhaps I'm just | :06:54. | :07:02. | |
24 hours. That would help people like pensioner David Godson from | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
Hampshire. He has switched supplier many times but he is still facing | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
higher bills, and he says the process is far from easy. It is not | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
quick enough, it is certainly not simple, and the tariffs are | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
unbelievably confusing. So, it makes it a very difficult job. I have done | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
it myself, but it is hard work. The energy firms were back in the | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
spotlight this week, attempting to justify they blame government green | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
levies for pushing bills higher, and they gave a cautious welcome to | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
today's plans. Transparency is a good thing, and today's plans are | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
sensible. Faster switching is a good thing, and the competition audit | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
seems to be the right thing to do. But the best way of getting bills | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
down will be to take -- would be to take these government levies off | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
tomorrow, immediately saving customers more than ?100. The | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
Government was accused of refusing to stand up to the big six energy | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
firms. We need action to fix the broken market, to break up the big | :08:09. | :08:16. | |
six by reading fencing -- by ring fencing their generation from | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
supply... Pressure is likely to mount on the Government to deliver | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
on its pledge to roll back the green levies. | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
Members of the Unite union involved in the bitter dispute at Grangemouth | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
have been accused of trying to intimidate company bosses - and | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
their families. In one case, Unite members turned up outside the home | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
of a director with an inflatable rat. David Cameron described the | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
incident as shocking. The union insists all its campaigning | :08:40. | :08:41. | |
activities have been legal and legitimate. James Cook reports. | :08:42. | :08:51. | |
Demonstrators from the Unite union, complete with a giant rat, on the | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
driveway of a Grangemouth company boss in Fife town. Two weeks ago, | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
the refinery dispute was brewing, and here in Dunfermline, the union | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
was piling on the pressure. This is a very quiet neighbourhood, and | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
people here do not want to go on camera to discuss the protests, but | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
the reactions have ranged from bemusement to shock, and one | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
neighbour told me she was disgusted by what had happened. Unite calls | :09:15. | :09:21. | |
the tactic leverage, and it has used it in other disputes. These were | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
demonstrations against construction companies in London. Today, the | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
Prime Minister defended the right to protest, and said the latest claims | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
were quite shocking. Nobody has a right to intimidate or bully, nobody | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
has a right to threaten people's families or to threaten people in | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
their homes. If these things have happened, it is very serious, and it | :09:41. | :09:47. | |
needs to be examined. As the dispute here in Grangemouth unfolded, it is | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
understood for directors of the owner, Ineos, were targeted by | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
demonstrators, three were in Hampshire, one in Fife town. It is | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
alleged that protesters set foot on private property, alarming children, | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
but the union leadership denies breaking the law. Faceless directors | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
who make decisions to close down fact is, to put workers and their | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
families out of work, destroy communities, need to understand that | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
if they think they are just going to disappear back into leafy suburbia, | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
then we have a right to protest. So, nothing illegal and certainly no | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
bullying or intimidation. The Labour leader declined to comment tonight. | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
His spokesman said the party condemned any intimidation by bosses | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
all workers, but accused the Tories of inflaming a difficult situation. | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
In this quiet suburb, it all feels rather like class war. | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
The family of a man who was stabbed to death in Sheffield as he | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
delivered his last pizza order have said they are devastated by his | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
death. 25-year-old Thavisha Peiris - here on the right with his family - | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
was found dead in his car on Sunday. He was about to start a new job as | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
an IT consultant. Speaking from their home in Sri Lanka, his parents | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
said that his murder has left them broken-hearted. | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
The former BBC radio presenter Michael Souter has been jailed for | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
22 years for a string of sex offences against children, spanning | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
two decades. Described as a "predatory paedophile", Souter was | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
previously found guilty of 19 counts of child sex abuse in a trial at | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
Norwich Crown Court. Souter, who had worked for BBC Radio Norfolk, denied | :11:25. | :11:26. | |
the charges. Syria's declared chemical weapons | :11:27. | :11:34. | |
facilities have been destroyed - that's according to international | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
inspectors. The announcement comes a day before the deadline set by the | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
United States and Russia. The inspectors will now turn to the | :11:45. | :11:46. | |
country's existing stock of chemical agents including sulfur mustard gas | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
and the nerve agent sarin. Our diplomatic corresondent, James | :11:52. | :12:04. | |
Robbins, reports. For weeks, specialist international inspectors | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
have been visiting Syria's declared chemical weapons factories. They | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
have tagged and sealed equipment so that no more chemical weapons can be | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
made. The Syrian government did much of the actual destruction, and often | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
that simply meant smashing up resident Assad, delivering on his | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
commitment, which was given under intense American and Russian | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
pressure. Now, the inspectors are confident they have met their first | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
deadline. We have personally observed one of the destruction | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
activities, and they are not now in a position to conduct any further | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
production or mixing of chemical weapons, as far as they're disclosed | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
capability is concerned. So, what has been achieved, and what remains | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
to be done? The inspectors were only able to make visits to 21 out of the | :12:55. | :13:01. | |
24 sites. Two are in areas being fought over in the surreal walk but | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
they are satisfied that all material there has also been destroyed. -- in | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
the civil war. But now a far tougher task lies ahead, given that they | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
have to destroy or remove all existing stockpiles of chemical | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
weapons by the middle of next year. Syria's government is claiming the | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
progress so far as its own victory, strengthening President Assad's hand | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
against the opposition rebels. I hope those who have always thought | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
of us negatively will change their mind, and understand that Syria | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
was, is and will be always a constructive partner in | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
international affairs. But the brutal reality in Syria remains a | :13:44. | :13:45. | |
civil war in which conventional weapons kill the vast majority of | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
victims. The rebels fear that pressure on them to negotiate, | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
coupled with President Assad's apparent political gains, put them | :13:56. | :13:57. | |
at a new disadvantage. Our main headline... The phone | :13:58. | :14:11. | |
hacking trial of Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson has been told they were | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
having a secret affair while they were running the News of the World. | :14:16. | :14:23. | |
And still to come - the fight for fairer funding, as it is revealed | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
Londoners get the lion 's share of arts money in England. | :14:27. | :14:52. | |
Punctuality and safety are top of the list for millions of commuters, | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
and they are at the heart of the rail watchdog's new plans for the | :14:58. | :15:04. | |
next five years. The Office of Rail Regulation says ?21 billion will go | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
to Network Rail. It has set a target of nine out of ten trains running on | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
time. They have also earmarked more than ?100 million to improve safety | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
at rail crossing. For all who use the railways, today | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
is about setting the direction of travel on our train services for the | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
coming five years. The regulator has confirmed its target about | :15:32. | :15:33. | |
infrastructure improvements and efficiency savings. There is also | :15:34. | :15:41. | |
the question of safety. Nine people died at level crossings last year. | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
Now, some 500 most dangerous will be closed, with hundreds more improved | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
with funding adding up to ?109 million. With more people using | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
crossings, more cars, more vehicles on the road, there is increasing | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
danger, so we need to continue to invest and improve safety at level | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
crossings. For some, the changes come too late. 14-year-old Olivia | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
Bazlinton and her friend Charlotte Thomson were killed on a crossing in | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
Essex in 2005. Safety improvements must be made at all of them, such as | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
locking gate so that people cannot make their way onto the track. I | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
would like to see them get rid of half barriers, where people can | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
weave around them. We have seen recent examples of people who have | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
gone very close to death. This near miss in Cambridgeshire underlining | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
the danger. A lucky escape making the case for change. Much of today's | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
attention has been on safety, but there has been fresh focus on | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
punctuality, with the regulator telling the rail industry that | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
across most of the country, it should aim to have nine out of the | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
ten trains running on time. I have lived abroad a lot, and everything | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
runs on time. I don't understand why they can't in England. Most people | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
would expect a slight delay, but you don't want to be stood there for | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
hours on end, not knowing when the train will come. This is part of the | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
wider drive to improve the nation's railways. Network Rail is being | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
challenged to do better, predicting problems and fixing them before they | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
cause disruption. MPs have voted to allow the | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
government to start spending money on preparing the controversial HS2 | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
line. There were 350 votes in favour, and 34 against the | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
legislation, which will release funds to pay for property and | :17:39. | :17:46. | |
compensation to evicted residents. Let's go live to our correspondent. | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
The government wins the vote. Does this mean HS2 will go ahead? Not by | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
a long chalk. This is just the latest stage in a long Parliamentary | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
process in favour of High Speed 2, this line that will stretch all the | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
way from London to Birmingham, and then divide, one mind to Manchester | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
and one to Leeds. What happened today is the government were told | :18:12. | :18:13. | |
they could spend money on the preparations. Next year, there will | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
be another piece of legislation that goes through the route in detail, | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
mile by a mile, and gives the government the detail to start | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
cutting this line. We are in for the long haul. The government hopes to | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
get it done by 2015, but that will still be pretty tight. Labour has | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
voted in favour today. Are they now on-board? Not entirely. For a | :18:34. | :18:40. | |
project like this, all parties agree you have to have cross-party | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
agreement because it is such a large objects, crossing parliaments and | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
governments. Although Labour voted in favour of the legislation today, | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
they are refusing to commit to the project long term, saying they | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
retain the right to say no if they think the costs are spiralling out | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
of control. This has caused some ruffles within the Labour Party. On | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
the one hand, some people are saying that the Labour Party can show it is | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
being prudent with the public purse, showing the public it can be | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
sensible with public money. On the other hand, Labour MPs and council | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
leaders are saying that this is madness, the party is just creating | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
unnecessary uncertainty. There was a meeting last night of Labour | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
backbenchers, in which they gave the Shadow Chancellor -- the Shadow | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
Transport Secretary a hard time. Labour's position at the moment is | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
constructive ambiguity, support in principle, but check the costs. I | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
think they will come under pressure to change that position as the | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
months go by. Thank you. Rescue workers in Niger have found | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
the bodies of 92 people believed to be migrant workers who died of | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
thirst after their vehicles broke down in the Sahara desert. Many of | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
the victims were women and children. It's not clear whether they were | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
attempting to travel to neighbouring Algeria or go further afield to | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
Europe. Police in Kenya have been handed a | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
petition complaining about the lax punishment given to three men | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
accused of raping a 16-year-old girl. The teenager was beaten and | :20:15. | :20:21. | |
raped as she returned from her grandfather's funeral. More than 1.5 | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
million people signed the online campaign objecting to the men being | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
ordered only to cut the grass outside a police station. | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
Legal history was made today in the Court of Appeal, when proceedings | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
were broadcast on TV, radio and online for the first time. Judges | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
were ruling on the case of the man appealing against a seven-year | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
sentence for money counterfeiting. Our correspondent is in the Court of | :20:48. | :20:54. | |
Appeal. I am in court number four of the Royal Courts of Justice, the | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
truly magnificent court of the Lord Chief Justice. Today was a historic | :20:58. | :21:07. | |
day. It was quite a day here. History in the making, as cameras | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
move from the outside to the inside of the Court of Appeal. My lord, I | :21:12. | :21:20. | |
appear for the applicant... Capturing for the first time a | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
hearing in the Victorian splendour of the Lord Chief Justice's court. | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
Under the rules, and with the judges and the legal teams can be filmed. I | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
don't disagree that he was a prime mover in the custody and the | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
distribution. This is Alexander Cameron QC, the Prime Minister's | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
brother. He is arguing that his client, Kevin Fisher, imprisoned in | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
May for seven years for his part in what police believe was the largest | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
ever plot to counterfeit pound coins in the UK, was given an excessively | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
harsh sentence which should be reduced. Since 1925 it has been an | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
offence to film or take a photograph in a court room in England and | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
Wales, with the exception of the Supreme Court. Filming in Scottish | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
courts has been allowed since 1992, but only if all parties agree. Now, | :22:15. | :22:21. | |
cases like this can be seen by millions. Broadcasters, who have | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
campaigned for decades for the change, are delighted. Whether there | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
will be hours and hours of coverage from a court room I probably doubt. | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
I think audiences will find that dry and dusty. But I think we will be | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
able to convey some of the drama that goes on in a courtroom. It is | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
the thirst for drama that leaves some in the legal world is concerned | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
for where this will lead, but not one of the country's leading | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
barristers. I think this will be seen as a good thing, provided you | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
build on it, and don't just let it evaporate into the ether and make it | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
a one-off. This should be a possible way of building a new future. If | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
this first experiment in filming goes well, it could be extended to | :23:11. | :23:20. | |
sentencing in the Crown Court. Kevin Fisher lost his appeal today, and | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
for those expecting a full trial with cross-examination of witnesses | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
and defendants, they will be disappointed, but there will be very | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
important cases in this court, and we will be able to see them. Today, | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
Justice really did become a little bit more open and transparent. | :23:37. | :23:43. | |
Thank you. Funding for theatres, museums and galleries outside the | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
capital is being squeezed because London swallows the lion's share. A | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
new report looking at how money is allocated has found that government | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
spending on arts in London are mounted to nearly ?70 per resident | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
in the last financial year, compared to less than ?5 per person in the | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
rest of England. The Birmingham Royal Ballet, | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
currently performing at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth. Two regional arts | :24:11. | :24:19. | |
theatres with a long history of collaborating. Both accept that arts | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
funding should favour London, but it is felt that the discrepancy is too | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
great. The extent of the balance clearly isn't acceptable. An extra | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
?100,000 into the massive cultural and creative economy in London is | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
minute. It is a drop in the ocean. ?100,000 spent in the creative | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
economy of Carlisle or Wolverhampton can really transform people 's | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
lives. The report found that of the ?320 million of taxpayers' money | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
distributed by Alps Castle -- Arts Council England, only ?3 60 per head | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
was given to the rest of England outside London. The amount given per | :25:06. | :25:13. | |
head in London was Lily ?70, but only ?4.60 in the rest of the | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
country. The amount London receives compared to the rest of the country | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
is not new. The report shows that the situation has become more | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
pronounced, not less. It also says that the additional money that has | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
come from the National Lottery since the mid-90s has compounded the | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
problem by following a similar problem. London has received three | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
times more lottery funds than everywhere else. It is far from | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
fair. They have just spent I don't know how much renewing the theatre | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
in Plymouth, but it is the only one for miles. I think it is | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
understandable, because there is such a high concentration of | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
cultural exhibits and places in London, but the contrast between the | :26:00. | :26:07. | |
two is too different. It has been argued that a production like | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
warhorse could only have emerged by a major sentence of -- centre of | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
excellence in London. But the Arts Council feels there is room for | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
improvement. It has just published its 10-year strategy. That sets out | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
what the Arts Council can do, including for the regions, and it | :26:28. | :26:30. | |
absolutely says that more should and could be done. That is what we've | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
got to do. It would appear that Arts Council England is reviewing its | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
funding arrangements, but Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
their own. It is time for the weather now. | :26:45. | :26:51. | |
More spells of wet and windy weather to come over the next few days, | :26:52. | :26:58. | |
including the weekend. If you are heading out this evening, expect | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
some showers. A gusty wind is covering the country. The winds will | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
ease a little bit overnight, and the showers will fade. We will keep | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
outbreaks of rain across southernmost counties. Further | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
north, temperatures could drop to single figures. The winds will stay | :27:16. | :27:22. | |
strong in north-west Scotland, but elsewhere, they should be a little | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
lighter tomorrow. Outbreaks of rain moving across England and Wales, but | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
some uncertainty as to how far north it will go. For much of eastern | :27:32. | :27:36. | |
Scotland and Northern Ireland, a decent day. Showers will pepper | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
western Scotland. A largely dry morning across the north of England | :27:42. | :27:50. | |
is, but that rain could creep northwards. In the south, the rain | :27:51. | :27:53. | |
could be quite heavy, especially along the south coast. The winds | :27:54. | :27:57. | |
could start to strengthen and it could get very gusty once more along | :27:58. | :28:01. | |
the south coast. The rain here may well pep up throughout the evening. | :28:02. | :28:07. | |
That could cause a few problems during Friday night. A dry start for | :28:08. | :28:11. | |
someone Saturday, but another batch of wet and windy weather moves in | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
from the Atlantic. Some uncertainty about the extent of the rain, but | :28:17. | :28:20. | |
the winds will get very lively. Could get very gusty again on | :28:21. | :28:24. | |
Saturday night. A lot of events going on then, so if you are heading | :28:25. | :28:29. | |
out, bear that in mind. Sunday is another blustery day with sunshine | :28:30. | :28:33. | |
and showers, and mourn brain lurking down to the south-west. -- more rain | :28:34. | :28:40. | |
lurking. The trial of Rebekah Brooks and Andy | :28:41. | :28:44. | |
Coulson has been told they were having a secret affair while running | :28:45. | :28:50. | |
the News of the World. That's all from the News at | :28:51. | :28:51. |