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An inquiry's ordered into the scandal that's engulfed the | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
Co-operative Bank. Its former chairman, Paul Flowers, faces | :00:14. | :00:15. | |
allegations involving drugs, pornography and male prostitution. | :00:16. | :00:24. | |
Why was Reverend Flowers judged suitable to run the bank? | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
As the Government seeks to pin some of the blame for the scandal on | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
Labour, we'll have the latest from Westminster. | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
Also tonight: Two women and two children are killed in a house fire | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
in Derbyshire in the early hours of this morning. | :00:39. | :00:39. | |
Anger as Northern Ireland's top legal officer calls for an end to | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
criminal prosecutions for killings during the Troubles. Life has to go | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
on. I think we never got closure. So how can you have closure if you | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
don't get justice? Relief for the Greenpeace activist | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
Alex Harris - one of three Britons granted bail in Russia after months | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
in prison. And celebrations in Hull as it's | :01:02. | :01:10. | |
named UK City of Culture 2017. In the sport: Alastair Cook tells his | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
England side that they have nothing to fear ahead of the start of the | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
First Ashes Test in Brisbane tonight. | :01:19. | :01:37. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. The Government is to | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
order an independent inquiry into why the disgraced Methodist | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
Minister, Paul Flowers, was deemed a suitable chairman of the Co-op Bank. | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
It follows allegations that Reverend Flowers bought illegal drugs and | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
used a male prostitute. This afternoon, the Methodist Church | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
suspended him indefinitely. The inquiry - one of three now on the | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
way - is also expected to examine whether the crisis has had any | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
impact on the bank's customers, as our business editor, Robert Peston, | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
explains. Co-operative Bank in dire straits, | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
needing to be rescued, chaired as it careered to near disaster by a | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
Methodist Minister who apparently had a taste for hard drugs. At | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
Westminster, the Prime Minister said he wanted to know how it all went so | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
badly wrong. My right honourable friend, the Chancellor, will be | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
discussing with the regulators what is the appropriate form of enquiry | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
to get to the bottom of what went wrong here. There are, clearly, a | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
lot of questions that have to be answered. Why was Reverend FlouRps | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
judged suitable to be chairman of a bank? Why weren't alarm bells rung | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
earlier, particularly by those who knew? In fact, there are likely to | :02:50. | :02:58. | |
be three inquiries. The police probe into the illegal possession of | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
drugs, a so-called enforcement investigation by the Financial | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
Conduct Authority and a long and detailed inquiry into everything | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
that's gone wrong at Co-operative Bank to be ordered by the | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
Chancellor. So, what should the probes seek to find out? It should | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
be looking at the role of both the senior management team within the | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
Co-op organisation in deciding to appoint men like the Reverend | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
Flowers as chairman of the Co-operative Bank and I should think | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
it should look at as well as the role of the regulators. Labour is on | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
the defensive about the Co-op debacle because the Co-op Party and | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
Co-operative Group have donated over ?1.5 million to Labour over the past | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
decade. So, Labour's leader today decided attack was the best form of | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
defence. He's taken nearly ?5 million from Michael Spencer, whose | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
company was found to be rigging LIBOR rates, he has a party chairman | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
who operated a company under a false name and was investigated for fraud, | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
he's taken millions from tax exiles, his party has never paid back the | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
money from Asil Nadir and they are just the people I can talk about in | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
this House. What we can now see is that this bank, driven into the wall | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
by this chairman, has been giving soft loans to the Labour Party, | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
facilities to the Labour Party, donations to the Labour Party, | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
trooped in-and-out of Downing Street under Labour, still advising the | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
leader of the Labour Party and yet now we know all along they knew | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
about his past. Why did they do nothing to bring to the attention of | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
the authorities this man who has broken a bank? Reverend Flowers, not | :04:50. | :04:57. | |
quite so Reverend today, suspended indefinitely from the Methodist | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
Church. Who knows what the three probes will find. Which makes them | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
destabilising to the attempt to fill a ?1.5 billion hole in the bank. | :05:10. | :05:21. | |
Smile, as the Co-op's online bank is called. Probably not if you work for | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
the bank or have a stake in it. Our political correspondent, Gary | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
O'Donoghue, is in Westminster. Clearly, the Government are pinning | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
the blame on Labour. How much of a problem for Labour is all this | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
turning into? The heat is clearly being turned up on Labour now. We | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
have learnt today that when the Reverend Flowers resigned from the | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
council in Bradford, shortly after that he was appointed as a local | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
authority governor into a primary school and it seems that the school | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
was not told about why he was forced to resign. The Tory council are | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
calling for an inquiry. We are getting a political heat being | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
turned up here in London by the Prime Minister accusing Labour of | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
knowing all along about Paul Flowers' private life and him still | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
being an adviser to the Labour Party, something they deny. For | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
their part, Labour say despite having received more than ?1 million | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
from the Co-op movement over the last ten years, Mr Flowers was not | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
influential and that they did not know about his activities. The | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
question remains - why didn't anyone ask questions after he resigned from | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
the council? Surely someone must have known about the activities and | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
about his appropriateness to chair the bank. Thank you very much. | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
Two women and two children have been killed in a house fire in | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
Derbyshire. A third child is being treated in hospital for minor | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
injuries. Firefighters were called to the house in a village near | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
Chesterfield early this morning. Our correspondent, Sian Lloyd, is there | :06:53. | :06:59. | |
for us. Well, police and fire crews have | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
been working here all day and investigations will continue into | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
the night. This road usually a busy artery towards the M1 has been | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
closed to traffic. We understand that it is going to re-open shortly, | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
though, as they try to return to some sense of normality here. | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
From the outside, it looks unscathed, but fire took hold of | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
this terraced home in the early hours of the morning, killing four | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
inside. There must have been about five police cars, a fire engine and | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
it is surreal. Because it's yards away from my house. Shocking. When | :07:38. | :07:44. | |
fire crews arrived at the house at 5.00am, it was already full of | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
smoke. Two boys and two women had died inside. The only survivor, a | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
seven-year-old girl, was found in the back garden. It's not yet clear | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
how she managed to escape. She was taken to hospital in Chesterfield | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
where she's being treated for the effects of smoke. Officers don't yet | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
know what caused the fire. They say they are keeping an open mind. It is | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
a tragic event. The impact on the community is recognised and | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
together, we are working through that with the family. | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
Specially-trained officers are working with the family. | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
Investigations are continuing at the scene. They are described as being | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
at an early stage. And the latest information that we | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
are receiving is that it is looking less likely that the cause of this | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
fire is suspicious although the exact cause is not known. We don't | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
have any confirmation of that. It is, of course, the question that the | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
family of the victims and the community here desperately want | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
answered. Thank you very much. It would mark a radical change in | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
the history of Northern Ireland's Troubles and it's divided opinion | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
among many victims of the violence. Northern Ireland's top legal | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
officer, the Attorney General, John Larkin, has proposed an end to | :09:07. | :09:08. | |
prosecutions for Troubles-related killings carried out before the Good | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
Friday Agreement. More than 3,500 people were killed between the start | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
of the Troubles and 1998, when the Agreement was signed. The proposal | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
would cover all deaths caused by paramilitaries, police or the army. | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
If implemented, the move would stop all investigations, arrests and | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
inquiries. Our Ireland correspondent, Chris Buckler, has | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
been gauging reaction. They were decades marked by chaos | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
and killing. The period that became known as the Troubles saw Northern | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
Ireland engulfed in conflict. And left many families grieving. Years | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
have done little to ease the pain felt by some. Florence Magill's son | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
was a serving police officer when he was shot dead on duty in 1980. He | :10:02. | :10:09. | |
didn't have a chance. It was all in the back. He was left lying on the | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
road to die. Nobody there. That memory comes to me quite often. | :10:16. | :10:22. | |
Especially at this time of the year. Murders that took place on these | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
streets remain unsolved, killers never convicted and now there's been | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
a call by Stormont's chief legal advisor for an end to all | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
prosecutions and investigations related to the Troubles. The time | :10:34. | :10:41. | |
has come to think about putting a line set at Good Friday 1998 with | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
respect to prosecutions, inquests and other inquiries. This is a place | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
where the past can cast a long shadow. And there are some who feel | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
that the Attorney-General of Northern Ireland has gone beyond his | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
brief by making this suggestion. He doesn't call it an amnesty, but that | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
is how others are viewing it. We don't feel that is right. Victims' | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
groups expressed their anger when they met the American diplomat | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
Richard Haass today. He is trying to broker an agreement between | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
politicians about the past. The Attorney-General's comments have | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
stirred that debate. The way in which John's contribution has been | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
presented I think will present all sorts of difficulties for victims. I | :11:23. | :11:29. | |
think the focus of all that we do about the past has to be | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
victim-centred. That makes this a sensitive debate. Alan McBride's | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
wife was killed in an IRA bombing this man's brother was shot dead, | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
but they are united. What victims have been asked to do here from the | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
Good Friday Agreement in terms of saying the people that murdered our | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
loved ones serve a relatively short period of time in prison and then be | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
released. To come with all of that and then decide that there should be | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
no investigations and no inquests, no inquiries, nothing, I think it's | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
ridiculous. My first thought this morning was that is another door | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
shut in my face. I have been fighting for years to get the truth | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
about the killing. 30 years of violence scarred lives across the | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
British Isles. While the Prime Minister has made clear that there | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
are no plans for legislation, in the near future politicians will have to | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
find a way to deal with the dreadful past. | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
A senior police officer says an obsession with reducing crime is | :12:35. | :12:36. | |
creating pressure on police to manipulate crime figures. | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
Derbyshire's Chief Constable, Mick Creedon, says numerous officers in | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
many forces have told him that's what's happening. He says the police | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
are doing everything they can to ensure crime does not go up. | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
The Church of England has backed new proposals that could mean women will | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
be ordained as bishops by the end of next year. The vote came after the | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
Church's ruling body agreed to ensure that parishes which don't | :13:02. | :13:03. | |
want a woman bishop aren't discriminated against. A final vote | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
is now expected next July. Our religious correspondent, Robert | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
Pigott, reports. I baptise you... They have become a | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
common sight, women have done the work of priests for 20 years, but | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
opposition remains to their appointment as bishops. Some | :13:25. | :13:32. | |
traditionalis believe because Jesus chose only men to be his apostles | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
women cannot be priests, let alone bishops. The Synod has been the | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
arena for this epic battle, traditionalists have fought here to | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
be excused from serving under women. But, quite suddenly today they | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
accepted the compromise on offer and it past by a massive majority. An | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
honoured place is assured for all in these proposals. The battle surely | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
is over. Let's now get on with the mission for the wondrous things he | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
has done, now thank we all our God. The deal to open the doors of the | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
Church to women bishops gives traditionalists rather less than | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
before. They will still be able to request an alternative male bishop, | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
although that right will no longer be written into the law. There will | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
be an independent arbitrator who can rule in the case of disputes, a key | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
concession to traditionalists. After the vote, we brought together | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
representatives of the two sides, a traditionalist evangelical and a | :14:35. | :14:44. | |
progressive member of the Synod. Something had to be done. There was | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
huge pressure. I'm very glad we made a big move forwards. There was | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
pressure, but also a new willingness to show sensitivity towards one | :14:55. | :14:56. | |
another and I think the result will be good for the church if we can | :14:57. | :15:06. | |
focus on not on our differences. Women clergy say they are also | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
comprising. A final vote could take place as soon as next July. | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
Resistance to women bishops has been a matter of deeply held conviction | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
for many traditionalists. The church has been taken by surprise by how | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
quickly they have conceded. When the first women bishops are ordained, | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
probably in 2015, Anglicans will look back to this as the moment when | :15:31. | :15:32. | |
everything changed. Our top story: An independent | :15:33. | :15:44. | |
inquiry is launched into why disgraced Methodist minister Paul | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
Flowers was deemed a suitable chairman of the Co-op. Still to | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
come, a nation expects. Australia prepare to take on England in the | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
Ashes. In Sportsday on BBC News, work | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
starts to convert the Olympic Stadium into West Ham's permanent | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
home for the 2016 season. They have been dubbed the Arctic | :16:06. | :16:22. | |
30. A multinational team of Greenpeace activist 's and two | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
journalists who were arrested on their ship by the Russian security | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
forces two months ago during a protest against Arctic oil drilling. | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
They are charged with hooliganism and could face seven years in | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
prison. 12 of the 30 had already been granted bail and one | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
Australian's request was turned down. This morning, eight more | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
people appeared in court, including three of the six Britons being | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
held, and the parrot, Kieron Bryan and Alex Harris. They were also | :16:52. | :16:53. | |
bailed. -- Anthony Perrett. I feel trapped inside a political | :16:54. | :17:08. | |
game, it's horrible. Behind bars, looking scared and nervous, Alex | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
Harris, a British Greenpeace press officer who has been in a Russian | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
jails in September. I spent two months in prison. It has been the | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
hardest two months of my life. I beg you to grant me bail. I am a good | :17:21. | :17:29. | |
person. Pleading tearfully for bail, as she has twice before, but | :17:30. | :17:31. | |
this time the judge agreed. It's not over yet. It is nice that | :17:32. | :17:47. | |
Russia has made the right decision. She has been granted bail. We broke | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
the news to her parents at their home in Exeter, where they have been | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
following the whole thing on their computer. To see the sheer delight | :17:57. | :18:03. | |
on her face, because he could see how stressful it was during the | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
trial, it has been brilliant. It is a change of heart by the judges in | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
Russia. Suddenly, one by one, all of the Greenpeace activist are being | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
given bail. Down two flaws in the same building, video producer Kieron | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
Bryan was awaiting his fate. Then came the good news from his | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
translator. I was doing my job, I can't regret doing my job, I love my | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
job. It's an important thing. What Greenpeace do is an important thing. | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
But if you had told me what was going to happen, I probably would | :18:38. | :18:45. | |
not have been there. It was this Greenpeace protest at an Arctic oil | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
rig that prompted the strong Russian reaction. The next day, men from the | :18:49. | :18:55. | |
special services in balaclavas and carrying guns abseiled down onto the | :18:56. | :18:58. | |
Greenpeace ship. The activist 's had been detained ever since. The oil | :18:59. | :19:06. | |
and gas industry is vital to this country's economy and the oil rig | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
targeted by Greenpeace is Russia's first in the Arctic, where there are | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
vast reserves. Protesters are not welcome. But, this evening, Russia | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
relented a little and the first Greenpeace protester, a Brazilian, | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
walked free from prison. Paperwork means that the Britons will not be | :19:27. | :19:28. | |
out for a few days. In the past few minutes, the | :19:29. | :19:37. | |
Government has defeated a rebellion by Conservative MPs over its plans | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
to restructure the Armed Forces. The Defence Secretary Philip Hammond | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
wants to cut the regular Army by 20,000 troops and boost the | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
reservists is. But that prompted a backlash by Conservative | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
backbenchers. Caroline Wyatt is here. Just explain what is at stake. | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
The size and shape of the British Army. How many people are part of | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
it, whether they are regulars, reservists, part-time as you can | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
call up as and when you need them. The Ministry of Defence says they | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
are, by and large, cheaper. The MoD had to cut the number of regulars | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
after 2010. They had to cut budgets by 20%. They said regular numbers | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
would be brought down by 20,000, reserve is to be brought up by | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
30,000. Many Tory backbenchers, at least 20, back to that motion today. | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
They were deeply involved in defence, among them John Barron MP. | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
They said, take a pause, you have got rid of regulars and yet you have | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
not been doing very well as a government in getting the number of | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
reserves you want to. That motion was treated. It will carry on going | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
ahead, but I don't think this is the last we will hear on the matter. | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
The poet Philip Larkin lived and worked there. The actress Maureen | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
Lipman was born there. And it is the city that produced the 80s pop band | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
the Housemartins. Now Hull has been named the UK City of Culture for | :21:04. | :21:11. | |
2017. Colin Patterson is there. Ten years ago, a bestselling book | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
declared that's was the worst place in Britain to live. Today, it was | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
named the next City of Culture. So, why the change and what should we | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
expect from Hull in 2017? I am delighted to announce that the UK | :21:27. | :21:33. | |
City of Culture 2017 is Hull. A shock result and an ecstatic | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
reaction. Those who backed Hull's bid thought that justice had been | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
done. It fully deserves it. Hull has been a city of culture for many | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
years. This is a vindication of the work that has been going on over | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
time. Hull has had sporadic cultural victories in the past. Philip Larkin | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
was a librarian here in the 60s when he he wrote his major works. When | :22:01. | :22:07. | |
getting my nose in a book queue had most things, short of school, it was | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
worth ruining my eyes to make sure I could keep cool... And in the 80s, | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
Hull band the Housemartins made it to the top of the charts. But what | :22:18. | :22:25. | |
of the current cultural highlights? We have a lot of art going on, | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
music. I think it's about time, we deserve it. Quite a lot going on in | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
Hull. A lot of people give it a bad name, that it's a good city. There | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
are cultural aspects to route, you just have to find them. Organisers | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
say that it will feature one cultural event every day of the | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
year, 25 festivals, and it is aiming to change the perceptions of the | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
city. Hull is only the second place to become a UK City of Culture, a | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
title devised by the Government to boost to us and the economy of the | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
chosen area. Crucially, there is no extra funding from Westminster to | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
host the events. There was one main reason why Hull was picked. It is | :23:11. | :23:22. | |
because of the Hullness being thrown at me from the presentation team. | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
That sums up the hunger and desire to have it. One of their problems | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
has been that it is tucked away, you do not travel through it to get | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
anywhere else. In 2017, the hope is that millions will make it a | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
destination. Hull sees this as a real chance to change its image and | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
thinks that if it is starting to work in the current City of Culture, | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
Londonderry, it can work for them as well. | :23:54. | :23:55. | |
The Government is expected to announce an extra ?150 million to | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
help hospital A units in England cope with winter pressures. The | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
money is on top of code and ?50 million announced in this summer, | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
which was targeted at hospitals judged to be in greatest need of | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
extra support. In a few hours time, England will begin their defence of | :24:13. | :24:15. | |
the Ashes in the first test in Brisbane. The England cricket | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
captain Alistair Cook says his squad has nothing to fear against | :24:20. | :24:22. | |
Australia. Here's hoping they can win the Ashes for the fourth time in | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
a row. Australia is no longer a jungle. In | :24:30. | :24:36. | |
fact, this is Brisbane's botanical Park. For Ian Bell, a stroll. Fresh | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
in his memory, the series win in Australia three years ago. There is | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
no longer fear about coming here. A lot of the guys have great memories | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
of playing in Australia. I think that is great to have in our | :24:50. | :24:52. | |
dressing room and environment. Guys that have tasted success out here. | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
It takes a lot of effort to win any test cricket. But in Australia, as | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
an Englishman, it is the number 12. Everybody knows the great names of | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
Australia's past. Shane Warney is long gone. The current side have | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
only won one test match all year. Australian cricket knows it must | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
nurture new talent like never before. They spend ?20 million on a | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
new cricket centre in Brisbane. With the recovery and training facilities | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
to match any in the world, the Australian players can even learn to | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
cook here. One of the cricket coaches is a man who played over 20 | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
tests for England. Graeme Hick emigrated and is now helping | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
Australia's revival. But he warns it will not come overnight. They are | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
desperate, not only to win the Ashes, the goal is to get back to | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
number one in all forms of the game. Maybe four or five years time, the | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
people that start playing for Australia then will be the first | :25:50. | :25:52. | |
people to benefit from these facilities that the centre offers. | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
Cricket Australia has been promoting the series with a film imagining it | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
going down to a last ball thriller. In reality, is the Australian | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
captain convinced they can win? I am not going to promise the world and | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
tell you everything will be different. It will be a tough | :26:11. | :26:13. | |
battle, like it was in England. We have to play our best cricket to | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
have success. Australia's problem is that, with every Ashes success, | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
England grow in stature. As you can tell with Ian Bell. | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
Time for a look at the weather now. Lovely blue skies and Australia, | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
decidedly wintry here? I wish I could stand here and | :26:36. | :26:38. | |
promise you the high 20s they experience in Brisbane. Decidedly | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
cold. What I can give you is the weather widening down somewhat over | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
the next few days. The wind will be slowly easing. A bit more frost | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
around, a bit of fog as well. There will also be fewer showers. That | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
makes a difference. At the moment we are looking at lively showers. The | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
showers could be heavy enough for snow on higher ground, maybe a | :27:00. | :27:02. | |
coating of snow on the Pennines. Maybe some on the higher ground | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
further south. A little bit of clear skies between. The odd pocket of | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
frost or ice possible. In western Scotland the wind has been most | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
lively today. Light wind through the night, clear skies mean it is going | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
to be a frosty start but a dry and bright one. Watch out across parts | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
of Scotland. With temperatures below freezing we will see ice on roads | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
and pavements. Some parts of eastern Scotland will see showers. In | :27:31. | :27:32. | |
north-east England you will see the showers through the day. Winds are | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
going to a more north-easterly direction. They will bring in a | :27:37. | :27:39. | |
scattering of showers for the morning rush hour through England | :27:40. | :27:41. | |
and Wales. Some of you will miss them, but if you catch them, with | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
the wind as strong as it is, it will feel rather chilly. The wind will | :27:47. | :27:50. | |
continue to feed in showers to the rest of the day. A few showers | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
across eastern areas as well. Further west, they become less | :27:55. | :27:58. | |
numerous. Many will have a dry and bright afternoon with spells of | :27:59. | :28:01. | |
sunshine. It is not going to feel especially warm. Even in Scotland, | :28:02. | :28:06. | |
temperatures only four or six degrees. The wind will make it feel | :28:07. | :28:10. | |
colder, as it will on Friday. Still windy in East Anglia and the | :28:11. | :28:14. | |
south-east. Kent in particular could have a thoroughly wet day. After a | :28:15. | :28:18. | |
frosty start, a lovely right day for many. Only one two showers in the | :28:19. | :28:22. | |
forecast. In the weekend, high-pressure dolts, most of us | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
become dry but there is some high-pressure expected. | :28:27. | :28:31. | |
An independent inquiry is ordered into why disgraced Methodist | :28:32. | :28:37. | |
minister Paul Flowers was deemed a suitable chairman of the Co-op. That | :28:38. | :28:42. | |
is all from the BBC News at six. On BBC One we | :28:43. | :28:43. |