Browse content similar to 27/02/2014. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!
Line | From | To | |
---|---|---|---|
of people coming to live in the UK. Net migration's risen to more than | :00:08. | :00:13. | |
200,000 - it's a blow to David Cameron's pledge to cut numbers | :00:14. | :00:22. | |
drastically. We came for a better life and a better job. I love the | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
UK. As net migration from the EU reaches | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
its highest level in history - we'll be asking what chance David Cameron | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
has of cutting the numbers. Also tonight: The first German chancellor | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
to address parliament in 40 years - Angela Merkel says she wants a | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
strong UK with a strong voice in Europe. | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
Standard Life says it's drawing up plans to move some of its operations | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
to England, if Scotland votes for independence. | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
Russian tanks on the border with Ukraine as the ousted president | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
Yanukovych resurfaces in Moscow. The plant on Merseyside dealing with | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
the aftermath of thousands of tonnes of chemical weapons from Syria. | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
And paying tribute to a football legend - the streets of Preston are | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
packed with people wanting to say goodbye to Sir Tom Finney. | :01:14. | :01:20. | |
On BBC London: An attack on bankers bonuses as RBS announces its paying | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
out ?600,000 despite big losses. And criticism over plans by the | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
Mayor to arm the Met with water cannon. | :01:28. | :01:52. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. A surge in immigration | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
and a drop in people leaving the UK has dealt another blow to David | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
Cameron's pledge to slash net migration to the tens of thousands. | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
The latest net migration figures have risen by more than a third. | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
They went up from 154,000 in September 2012, to 212,000 people by | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
the same time last year. The rise was driven by a dramatic increase in | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
the number of people coming here from other EU countries. Here's our | :02:16. | :02:26. | |
home editor, Mark Easton. Just arrived from Romania, | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
passengers who represent two of the most incendiary issues for the | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
government, immigration and Europe. Today, figures show the UK has seen | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
more migrants arriving from the European Union than ever before. | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
Where have you come from? Romania. Have you come for work? Yes. Have | :02:47. | :02:55. | |
you got a job? Guests. Net migration from the EU has doubled in a year, | :02:56. | :03:08. | |
the highest level in history. An estimated 20,000 Romanians and | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
Bulgarians came to the UK last year. It looks almost impossible for the | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
government to hit its target of cutting net migration overall. The | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
current figure is twice that. That is wiry remain focused on dealing | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
with the abuse of free movement and also addressing some of the benefit | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
and welfare factors which may be a pull factor to attract people to | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
come to the UK. Six out of ten of the new European migrants have come | :03:39. | :03:46. | |
here to work, following in the footsteps of people from Spain and | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
Romania. It is a good place to have fun. Opportunities to learn new | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
things. Came for a better life and a better job. The foreign workers from | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
the EU outnumber those from the rest of the world put together. The | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
figures show the government's immigration policy is in tatters. | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
They are not doing enough to tackle immigration and they are putting off | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
university students. Trust is being undermined. The sharp increase in EU | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
migration began as the Olympics finished in 2012. The games were a | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
shop window for the UK but it is likely the improving state of the | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
British economy, compared to elsewhere in the EU, is what has | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
persuaded many Europeans to move here. We are at risk. If there is a | :04:40. | :04:47. | |
serious crisis in the euro zone, and migrate to re-wave of the likes we | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
have never seen before. With a general election in little over a | :04:53. | :05:00. | |
year, the government's chosen message of success in controlling | :05:01. | :05:02. | |
immigration is telling an unlikely story. | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
The latest immigration figures come as the German Chancellor, Angela | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
Merkel, was in London telling parliament she can't promise | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
fundamental reform of the EU. Mrs Merkel made it clear that she wants | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
Britain to remain a "strong voice" in Europe. Our political editor Nick | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
Robinson reports. They treated her like the queen of | :05:22. | :05:28. | |
Europe in Parliament today. The Prime Minister believes Angela | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
Merkel holds the key to his dream of forging a new relationship with the | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
EU. His allies briefed that today she would show that she is on his | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
side. I have been told that there are very special expectations of my | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
speech here today. Looking on, ever so nervously, the men who know that | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
her intentions will form the backdrop to their election | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
campaigns. Some expect my speech to pave the way for a fundamental | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
reform of the European architecture which will satisfy all kinds of | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
alleged or actual British wishes. I am afraid they are in for a | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
disappointment. She would, she swiftly added, also dashed the hopes | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
of those who thought she would rule out change, switching to German, | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
there was plenty of talk of reform but no promise to change your's | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
treaties. None to give powers back to Britain. We need a strong United | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
Kingdom with a strong voice inside the European Union. If we have that, | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
we will be able to make the necessary changes for the benefit of | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
all. Left unstated at the end of a well-received speech, what exactly | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
their business is very changes are. What the Prime Minister knows that | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
on his own, he can change nothing in Europe. It takes the votes of 27 | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
other leaders. Some of course matter more than others. That is why | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
Germany's Chancellor got the red carpet treatment today. Angela | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
Merkel has the power to make or break David Cameron's dream of | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
reshaping the European Union. She said nothing today to convince his | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
sceptics that Germany is really on his side. After lunchtime talks, | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
David Cameron joked and teased and flirted with the woman who his aides | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
claim sees him like her naughty nephew. They were, he insisted, at | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
one. Angela and I both want to see change in Europe. We both believe | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
changes possible. I believe that what I am setting out, the changes | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
that Britain wants to see, to build confidence in the membership of this | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
organisation are doable. On cutting red tape and tackling so-called | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
benefit tourism, she signalled her agreement with Britain. As for | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
everything else, it would require all of us European compromise. | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
TRANSLATION:: It is not a piece of cake. It will be a lot of work. We | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
have already worked hard on other issues. If we want Britain to remain | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
in the European Union, which is what I want, one can find common | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
solutions. Who she will go shake those with, is of course, still a | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
matter for the British electorate, hence the talks with the man who may | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
become Prime Minister Miliband. Today has confirmed that David | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
Cameron's approach to Europe is not working. Chancellor Merkel will | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
leave the United Kingdom with a gap between what she is not working. | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
Chancellor Merkel will leave the United Kingdom with a gap between | :08:44. | :08:45. | |
what she's offering and what Eurosceptic backbenchers are | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
demanding as wide as ever. Angela Merkel's last stop was with the | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
woman she insisted was the only Queen in town today. She wore Royal | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
blue in her honour. As she left town, we are all being asked of any | :08:59. | :09:06. | |
clearer about what she might do? Nick Robinson is in Westminster for | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
us. As David Cameron got anything from this visit? It depends what | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
Angela Merkel view listen to. If you want fundamental change, you will be | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
disappointed. If you want treaties torn up and rewritten, you will be | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
very disappointed. If I'm the other hand, like the Prime Minister, you | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
heard Chancellor say change was doable, you will be happier. What | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
she was clear about was any change will only come about when all | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
European countries agree. The best bit of news she had for David | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
Cameron was that offered to change the rules on freedom of movement. | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
That was a principal, she said, but benefit tourism certainly was not. | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
We still do not know how that will change. If you want more than that | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
from a change in Europe, she made it pretty clear, you will probably have | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
to get out. Standard life has become the first | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
major Scottish business towards it might leave Scotland if there is a | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
yes vote for independence. The pension and savings firm, which is | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
based in Edinburgh, said in its annual report that it is putting in | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
place contingency plans to relocate. Standard life was founded | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
in 1825. It is one of six FTSE 100 companies with headquarters in | :10:26. | :10:33. | |
Scotland and employs 5000 people in Scotland. But 90% of the customers | :10:34. | :10:35. | |
live outside Scotland. Here is Lorna Gordon. | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
Edinburgh, for hundreds of years, a centre for banking and finance. | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
Among its institutions, standard life, successful and symbolically | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
important. Today warned it might move some of its headquarters if an | :10:51. | :11:00. | |
agreement is not reached. This intervention on business dominated | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
politics at Holyrood today. Standard life will find Scotland a good place | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
to do business. A Scottish government puts forward the concept | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
of a shared currency and regulatory framework which is exactly the sorts | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
of things which standard life has been calling for. The first | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
Minister's reassurances drew an angry response from the opposition. | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
No amount of bullying from Alex Salmond can change that fact. Now | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
all the first Minister admit that if Scotland leaves the United Kingdom, | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
people's jobs will leave Scotland. What is standard life saying? The | :11:37. | :11:43. | |
company's chairman stated: Scotland has been a good place to run our | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
business and compete around the world. | :11:48. | :11:57. | |
Standard Life is both important and iconic to Scotland's financial | :11:58. | :12:05. | |
services industry. What it says about the prospect of independence | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
matters. If the company were to move employees and funds out of Scotland | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
then it would cause real concern here. Is Standard Life did move then | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
obviously jobs and whatnot would be lost. You are an employee, this | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
statement may impact on you, what do you make of it? The company has | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
every right to its opinion like everybody else. They are driven by | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
fear and money. They are not part of the new Scottish vision. Realising | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
that vision, not impossible according to one credit ratings | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
industry. It is a company with deep domestic savings but there certainly | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
would be some significant challenges to going it alone, one of those | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
would be questions about what monetary arrangement, what currency | :12:55. | :13:01. | |
would the new country use. It is not just voters who have a stake in | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
Scotland's future, businesses do as well. And today, one very | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
significant company made its concerns known. | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
Our business editor Robert Peston joins us now. Are there any signs of | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
other companies drawing up contingency plans? We heard that | :13:20. | :13:27. | |
interesting comment from one of those famous rating agencies and he | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
pointed out that Scotland is a rich country and it would get the top | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
investment-grade rating but the other thing is that Scotland has | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
enormous financial companies. Lloyds and RBS are both domiciled there. | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
They have their headquarters there. It points out that the risks of | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
supporting those sorts of companies, those sorts of banks in a crisis | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
would be pretty challenging for such a small economy. It said it expects | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
those companies to move, to find a new home. And I have to say that | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
talking to bankers, I think that other banks do share Standard | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
Life's concerns and what Standard Life said may well be followed by | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
the big financial institutions. Thank you. | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
David Cameron has ordered an independent enquiry to assure that | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
no more letters have been wrongly sent to paramilitary suspects saying | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
they are no longer wanted men. It comes after the case of a man | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
arrested for the IRA Hyde Park bombing collapsed this week. | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
Northern Ireland's first Minister Peter Robinson who threatened to | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
resign, says he is happy with the enquiry. | :14:45. | :14:51. | |
The IRA's campaign of terror caused death and damage across the UK. From | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
Belfast to London, the years of bombings and shootings left many | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
victims. Yet in the case of an attack at Hyde Park, the main | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
suspect for murder will not face prosecution, and all because of a | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
letter wrongly sent to him by the government, assuring him that he | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
would not be prosecuted. There were scores of letters similar to the one | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
sent to John Downie and today the Prime Minister promised an enquiry | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
to make sure there were not mistakes. We will appoint an | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
independent judge to provide a full account into the administration of | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
the scheme to determine whether any other letters were sent in error. | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
Today, the government led crisis talks at Stormont, after the | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
Northern Ireland minister threatened to resign. I think the Prime | :15:39. | :15:45. | |
Minister and Secretary of State have been prompt, they have dealt with | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
the issue seriously and in the matter that is -- the manner that is | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
satisfactory to me. I do not intend to resign on the basis of if you get | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
what you want, why would you resign? But there are victims still | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
asking questions, including the families of those killed in the | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
Denis Gulin bombing. It is clear that Sinn Fein put forward the name | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
of one of the suspected this attack as part of the deal. I saw my dad's | :16:12. | :16:19. | |
decapitated body, for someone of only 18 years to witness that and | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
then 26 years later more or less told we will never get justice for | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
the people murdered in Enniskillen and countless other atrocities. The | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
issue of secret letters and deals still hangs over Stormont but for | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
the moment, the Prime Minister will be relieved that the Assembly seemed | :16:36. | :16:45. | |
secure. The time is 6:16pm. Our top story this evening: Net migration | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
has risen to more than 200,000, a blow David Cameron's pledge to cut | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
the numbers. And farewell to Sir Tom Finney. Thousands pay tribute to one | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
of the greats of English football. Later on BBC London: The Mayor's | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
accused of jeopardising hundreds of jobs after funding for a Science | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
Park in Dagenham is pulled. And the latest Olympic venue to be | :17:04. | :17:19. | |
transformed ready for public use. Hundreds of people have died in | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
chemical attacks in the Syrian conflict. A third of them were | :17:23. | :17:30. | |
children. Syria has 1,300 tonnes of substances including mustard gas and | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
the components of sarin and other agents. Syria agreed to an | :17:34. | :17:36. | |
international plan to rid itself of chemical weapons by the fifth | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
February this year. But so far only 13% have left the country. The | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
chemicals will be destroyed both at sea on board an American ship, and | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
at several sites in Europe, including Britain. Our Science | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
Editor David Shukman has been to a plant in Ellesmere Port which will | :17:50. | :17:51. | |
handle some of the chemicals. The waste disposal plant at | :17:52. | :18:02. | |
Ellesmere Port and the machinery that will help destroy the chemical | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
weapons of Syria. This place handles all kinds of hazardous stuff, but | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
soon there should be barrels from Damascus containing key ingredients | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
for the world's most dangerous nerve agents. A control room will monitor | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
the process. The Syrian chemicals will be treated like any industrial | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
waste. They are not weapons themselves, so-called precursors, | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
components about weapons and they will be fed into a giant incinerator | :18:28. | :18:35. | |
and burnt at 1150 Celsius. We accepted materials that are similar | :18:36. | :18:45. | |
over the last year. We take waste from the chemical sector and the | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
agrochemical sector. The chemicals brought here are standard industrial | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
products, and you need to mix them with something else to get a | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
chemical weapon. The real challenges that they are not here yet. Syria | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
was meant to have shipped out all of its chemicals by now. The whole is | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
way behind schedule. -- the whole programme. New footage shows the | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
extraordinary tension on a Norwegian ship as it approaches the Syrian | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
coast. This is the first we have seen of the nerve wracking task of | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
collecting chemicals from a war zone. This is something that never | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
been tried before, and so far, there have only been four deliveries. From | :19:23. | :19:30. | |
Syria's port, the chemicals are meant to be sent as far afield as | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
Germany, Finland as well as Britain. With an American ship specially | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
equipped to handle the most dangerous material, but only when | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
Syria releases all of its stockpile. We cannot afford any further delays. | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
What we have to see immediately is a pick-up in the tempo, and we have | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
two C regular, systematic predictable movement of the | :19:54. | :20:03. | |
chemicals -- we have two C. This is why chemical weapons matter. The | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
nerve agents are invisible, but potentially deadly. And their use in | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
Syria against civilians caused international outrage. So the | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
technology to destroy them is ready. Everyone is poised, but yet again, | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
Syria faces massive pressure to allow its chemicals to reach places | :20:21. | :20:22. | |
like this. The former News International Chief | :20:23. | :20:32. | |
Executive Rebekah Brooks has admitted paying public officials on | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
half a dozen occasions. She told the hacking trial at the Old Bailey that | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
she had sanctioned payments when she edited the News of the World and the | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
Sun newspaper, but denied knowing the name or position of the public | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
and officials involved. It's been another bad year for the RBS, the | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
bank which is mostly owned by the taxpayer has announced annual losses | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
of just over ?8 billion thanks to a combination of fines and | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
compensation payments. Five days after he was ousted as Ukraine's | :21:02. | :21:03. | |
former President, Viktor Yanukovych has resurfaced in Russia where he | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
has been granted protection. In a statement issued to Russian | :21:07. | :21:08. | |
television, he said he still considered himself Ukraine's | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
President. As the crisis deepens, military vehicles have been seen | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
today on the outskirts of the Crimean capital of Simferopol. It | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
comes after armed pro-Russia supporters stormed the regional | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
parliament there. Daniel Sandford is in Simferopol and has sent us this | :21:25. | :21:26. | |
report. This city is in Ukraine, but the | :21:27. | :21:39. | |
crowds were shouting for Russia today as they celebrated the | :21:40. | :21:41. | |
storming of the local parliament by men with guns. The building was | :21:42. | :21:48. | |
barricaded although MPs could come and go, and nobody knows who the | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
occupiers are. It shows how little control the new Ukrainian government | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
has in Crimea, peninsular in the south-east of the country. The | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
heavily armed men took over the parliament at about 4pm -- 4am this | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
morning. Witnesses say they were carrying rifles and rocket propelled | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
grenades. They forced their way in and throughout the police who had | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
been guarding the building. This morning's action by an armed group | :22:16. | :22:22. | |
is dangerous and irresponsible. I urge Russia not to take any action | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
that could escalate tension or create misunderstanding. But along | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
the border with Ukraine, Russia is conducting what it called military | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
preparedness exercises. The drills involved 150,000 men. Given the | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
Kremlin's particular interest in Crimea, which was historically a | :22:43. | :22:45. | |
Russian peninsulas, it has only exacerbated concerns in the West. We | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
expect other nations to respect the sovereignty of Ukraine and avoid | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
provocative actions. That is why I am closely watching the Russian | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
military exercises across the Ukrainian border. The alarm | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
increased when seven armoured personnel carriers, thought to be | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
Russian, briefly turned up on the outskirts of Simferopol, the city | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
where the occupied parliament is, although they were probably part of | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
a legitimate movement between bases. The new Ukrainian Prime Minister | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
begged other countries not to get involved militarily. My first | :23:20. | :23:27. | |
message, no boots on the ground. The Ukrainian Department of defence and | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
the Ukrainian Department of Homeland Security is capable of doing their | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
job. And we believe that we will definitely find a political | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
solution. Ukraine's deposed president Yacoub which -- President | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
Yanukovych has not been seen since Sunday night but he will give a | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
press conference in Russia tomorrow night, 70 miles from the Ukrainian | :23:52. | :23:52. | |
border. The captain of the Costa Concordia | :23:53. | :24:01. | |
cruise ship has returned to the vessel he was accused of abandoning | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
when it capsized in January of 2012 killing 32 people. His visit was | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
part of a court ordered inspection of the ship which still lies in the | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
shallows of the Italian island of Gio. The Football Association has | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
banned the West Bromwich Albion footballer, Nicholas Anelka, for | :24:20. | :24:21. | |
five matches for a a goal celebration that was judged to be | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
abusive and improper. Anelka has also been fined ?80,000 and ordered | :24:26. | :24:27. | |
to complete a compulsory education course. The player has a right of | :24:28. | :24:29. | |
appeal. Thousands of people lined the | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
streets of Preston today to mark the life of the footballer Sir Tom | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
Finney. He died two weeks ago, aged 91. Sir Tom won 76 England caps and | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
played his entire career at Preston North End. Our Sports Editor David | :24:45. | :24:45. | |
Bond reports. Even in his passing, Sir Tom Finney | :24:46. | :24:59. | |
can still draw a crowd. Arguably the greatest play England has ever | :25:00. | :25:01. | |
produced, he was devoted to this city. Today, Preston turned out to | :25:02. | :25:09. | |
say goodbye to its favourite son. Outside left Tom Finney makes it | :25:10. | :25:16. | |
1-0. A winger of rare talent, he played 76 times for England, scoring | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
30 goals. Nowadays he would been a multimillionaire. At Preston North | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
End, his only club, he earned ?14 per week. Those played with him for | :25:26. | :25:27. | |
England you exactly what he was worth. He was playing left wing and | :25:28. | :25:34. | |
I was in awe of him. He got the ball and took it to the dead ball line | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
and squared it back, and I could not miss. I could not miss, it was so | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
easy. And I thought, blimey, I could play with him every week. This was a | :25:43. | :25:49. | |
grand sendoff for such a humble man, and a very English service for | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
one of the country's finest. And they came from all over the game to | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
pay their respects. But this was never mournful, it was a celebration | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
of a player who seemed to unite football. He never won a | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
championship medal, he didn't win the cup winners medal, he won | :26:11. | :26:12. | |
something more important than that. He won the heart of his team-mates, | :26:13. | :26:20. | |
quite often his opponents, the supporters and of the nation. Many | :26:21. | :26:27. | |
footballers achieve fame, but few attain greatness. With Sir Tom | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
Finney's death, the game has not only lost one of its best, but the | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
link -- a link to its treasured past. Time for a look at the | :26:40. | :26:47. | |
weather. Here's Alex. Some wintry weather about. | :26:48. | :26:50. | |
Yes it's all been about the rain, but tonight 's ice across Northern | :26:51. | :26:57. | |
Ireland in south-west Scotland, and even a touch of snow over the hills | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
of Wales. There will be some snow in the showers across western | :27:02. | :27:04. | |
Scotland. The showers across England and Wales fade away to allow the | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
next system to arrive. Some snow over the hills of Wales, and the | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
winds could get lightly. The extreme south-west seeing gusts of 70 mph. | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
Further north, the winds are lighter which is why we might see a risk of | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
ice. In the south, staying above freezing, which is why at low levels | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
it will be mostly rain. There could be a bit of snow over the tops of | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
the Moors, particularly in parts of mid and South Wales. The Brecon | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
Beacons, the Black Mountains. The valley roads might be unpleasant in | :27:35. | :27:37. | |
the morning rush hour. A few flakes on the tops of the Cotswolds, and | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
maybe later across the Chilterns. But across East Anglia and the | :27:43. | :27:45. | |
south-east, maybe the wake but most people will see rain. A cold and wet | :27:46. | :27:51. | |
day. The rain will pull away from Wales and south-west England, skies | :27:52. | :27:53. | |
brightening though, and elsewhere there will be sunny spells, but some | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
showers for Northern Ireland and western Scotland. Temperatures | :27:59. | :28:00. | |
between six and eight degrees, but with the cold wind in the south it | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
will feel worse than that. Cold start to the weekend with a touch of | :28:05. | :28:10. | |
Frost, some ice and fog. Patchy rain clearing away from East Anglia and | :28:11. | :28:14. | |
the south-east. Some rain returning to the west later, but dry and | :28:15. | :28:21. | |
bright. On Saturday, highs of six up to nine Celsius. Similar on Sunday | :28:22. | :28:24. | |
with maybe patchy rain in the east, then rain returning to the west, but | :28:25. | :28:30. | |
again, in between, many places dry and bright. There could be ice and a | :28:31. | :28:33. | |
bit of snow on the hills of Wales tonight. | :28:34. | :28:35. |