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The biggest reform to GCSEs in England for a generation, starting | :00:08. | :00:13. | |
with maths and English. The traditional grades will be scrapped | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
and replaced by a numbered scale from one to nine. The biggest reform | :00:17. | :00:29. | |
to GCSEs in England for a The changes will come in from 2015. | :00:30. | :00:48. | |
We'll be looking at them in more detail. Also tonight: what The phone | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
hacking trial - the prosecution claims voicemails left by Prince | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
Harry were hacked by the News of the World. We want is for teachers to | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
Barclays suspends six traders as an official investigation is launched | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
into rigging the foreign currency markets. Focus on the core skills. | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
Coming up on BBC News: Joe Hart is dropped Manchester City. | :01:05. | :01:27. | |
Good evening. The biggest shake-up of GCSEs in England in a generation. | :01:28. | :01:36. | |
The main changes are the current eight grades which currently go from | :01:37. | :01:47. | |
A-star to G will be replaced by grades from 1-9. There will be extra | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
marks for spelling, punctuation and grammar. Sarah Campbell reports. | :01:54. | :02:02. | |
Challenging, ambitious and rigorous. A description the government has | :02:03. | :02:10. | |
given to the new GCSE exams. What we want to do is encourage schools and | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
teachers to focus on core skills which teachers really want. That is | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
what will help our children get good jobs when they leave school. Back in | :02:19. | :02:27. | |
1988, the GCSE heralded a shift away from exams to more coursework. It | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
seems like we have gone full circle, back to exams, but with a different | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
grading system. What do those who think they who are going to be first | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
to sit the exam thing? You are more likely to get a better grade because | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
coursework is more of an individual thing. You have got more time to | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
revise. You will be more confident in the exams than you would if you | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
were doing coursework throughout. You have got up your whole timings | :02:59. | :03:08. | |
Gaul -- your whole time in school aiming for A-star but now they have | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
changed it and it is completely different. I am not comfortable with | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
it. The new exams are designed to be more challenging so content will | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
change as well. In English literature there will be an emphasis | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
on classic addition of lists and poets. Shakespeare will be studied | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
but set texts will also include at least one romantic poet and one | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
19th-century novel. Changes as well to the maths syllabus. There will be | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
more content, probably requiring more teaching time. Remember these, | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
formulas will have to be learned by heart. We go back to this poem... | :03:46. | :03:55. | |
The year after the English and maths exams Orange reduced there are plans | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
for the rest of the syllabus to follow suit. -- after English and | :03:59. | :04:07. | |
maths are introduced. Having change can be effective but it is how that | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
change is managed and the consultation that expose with the | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
teaching profession is a concern of mine. GCSEs are taken in Wales and | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
Northern Ireland but these will not be affected. Scotland has a | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
different exam system. It is only pupils in England who will have to | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
be prepared for change. Sarah is with me now. Where has the push to | :04:30. | :04:36. | |
change GCSEs come from? Originally, Michael Gove the | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
education Sarah Terry wanted to scrap -- secretary wanted to scrap | :04:41. | :04:50. | |
GCSEs altogether. They have tried to portray this as a new qualification. | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
The obvious change is the grading. And also the exams which will be | :04:57. | :05:04. | |
taken in Wales and Northern Ireland. The government says the | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
reason these are being changed is to make people more employable. On top | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
of the changes which are happening to new A-levels, the new primary | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
curriculum and the academies programme, you can understand why | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
teachers are saying this is more change. Michael Gove's answer is | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
there is only one chance children have that education and they are | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
trying to get it right. Thank you. In the phone hacking trial, jurors | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
have heard how the former News of the World editor Andy Coulson had | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
told people working on a story about a TV celebrity to do his phone. | :05:42. | :05:51. | |
Andy Coulson, along with seven other defendants deny all the charges | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
against them. Tom Symonds reports. Phone hacking, illegal payments to | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
public officials and a cover-up. Rebekah Brooks is being accused of | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
being involved in or three. Today, the prosecution set out in detail | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
the evidence against her and the other defendants, including Andy | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
Coulson. For the first time, the detail of how the private affairs of | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
Princes William and Harry were allegedly targeted by phone | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
hacking. While doing his homework at Sandhurst, Harry left this message | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
for his private secretary who had served in the SAS. | :06:28. | :06:37. | |
News of the World's Royal editor Clive Goodman turned that into a | :06:38. | :06:45. | |
story that the Prince was getting his aids to do his homework for him. | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
Andy Coulson was aware of how that story had been sourced. The court | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
heard there was a problem with phone hacking. If stories like this were | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
challenged, the paper could not get the evidence to back this up because | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
they had been obtained illegally. The fact they came from voicemails | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
might be spotted. The prosecutor, Andrew Edith, said important | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
evidence would centre on e-mails between Andy Coulson and the News | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
editor Ian Edmondson. They were trying to break a story about Calum | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
Best, the son of footballer George Best, and they were worried he might | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
find out and leak it to a rival newspaper. | :07:29. | :07:42. | |
The prosecution said this was a clear sign that Andy Coulson knew | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
about and ordered hacking. More evidence to come that MoD sources | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
were leaking stories for money, including news of the death of | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
active service personnel. Rebekah Brooks is charged with agreeing the | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
payments while editor of the Son. It is claimed the legal sources were | :08:03. | :08:10. | |
paid by cash transfers to branches of Thomas Cook. The prosecution will | :08:11. | :08:18. | |
continue its case next week. After that the jury will begin hearing | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
detail in a case which will last five months. The defendants have | :08:23. | :08:29. | |
pleaded not guilty to all charges. Barclays has suspended six traders | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
following an investigation into foreign exchange markets. | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
The bank is one of seven which have been contacted by financial exchange | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
regulators. They are looking at whether currency markets could have | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
been rigged. London is the most important hub account for 40% of all | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
foreign exchange trading. Hugh Pym is in the city. Potentially, this | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
sounds rather serious? This is an investigation which has been running | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
for a few weeks but it has hit the headlines this week following the | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
revelation that Barclays has suspended six foreign exchange | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
traders. RBS has suspended two. Three other banks have sent traders | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
home on extended leave. There is no evidence of wrongdoing at this | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
stage. The investigation is at a very early stage. Regulators are | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
looking at suggestions that the setting of a key exchange rate every | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
day at four o'clock was vulnerable for manipulation with dealers trying | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
to get that fixed at a rate which suited their own trading position. | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
It affect pension funds, and other investments out there. The city will | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
hope this will not turn into a repeat of last year's LIBOR scandal | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
with all those damaging revelations about alleged rigging of interest | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
rates. Thank you. In the last few minutes, the BBC broadcaster Paul | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
gamba genie has been arrested following allegations of historic | :09:56. | :09:57. | |
sexual abuse. It follows revelations following the | :09:58. | :10:12. | |
Jimmy Savile scandal. Full. Paul Gambaccini is the latest person to | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
be arrested under operation you chew. We are told he comes under the | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
category of others which meant he had no link to Jimmy Savile -- | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
operation you to. He spent the day answering questions about historic | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
sexual allegations. He has been bailed until January. There has been | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
no statement from him or his lawyer. We have not heard from his agent | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
either. He has a show on Radio 2 tomorrow which we have been told has | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
been pre-recorded. We think we will get a statement from the BBC later | :10:50. | :10:56. | |
tonight. Thank you. Our top story this evening: The | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
exams regulator announces the biggest reform to GCSEs for a | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
generation. And she disappeared without trace ten years ago, now | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
police in Lancashire are two review the case is of 14-year-old Charlene | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
Downes. Coming up in Sportsday, Kimi | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
Raikkonen says Lotus have not paid him this season. He has considered | :11:23. | :11:29. | |
not racing in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. | :11:30. | :11:36. | |
The Royal Bank of Scotland has announced it will not split its | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
business in two as it tries to recover from the financial crisis, | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
but instead has created a separate internal bank to deal with bad | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
debts. It will ring-fenced the 88 Ilium pounds worth of bad assets | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
such as loans it does not expect to be repaid -- 30 ?8 billion. Shares | :11:55. | :12:06. | |
in the bank fell by 7.5%. Our business editor Robert Peston | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
reports. The Royal Bank of Scotland, a bank | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
still in need of mending, unveiling a plan today to quarantine ?38 | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
billion of poisonous radioactive loans with the hope of getting rid | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
of all of them over three years. Chancellor, given that this ?38 | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
billion of toxic debt is absolutely the most poisonous that RBS has, it | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
is the stuff they simply cannot shift, wouldn't it be better to | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
extract it and put it on the taxpayers' balance sheet? The best | :12:41. | :12:48. | |
advice I got was the internal bank so we are splitting RBS into the | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
good bank and the bad bank. A new chief executive at RBS, breaking | :12:54. | :13:03. | |
with tradition. A former deputy governor of the Bank of England | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
savaged its small business lending. This report is shocking. It says | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
your people have not got the right skills, the targets the bank set | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
were inappropriate, there has been fragmentation of the management of | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
this business, you did nothing right in that area, did you? Five years | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
ago we were broke. Because you have lent money to the wrong people and | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
cannot get it back, you tighten an organisation up and that is what we | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
did five years ago. What is showing in that report is we probably | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
tightened up too much. We need to get the bank back to normal and how | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
it works with customers. Chums again, the Chancellor and bank boss | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
visiting a small business customer, in agreement that RBS should give up | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
its global ambitions and become focused on being a mainly UK focused | :13:56. | :14:04. | |
retail bank. Mending the bank is plainly a big job, is there any | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
chance that we will begin to get some of the ?47 billion that we as | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
taxpayers have invested in it before the general election? Frankly, I | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
think it is unlikely that we will be able to sell RBS before the general | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
election, just because there is a lot of work to be done to make sure | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
RBS cleans up the mistakes of the past, gets out of its big American | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
operations and focuses on Britain. Five years of low, RBS was the | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
biggest ranking the world and the most dangerous to taxpayers' well. | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
Now just wants to get act to the basics of British banking. | :14:42. | :14:49. | |
The head of Pakistan's Taliban has been killed in a US drone strike in | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
the region of North Waziristan. Hakimullah Mehsud, who the BBC | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
interviewed five weeks ago, was one of the most wanted men. James | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
Robbins is here. This was a man America had had in its site for the | :15:04. | :15:11. | |
last few years? That is right. The American government had a | :15:12. | :15:18. | |
million-dollar bounty on his head. He was responsible for the deaths of | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
thousands of Pakistanis. The Americans' particular interest in | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
him was they blame him for the murder of seven CIA employees by a | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
suicide or murder inside Afghanistan for 2009. It will be a very serious | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
blow to the Pakistani Taliban. It looks like Taliban sources at have | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
confirmed he is dead, they are announcing his funeral for | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
tomorrow. He will be replaced quite quickly. Many of his predecessors | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
have been killed and that has not been any trouble in finding a | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
replacement. The Taliban in Pakistan has been responsible for training | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
many militants which have gone out there, including for Britain. Not | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
just Washington but London will be quietly pleased by this news if it | :16:04. | :16:12. | |
is confirmed. Thank you. Ten years ago, a 14-year-old called Charlotte | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
Downes has appeared in Blackpool. Two murder trials followed. Now the | :16:17. | :16:26. | |
case is being reviewed. Ten years ago, a schoolgirl vanished | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
from the streets, never to be seen again. Lee said Charlene was groomed | :16:30. | :16:36. | |
for sex by older men in Blackpool, then murdered to protect the | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
abusers. Today, her parents remembered their daughter. They | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
prayed for answers, and detectives said they are launching a new appeal | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
to find the killers. We know Charlene was a vulnerable young | :16:51. | :16:58. | |
girl. She was exploited in Blackpool. The disappearance of | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
Charlene Downes exposed the darker side of Blackpool. Her family | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
believe she was groomed by takeaway workers, but new information | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
suggests a different story. Today, the lease sources confirmed that up | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
to 100 men from all backgrounds could have abused Charlene. They | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
said she was exposed to paedophiles from birth. Some were friends of her | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
family, and one met the 14-year-old on the night she disappeared. All | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
claims denied by Charlene's family. They say a grooming gang in | :17:31. | :17:39. | |
Blackpool killed their daughter. My daughter was abused by grooming | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
gangs. I live to get her killers behind bars, and I pray that one | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
day, that will happen. Two men were charged with Charlene's murder, a | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
Jordanian kebabs shop owner and an Iranian, but the courts decided | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
there was no case to answer. Whoever is responsible remains free. I was | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
not aware she was sleeping with older guys. This woman says she was | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
Charlene's friend from school and is also a victim of grooming. How bad | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
is the problem now? Really bad. Some of my vulnerable friends still do | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
it. They just go with them for beer and sleep with them. Police believe | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
someone here knows who killed Charlene Downes. Their message to | :18:27. | :18:29. | |
them is that ten years on, they are not giving up. | :18:30. | :18:36. | |
Police investigating the murder of a graduate working as a pizza delivery | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
man in Sheffield have arrested a 25-year-old man and a 17-year-old. | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
Thavisha Peiris, who was 25 and from Sri Lanka, was stabbed on Sunday | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
night. He was working his final shift for starting a new job as an | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
IT consultant. A lorry driver has been arrested for | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
suspected dangerous driving following a crash that closed the | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
M25 in both directions near Potters Bar in Hertfordshire this morning. | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
The motorway was closed between junctions 24 and 25 after a lorry | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
overturned across the central reservation. Four people were | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
injured, with the accident causing long delays. | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
Firefighters in England and Wales are about to go on strike in a | :19:14. | :19:15. | |
dispute with the government over jobs and pensions. This is of course | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
the weekend when most Bonfire Night displays will be taking place. Sian | :19:21. | :19:27. | |
Lloyd is at a display in Stoke. Firefighters say that by holding | :19:28. | :19:29. | |
their dispute this evening and for two hours on Monday, they hope it | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
will have less impact on the public. This is of course traditionally | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
their busiest weekend of the year, when the night sky is lit up by | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
bonfires and fireworks. These performers are the warm up act here | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
before the bonfire is lit at 6:30pm. At is exactly the same time as | :19:51. | :19:52. | |
thousands of firefighters across England and Wales will go on | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
industrial action for four and a half hours. It is part of a | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
long-running dispute with the government over pensions. They | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
object to proposals to raise the pension age to 60. They say many | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
members will be physically unable to do the work at that age. The | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
government is warning people to take special care this evening for those | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
for the half hours when there is a reduced service. So whether you are | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
cooking the dinner or lighting a fire work, and firefighters say it | :20:22. | :20:28. | |
is safer to come to an organised display like this. | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
The Welsh government is to get a bit more powerful. David Cameron was in | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
Newport and Cardiff today to give its assembly more control over its | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
own finances, including plans to let it control the money it raises in | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
stamp duty on house sales. There could even be the chance to raise | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
different rates of income tax, subject to a referendum on the | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
issue. Building a new housing estate in | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
Newport. When these plots are ready to be sold, the buyers will have to | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
pay stamp duty. But rather than being set in Westminster, in future, | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
it will be set down the road in Cardiff. The Deputy Prime Minister | :21:05. | :21:11. | |
Nick Clegg today made it one of the taxes that will be controlled by the | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
Welsh government. It has also been given borrowing powers for the first | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
time. A few miles away, David Cameron was shown the area where a | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
new ?1 billion relief road could be built with that money. At a news | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
conference in Cardiff, he said it was all part of developing a strong | :21:30. | :21:36. | |
Wales in a strong UK. It is good for a government to be responsible for | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
raising the money it spends -- at least some of the money it spends. | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
That leads to better conversations about how to spend the money. The | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
First Minister, Carwyn Jones, has been calling for Wales to have | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
parity with Scotland, which already has these powers, and Northern | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
Ireland, which has some powers over borrowing, but not over taxes. The | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
announcement today shows that we are being treated as equal partners in | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
the UK both as a government and a people. The Welsh government is also | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
being given the power in the future to a referendum on gaining some | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
control of income tax. At the moment, it does not want that | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
control. If it does in the future, the test it will have is persuading | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
the Welsh public that it can trust the politicians here with a chunk of | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
their earnings. On the streets outside the Welsh assembly, there | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
were mixed thoughts. I would not be happy about it. I would feel happier | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
the way they are. They control Wales, and they should control what | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
the Welsh people do. A significant milestone for devolution in Wales. | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
The challenge now is for the Welsh government to make the best use of | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
it. England face Australia at Wigan | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
tomorrow in the first of their autumn rugby internationals. | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
England's Geoff Parling will miss the game because of concussion. It | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
is now the main reason why players mismatches. There is growing concern | :23:06. | :23:16. | |
about the impact of head injuries. They are the head-on collisions that | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
are making rugby stop and think. The sport is currently trialling a | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
policy that will allow players who suffer head injuries to return to | :23:25. | :23:26. | |
the field of play after a five-minute medical assessment. Some | :23:27. | :23:36. | |
are angry. For 15 years, Barry O'Driscoll was medical adviser to | :23:37. | :23:38. | |
rugby's world governing body, the IRB. But he resigned after watching | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
his own nephew, Irish legend Brian Driscoll, being cleared to play on | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
in this match despite signs of concussion. I don't think anyone has | :23:49. | :23:55. | |
given us a mandate to experiment on players' brains like this, | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
especially when the arena they are going into is to talk. It is not | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
just an issue at the elite level. Here at the sport's grassroots, an | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
awareness campaign is being launched, but currently, there is no | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
mandatory concussion awareness training for junior rugby coaches. | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
That is something Peter Robinson wants to change. His 14-year-old son | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
Ben died after he was allowed to play on, despite concussion. Nobody | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
wants to talk about it. If rules are changed at grassroots in schools, | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
that can only be a good thing. I know Ben is gone and nothing will | :24:36. | :24:44. | |
bring him back, but if one person is taken off on a Wednesday or Saturday | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
afternoon, it has not been in vain. In other contact sports like | :24:50. | :24:52. | |
American football, there is mounting evidence that repeated concussion | :24:53. | :24:59. | |
and lifted -- lead to degenerative disease and neurological problems | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
later in life. A settlement of ?500 million has just been reached after | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
a player sued the NFL over it. So with the similarities to its | :25:08. | :25:10. | |
American cousin, could rugby be next? With players bigger and | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
heavier than before, it is no surprise that concussion is now the | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
number one cause of missing matches through injury at the top level of | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
the English game. Gone are the days when we could put player welfare at | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
risk. The priority for any medical team is the player. We have to abide | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
by that. The rugby union has taken a good stance on this. The IRB insists | :25:33. | :25:39. | |
that player welfare is a priority and that their approach towards head | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
injuries is not just backed by experts, but has in fact reduced the | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
number of players staying on the field while concussed. But it is | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
clear that rugby's big hitting culture is forcing the game to | :25:51. | :25:51. | |
tackle some uncomfortable questions. Now the weather. Another buffeting | :25:52. | :26:01. | |
this weekend. It will be windy once more. There will be heavy showers as | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
well, but there will be some sunshine in between. There is a | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
decent chance of seeing a rainbow or two. Today it was wet across | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
Lincolnshire and the Midlands. That rain will stay overnight. The bulk | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
of England will stay cloudy and mild. But the far north of England | :26:21. | :26:27. | |
and Scotland have clear skies, meaning it will be cold. Some | :26:28. | :26:35. | |
sunshine to start the weekend in the north-east corner, turning wet or | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
across Northern Ireland. This arm of rain then moves across northern | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
Wales, northern England and Scotland. The far north of Scotland | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
may stay dry, but as the wet weather arrives, heavy snow is likely over | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
the top of the Grampians. Showers for the afternoon across Northern | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
Ireland after a wet morning. There will be sunshine between the showers | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
across England and Wales. But those showers will zip through because of | :27:06. | :27:08. | |
the strength of the wind, which will steadily increase, getting very | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
lively through the evening, gusts of up to 50 mph, maybe more around the | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
coast. Equates expected, to. Lots of celebrations are going on this | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
weekend, so bear that in mind. Strong winds do not mix well with | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
bonfires. Heavy showers, and it will feel on the cool side. It does not | :27:31. | :27:38. | |
warm-up for Sunday either. Then more rain starts to spread from the south | :27:39. | :27:45. | |
on Sunday evening. Could be a soggy one across parts of the South. | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
The main news: While we have been on air, a man arrested earlier this | :27:50. | :27:56. | |
week in relation to historical allegations of sexual abuse has been | :27:57. | :27:59. | |
named as the BBC broadcaster Paul Gambaccini. | :28:00. | :28:01. | |
And the exams regulator has announced the biggest change to | :28:02. | :28:05. | |
GCSEs for a generation, with major changes to grading and assessment. | :28:06. | :28:12. | |
That is all from the BBC news team. Now we go to our | :28:13. | :28:13. |