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children in the Philippines. A place shame. Dozens of families in this | :00:16. | :00:22. | |
Filipino city are involved in webcam abuse. We have an exclusive report. | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
This is, in effect, the epicentre of what NGOs call the cybersex | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
industry. It takes place in rooms, in houses around here, undercover. | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
No one really talks about it. This man organised and paid for | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
abuse from his home in Northamptonshire. -- | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
Nottinghamshire. The National Crime Agency says he's just one of many. | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
We'll be looking at how major crackdown on abusers is unfolding. | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
Also tonight: A new row over bankers' bonuses. The | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
Governor of the Bank of England says a cap on the size of pay-outs won't | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
work. The William Roache trial - a witness | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
says the Coronation Street actor wrote her a letter after indecently | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
assaulting her. The Royal Marines to the rescue. A | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
Cornish village gets some expert help after a Christmas Day landslide | :01:11. | :01:11. | |
left them stranded. Tonight on BBC London: | :01:12. | :01:18. | |
A teenager is found guilty of stabbing this schoolboy to death on | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
a bus in a row over a hat. And the brother of a man who was | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
shot dead in the Alps is told he won't face prosecution. | :01:27. | :01:45. | |
Hello and welcome to the BBC News At Six. Tonight, we bring you a | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
shocking story of child abuse carried out to order by British men | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
on vulnerable, young children thousands of miles away in the | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
Philippines. It follows a major crackdown by the National Crime | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
Agency, which has tracked men here in Britain who use a webcam link to | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
issue their instructions. Up to 100,000 children are victims | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
of sexual exploitation in the country. Much of it occurs in | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
Angeles City in the north of the country, a place now notorious for | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
this kind of crime. Our correspondent Angus Crawford begins | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
his report there. You may find parts of it disturbing. | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
This street holds a secret. A house where children were sexually abused | :02:29. | :02:40. | |
and raped by their own family. The room where police say the abuse was | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
broadcast by a webcam to foreign paedophiles. This British man, | :02:44. | :02:52. | |
Timothy Ford, directed that abuse from his home in the UK. A police | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
raid in the Philippines last year sparked by what was found on Ford's | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
computer. He was sent to prison for eight and a half years. 12 | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
children, the youngest just five, were taken into care. This 1... Some | :03:07. | :03:14. | |
of the children are now back in the community. Her parents are still in | :03:15. | :03:22. | |
jail. Ford planned to buy a house and open an internet cafe here, for | :03:23. | :03:31. | |
him and other paedophiles to use. But we have discovered that Ford is | :03:32. | :03:39. | |
just one of thousands. You can get easy money from cybersex. They call | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
it cybersex. We travelled across the Philippines and found some | :03:44. | :03:45. | |
neighbourhoods have been virtually taken over by it. The abuse of | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
children online has become an industry driven by poverty. The | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
families are in the cybersex business. Some of the father and | :03:54. | :04:03. | |
mother and bring their children here to show and get paid by the owner of | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
this house. This is Cordova, in the south of the country. It has become | :04:09. | :04:17. | |
notorious for this type of crime. This is, in effect, the epicentre of | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
the cybersex industry. It takes place in rooms, in houses, around | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
here, undercover, no one really talks about it. All they need is a | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
laptop and a USB. One recent survey showed that 80 houses were involved | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
here in the family selling their children for sex online. | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
This kind of webcam abuse has become rooted in the culture here and local | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
charities find it difficult to convince families of the harm it | :04:40. | :04:48. | |
causes. The customer that is buying from the other part of the globe | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
gives the instruction to touch this, touch that, kiss this and kiss that | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
and even sends sex toys to these children so they can use them. It is | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
a myth that there is no touching, there is no actual contact. There is | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
and what is deplorable is some of the parents or the relatives are the | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
ones touching the children. A couple of streets away, another home raided | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
and emptied. A two-year-old was rescued here. But it is something no | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
one wants to talk about. How can I know when the house is closed and I | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
did not look inside the house and see what they are doing? This is | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
where our children live. Some children to escape the abuse. -- do | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
escape. Here, at a shelter, where they can start to recover. They | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
really feel small, they feel dirty about themselves. Many are deeply | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
traumatised. Some talk of seeing on a computer screen the foreigner who | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
paid to watch. Tens of thousands of children are thought to be victims | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
of online sexual exploitation. But now at least police here and around | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
the world are tackling what charities call an epidemic of abuse. | :05:59. | :06:08. | |
Angus Crawford, BBC News, in the Philippines. | :06:09. | :06:10. | |
With me now is Alison Holt, our social affairs correspondent. A | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
shocking report, Alison. Just how new is this phenomenon? | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
Well, more than a decade ago, I visited the Philippines with British | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
detectives who, at that time, were trying to gather the sort of | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
evidence they needed to prosecute so-called sex tourists. Back here, | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
in the UK, in the courts. That was a tough job, but what they are talking | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
about is people who physically travelled overseas to abuse a child. | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
Angus's report shows how the spread of the internet has changed at least | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
the nature of some of that abuse. Effectively, it means paedophiles | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
can operate from the comfort of their own living room. It makes it | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
all too easy for them to abuse someone at the click of a button. | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
But even if the person who is paying for that is many miles away, | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
nevertheless, a child is still being abused, it is at their direction, by | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
someone else. It is very difficult to know the true scale of this but | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
last November, on the Six O'Clock News, we reported on how a Dutch | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
charity visited chat rooms and they used a computer-generated image of a | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
ten-year-old Filipino girl who they named Sweetie. During the ten weeks | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
that Sting, 20,000 men contacted her, 1,000 tried to pay her money to | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
perform sex acts and as a result, the names of 110 British men were | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
passed to the police here. Now, tomorrow, the National Crime Agency | :07:36. | :07:37. | |
will detail results of its own crackdown and it will set out plans | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
for working with authorities elsewhere, such as America, | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
Australia and the Philippines, in tackling what is, in the end, a | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
global problem. Alison, thanks very much. | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
The Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, says he does not back a | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
"crude cap" on bankers' bonuses. It comes after the Labour leader Ed | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
Miliband challenged the Government to intervene if the largely | :08:01. | :08:02. | |
taxpayer-owned RBS offered its staff bonuses that were greater than the | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
employee's salary. But David Cameron says he would only veto an overall | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
rise in pay and bonuses. Our Political Editor Nick Robinson has | :08:11. | :08:18. | |
the story. It is back. The political row about | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
the banks and whether they pay out too little to those who need their | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
loans and too much to, well, bankers. In the spotlight once | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
again, the bank owned largely by you and me, whose decisions on pay and | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
bonuses need the approval of the men in Downing Street. RBS are expected | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
to ask the Government to approve bonuses of over 100% on | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
multi-million pound salaries. Does the Prime Minister think that is | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
acceptable? If there are any proposals to increase the overall | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
pay, that is pay and bonus bill, at RBS, at the investment bank, any | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
proposals for that, we will veto it. Under a new EU law, bank bonuses | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
will be capped at the same level of salaries, so a top bank are getting | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
paid a million could get more would need the approval of the banks' | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
shareholders, in this case the Treasury, and Labour says they | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
should say no. Ministers say instead they will block any increase in | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
RBS's total pay and bonus bill. That could be easy, though, because the | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
bank is shrinking. RBS used to employ 250 highly paid bankers. The | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
last figures were just over 90 and the number is still dropping. Not | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
good enough, says Ed Miliband. When ordinary families are facing the | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
cost of living crisis, surely he can say that for people earning ?1 | :09:44. | :09:45. | |
million, a bonus of 1 million should be quite enough? He comes here every | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
week, he comes here every week to complain about a problem created by | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
the Labour Party. Last week it was betting, this week, it is banking. | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
Where is the apology for the mess they made RBS in the first place? | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
Ministers say they have not even been approached by RBS yet, but the | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
new law covers next year's not the new law covers next year's not this | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
year's, bonuses, and besides, they are fighting it in the courts. It | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
may be bonuses that really set people's pulses racing, but what | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
worries policymakers is the fact that the big banks are not learning | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
enough money to small businesses. The answer, everyone seems to agree, | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
is more competition. Later this week, Ed Miliband will unveil a | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
proposal to cap the size of those banks, to force them to off-load | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
some branches, to try to get more competition. Ideas that seem to get | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
a pretty cool reception from the Governor of the Bank of England. MPs | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
first asked Mark Carney if he shared their view that a crude bonus cap | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
was the wrong way to control bankers' pay. Do you agree with that | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
conclusion? Absolutely. And there was more. Did he agree that a cap on | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
the bank's market share might not actually work? The answer again, was | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
yes. Just breaking up an institution doesn't necessarily create viable or | :11:05. | :11:12. | |
more intensive competitive structure. For a short while, it was | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
the big six energy firms getting the flak. Now, once again, it is the | :11:17. | :11:23. | |
turn of the big five banks. Nick Robinson, BBC News, | :11:24. | :11:24. | |
Westminster. A woman has told a jury how the | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
Coronation Street actor William Roache sexually assaulted her in the | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
men's toilet at the Granada Studios in Manchester when she was14. The | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
alleged victim, who's now 63, is one of five women who accuse the | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
81-year-old actor of sex crimes in the 1960s and early '70s. He denies | :11:38. | :11:44. | |
five counts of indecent assault and two counts of rape. Judith Moritz's | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
report from Preston Crown Court contains flash photography. | :11:48. | :11:54. | |
William Roache arrived at court for the second day of his trial, | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
accompanied again by three of his children. His is a household name, | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
but here, he is the defendant in the dock. The actor has played Ken | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
Barlow in Coronation Street for more than 50 years, having appeared in | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
the soap since its first episode in 1960. But the prosecution say that | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
in the 60s, he took advantage of his stardom to abuse teenage girls. The | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
star's first alleged victims says that she went to the Granada Studios | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
in Manchester, where the soap was filmed, in 1965, when she was 14. | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
The jury heard she had gone to the studios to take part in a | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
children's talent show and William Roache had pulled her from her | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
dressing room into the men's toilets. -- from his dressing room | :12:42. | :12:43. | |
into the men's toilets, where he indecently assaulted her. Now 63, | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
she said she didn't tell anyone in the studios about it, adding... | :12:48. | :12:57. | |
In the dock, the 81-year-old actor listened as the jury was told that | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
soon after the assault, he had sent a letter to the girl, which included | :13:03. | :13:04. | |
the lines... This afternoon, a second woman, also | :13:05. | :13:19. | |
came to give evidence in courtroom number one. She says that in 1965, | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
she was a 16-year-old actress and she also alleges that William Roache | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
indecently assaulted her in the toilets at Granada television. Both | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
of the women that came to court today confirmed that they don't know | :13:33. | :13:34. | |
each other and that they have made their allegations independently. | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
The actor is charged with seven sexual offences against five girls | :13:38. | :13:45. | |
and denies them all. The case continues with evidence expected | :13:46. | :13:47. | |
tomorrow from the third alleged victim. Judith Moritz, BBC News, | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
Preston. At a separate trial, woman has been telling a jury that she was | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
indecently assaulted by the former BBC One DJ Dave Lee Travis in a BBC | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
studio in the 1980s, when she was a trainee newsreader. He denies 13 | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
counts of indecent assault and one of sexual assault. June Kelly's | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
report also contains some flash photography. Dave Lee Travis has | :14:10. | :14:17. | |
been described as an "opportunist who targeted vulnerable young | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
women". Today, the court began hearing from his alleged victims, | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
who he has said are the money or media attention. None them can be | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
identified. In the early 1980s, one was based at the headquarters of BBC | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
Radio, Broadcasting House. She was a trainee in her mid-twenties. Today, | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
she described her Dave Lee Travis, then a major name, came into her | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
Radio 4 studio and indecently assaulted her while she was | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
introducing a programme. Testifying from behind a screen, she said... | :14:49. | :15:05. | |
She said she couldn't reporting because he was one of the big stars | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
of Radio 1. She believed the management response would have been, | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
you are a big girl, deal with it, and there would've been a black mark | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
against her. During cross-examination by Dave Lee | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
Travis's barrister, the witness denied making up the story to boost | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
her media profile. He said his client maintained the incident had | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
never taken place. The jury then heard from women who worked with | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
Dave Lee Travis after he left the BBC. Two women described how, this | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
radio station, he targeted them. One said they used to pray he wouldn't | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
come near them. The court heard how on one occasion she shouted at him, | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
don't touch me, you are a pervert. The former DJ of reading not guilty | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
to 13 charges of indecent assault and one of sexual assault. | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
Our top story this evening. Child abuse to order. How British men use | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
the internet to abuse children in the Philippines. And still to come. | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
The Calstock landings. How the Royal Marines came to the rescue of a | :16:13. | :16:14. | |
Cornish village after a landslip. Later on BBC London, throwing out | :16:15. | :16:26. | |
the big bins. Why Lambeth is the latest council to introduce smaller | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
ones. And the cafe where you are not charged for food or drink. You pay | :16:31. | :16:32. | |
to stay by the minute. Some of Birmingham's best known | :16:33. | :16:42. | |
landmarks, including the NEC, could be sold off to help the city council | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
pay more than ?1 billion in legal claims over equal pay. The authority | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
has an estimated shortfall of ?550 million. It needs to settle with | :16:52. | :16:58. | |
thousands of workers, mainly women, who for years were paid less than | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
other employees on the same grade. From Birmingham, Jeremy Cooke | :17:03. | :17:12. | |
reports. From the original concept in the early 70s... To the Royal | :17:13. | :17:20. | |
opening ceremony in 1976. It's always been the National exhibition | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
Centre but the pride of the city of Birmingham. Owned by the council. | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
But today it seems the entire NEC group, including the LG Arena, the | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
National indoor Arena, and the International Convention Centre, | :17:36. | :17:37. | |
will soon be on sale to the highest bidder. A court victory for council | :17:38. | :17:45. | |
workers, mainly women, who has been paid less than colleagues, mainly | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
men, on the same grade, has left the council liable with back pain | :17:49. | :17:58. | |
estimated ?1.1 billion. -- back pay. The need for cash is urgent and | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
the council leader went on local radio to tell his city that the NEC | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
group may have to go. We need to invest in the NEC in order to ensure | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
the future of the next 20 years or so and it may be that, to do that, | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
Birmingham City Council has to diversify either part or all of its | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
ownership in the NEC. For a cash strapped council, selling this could | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
be the quickest most simple way to raise the millions they need. But | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
there are no easy decisions here. This is one of Birmingham's most | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
iconic landmarks, a real asset to the city and letting it go, would be | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
a one-off, irreversible decision. Birmingham is not alone in selling | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
assets. Croydon council sold Chinese ceramics are more than ?8 million. | :18:45. | :18:51. | |
Somerset raised ?18.5 million selling farms. Tower Hamlets council | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
is considering selling this Henry Moore sculpture. Selling assets | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
raises money fast and that's potentially good news for people | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
like former Birmingham council worker, Rosemary. They need to | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
consider the people at the soldier level rather than big businesses | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
because it is affecting people at this level more than their public | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
image. A lot of money. It take awhile to raise it I suppose? It | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
took them a long time to take it from us, bit by bit, as well. The | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
sell-off could generate ?300 million. Still leaving the council | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
with millions more to raise. Two men and three boys have been found | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
guilty of a series of rapes and sexual assaults in Peterborough. | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
Zdeno Mirga, Hassan Abdulla and three teenagers who can't be named | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
were found guilty by a jury at the Old Bailey. The group targeted five | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
teenage girls including a 13-year-old with a severe learning | :19:48. | :19:54. | |
disability. Two men and one boy were cleared of involvement in the | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
attacks. The Chancellor, George Osborne, has urged the European | :19:58. | :19:59. | |
Union to become competitive partly by cutting welfare spending. In a | :20:00. | :20:07. | |
major speech in London, Mr Osborne said that the treaties underpinning | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
the EU were no longer fit for purpose and a failure to renegotiate | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
and reform would condemn the continent to further economic crisis | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
and decline. Vicki Young reports. The promised to change Britain's | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
relationship with the EU was supposed to calm the rows in the | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
Conservative Party but some Tories are impatient for change. And the | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
tone of the debate has riled senior figures in Brussels. The right of | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
all citizens to move freely in Europe is one contentious area. The | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
government has tightened the rules on migrant claiming benefits but | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
today politicians were warned not to inflame tensions. Let's not use | :20:41. | :20:47. | |
stereotypes and let's have a reasonable debate. Let us not give | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
into scaremongering. But Conservatives hit back saying they | :20:54. | :20:55. | |
went out to stigmatise any nationality. You need to be careful | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
not to join others to drag the debate down because they can't argue | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
against it and start accusing people of saying things they haven't said. | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
But the Bulgarian Foreign Minister in London for a conference on EU | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
reform said offence had been caused. The campaign that was going on | :21:14. | :21:21. | |
especially last year was, I would say, a bit unpleasant. This | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
situation, the signals coming from the UK, will be changed and I expect | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
much more positive signals on both sides. Almost 100 Conservative MPs | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
have called for the UK Parliament to have a veto over all EU laws. Today, | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
the Chancellor George Osborne did outline a case for reform but he | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
certainly didn't go that far. Instead, he insisted this wasn't all | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
about Britain's does I had to pull back from Europe, change was | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
essential to make the EU more competitive in global markets. The | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
biggest economic risk facing Europe doesn't come from those who want | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
reform and renegotiation. It comes from a failure to renegotiate. It is | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
the status quo which condemns the people of Europe to an ongoing | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
economic crisis and the continuing decline. But the immediate challenge | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
for the Conservative leadership is to try to contain the party's | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
disagreement over Europe. A barrister and part-time judge has | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
appeared in court where she's been accused of lying to police about her | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
role in exposing how the disgraced cabinet minister, Chris Huhne, | :22:28. | :22:29. | |
avoided speeding points on his licence. The prosecution say | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
Constance Briscoe helped Mr Huhne's former wife, Vicky Pryce, to expose | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
his wrongdoing to the press. She is then accused of giving two | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
inaccurate statements to the police. Ms Briscoe denies three counts of | :22:44. | :22:51. | |
perverting the course of justice. The Liberal Democrats say one of | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
their peers, Lord Rennard, won't face any further action in | :22:55. | :22:56. | |
connection with claims that he sexually harassed female activists | :22:57. | :22:58. | |
because there is insufficient evidence. Lord Rennard, who | :22:59. | :23:00. | |
strenuously denied the allegations, has expressed a hope that he can now | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
resume his roles within the party. Our Deputy Political Editor, James | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
Landale, is in Westminster now. James, what happens now? Lord | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
Rennard was once one of the most powerful men in the Lib Dems, | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
running campaigns, picking candidates and last year he was | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
accused of sexual harassment. Today's internal investigation | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
found, yes, he did distress a number of women by violating their personal | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
space, but it also decided it wasn't enough evidence to prove he had | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
deliberately acted in a way that were sexually inappropriate. Now | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
there's slightly messy outcome has angered senior Lib Dems, Nick Clegg | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
has said he's not content and once Lord Rennard to apologise and says | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
he's not going to have any role in the party's election campaign but | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
Lord Rennard has issued a statement with no apology saying the | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
investigation is over and is looking forward to resuming his role as a | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
policymaker in the party. Not surprisingly, the women who made the | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
complaint against him are not happy, accusing the party of cowardice and | :24:04. | :24:06. | |
a cover-up, so a difficult day for the Lib Dems. A party that claims to | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
be the fairest of them all being accused of being anything but. | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
James, thank you. A ten-year-old boy has called in the Royal Marines to | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
rescue cars stranded in a Cornish village. About 40 vehicles were | :24:19. | :24:25. | |
trapped after a road collapse caused by a landslip on Lower Kelly, | :24:26. | :24:27. | |
Calstock, on Christmas Day. Charlie Southcott suggested bringing in the | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
marines after meeting a senior officer at a carol service. It | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
happened on Christmas morning. This landslip left 40 cars trapped in a | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
Cornish village. How would they get out? Enter ten-year-old Charlie, | :24:43. | :24:49. | |
whose mother's car was among those stuck. He met Commodore from the | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
Royal Navy at Cosmos carol concert and had kept his business card. So | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
when the parish council asked for suggestions... I said I have the | :25:00. | :25:07. | |
Navy's phone number. Well, the maybe -- Navy answered his call. Today | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
they brought four landing craft to Calstock so the cars could be freed. | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
The schoolboy watching closely as each vehicle was loaded up and taken | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
away. How are they doing? Very good at the moment. They have got about | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
ten cars off, I would've said for them and it's all because of you? | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
Yes. For the drivers who thought their cars might be stuck for | :25:34. | :25:36. | |
months, and unusual but very welcome rescue. I didn't expect this at all. | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
It's fantastic and will mean a lot to the local community. Have you | :25:43. | :25:52. | |
been rescued like this before? No. Four hours, Marines provided a car | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
ferry on the River Tame. There is something very bizarre about being | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
on a Royal Marines landing craft, glorified vehicle recovery service. | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
As well as helping the community where they are based, the Marines | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
said this exercise also had a serious purpose. This is training | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
for us and helping the population because we could be called upon to | :26:18. | :26:20. | |
do this in the future. Providing disaster relief. It was a ten minute | :26:21. | :26:27. | |
journey from the village to a key where vehicles could be unloaded and | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
driven away. Among them, Charlie, and his mum's car, now free. It's | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
been really good and I enjoyed the day. Does a military career beckon? | :26:37. | :26:44. | |
No, he wants to be a train driver. Time for a look at the weather. | :26:45. | :26:46. | |
Here's Nick Miller. Hi, George. This time last, harsh | :26:47. | :26:57. | |
winter but today, nothing like it. We're halfway through the | :26:58. | :26:59. | |
meteorological winter and we have had temperatures like this, widely | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
into double figures, just scraping it for many, but well above on the | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
North Devon coast, at 13 Celsius. Many of us had to content with more | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
rain and there's more pushing east across the UK tonight. The wind will | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
ease in Scotland and Northern Ireland allowing patchy fog to | :27:17. | :27:18. | |
develop under touch of frost and ice. Elsewhere, colder than last | :27:19. | :27:26. | |
night but a few degrees above freezing and showers coming into the | :27:27. | :27:29. | |
south-west later in the night, sign of things to come tomorrow. A breezy | :27:30. | :27:35. | |
day but the shower was not evenly distributed across the UK. Some will | :27:36. | :27:38. | |
have more than their fair share. A low pressure area to the west of | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
Ireland swirling in here and some of those showers will be heavy with | :27:44. | :27:49. | |
Halen Thunder. Not too much wet weather in Scotland that Taylor and | :27:50. | :27:54. | |
thunder. The wind is strengthening, especially for Scotland. In Northern | :27:55. | :27:59. | |
Ireland, we have to watch the rain tomorrow night into Friday morning. | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
Rainfall totals mounting. The showers moving across bands in | :28:05. | :28:08. | |
England and Wales. Further west, not many showers but along the south | :28:09. | :28:12. | |
coast, the West, showers keep on coming with Halen and thunder. | :28:13. | :28:19. | |
Friday, repeat of the same. Some bright and sunny spells. Look how | :28:20. | :28:24. | |
windy it remains in Shetland and the weekend. As for the weekend, it | :28:25. | :28:27. | |
looks like we will have to endure another spell of rain on Saturday. | :28:28. | :28:32. | |
Some of it may be heavy. Sunday, though, some sunshine, a scattering | :28:33. | :28:36. | |
of showers. At the moment, Sunday looks a better day this weekend. | :28:37. | :28:44. | |
That's all from us. It's goodbye from me. And on BBC One we now | :28:45. | :28:45. |