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figure, but his death from a suspected heart attack, prompted | :00:13. | :00:19. | |
tributes from friend and foe. He was a guy who really fought for his | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
members and who stuck up for his point of view. Obviously, I didn't | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
always agree with with what he had to say. Even his enemies, the people | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
who never agreed with him when he was alive, I mean, Bob would be | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
laughing his head off probably that suddenly they are all finding these | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
great words about him. On the programme tonight: The Co-op in | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
crisis. Its boss resigns saying the company is "ungovernable". The | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
missing Malaysian airline, police say two men, travelling on false | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
passports, were probably asylum seekers, not terrorists. A dog's | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
dinner. Government plans to expand free school meals are a gimmick says | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
a former adviser. Tonight, a special report on Britain's economic | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
recovery. I'm at Liverpool docks. I will be asking if the UK can trade | :01:05. | :01:14. | |
its way to long lasting growth. And, they're off. The Cheltenham | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
Festival, the most valuable jump racing week in the world, gets | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
underway. On BBC London. The death of Bob Crow - as politicians unite | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
to pay tribute, we ask what the controversial union boss's legacy | :01:27. | :01:28. | |
will be. And, a policeman who repeatedly punched a suspected | :01:29. | :01:30. | |
shoplifter gets a community sentence. | :01:31. | :01:50. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. He was Britain's | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
best-known and most colourful trade union leader. Bob Crow has died of a | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
suspected heart attack at the age of 52. He led the RMT union for moren | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
that a decade and was involved in several high profile industrial | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
disputes, including the most recent which brought London Underground to | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
a standstill. Among the many people paying tributes to him today was | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
London's Mayor, Boris Johnson, with whom Crow often clashed. He praised | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
him as a fighter and aenen of character. And the veteran left-wing | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
MP, George Galloway, described him as a "a working class hero". Mail | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
mail mail mail looks back at the career of this controversial figure. | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
We want the opportunity to express the point of view... This was Bob | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
Crow just last month, at the height of the strike on London's Tube he | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
hijacked a radio phone in to take on his opponent Boris Johnson. There is | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
table to be sat round by you and your team. We can't do it while you | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
put a gun to your head. The two men hadn't spoken in years. Today | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
London's Mayor led tributes. Obviously, I didn't always agree | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
with what he had to say, but I really will say this, I think that | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
together with other union members, Bob Crow unquestionably helped to | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
drive forward huge progress on London Underground and he leaves a | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
massive legacy behind. Even his enemies, the people who never agreed | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
with him when he was alive, Bob will be laughing his head off probably | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
that suddenly they are finding these great words about him. Everyone | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
knows he was incredibly good at the job he was employed to do. He | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
believed in fighting for working people. He was passionate about it. | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
Bob Crow was born at East London he left school at 16 to work on the | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
railways. He soon rose through the union ranks. I was told we don't | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
want to go back to the bad old days of the 70s. I raised question, what | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
was wrong with them They called himself a communist socialist. As | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
leader of the RMT he ended the union's affiliation to the Labour | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
Party. A divisive trade union leader he embarked on a serious of | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
industrial disputes. His actions disrupted the journeys of millions | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
of people. He stood for what he believed in. Which is good to a | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
certain degree. It did have an effect on London. It's awful that | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
somebody who was so committed and so passionate about his work that it's | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
kind of ended in such a tragic way really. Despite his 145,000 pay | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
package, Bob Crow insisted upon living in a council house. He | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
increased the membership of his union at a time when nationally | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
union membership was in decline. He was one of the finest trade unionist | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
of his generation. One of the best the movement ever brought forward. | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
That is why he was loved by his members but respected by those who | :04:53. | :04:54. | |
esht intoed across the table with him. Often larger than life, Bob | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
Crow died at 52. He will be remember as a trade unionist who never | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
waivered from his beliefs and delivered for his members. To be a | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
general secretary of a union you have to be larger than life. Someone | :05:13. | :05:20. | |
who has a bit of spark about them. Industry correspondent, John Moylan, | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
BBC News. Our political editor, Nick Robinson joins me now. Huge shock | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
when the news broke this morning. So many tributes for him from all | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
sides. A shock for some people watching that those Bob Crow would | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
have seen as his enemies have been so generous to imhad. It's more than | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
the normal respect that one pays to the loved ones who are now grieving | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
for Bob Crow. I think there are people who were his enemies who | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
nevertheless regarded him as a man who knew what he thought, knew whose | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
side he was on. Knew who his enemies were. That is quite rare in modern | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
political life. He was, if you like, his own man. I discovered this when | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
I interviewed him on television on the first time. He turned up in a | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
T-shirt and a pair of shorts. I said, Bob maybe you would like to | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
get change? He said, I'm on the works outing to the seaside in 10 | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
minutes' time. Get on with it. We started the interview on Bob's | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
terms. In a sense, that sums him up. He was a man who, yes, was | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
belligerent in public, yes, willing to inconvenience people, he thought | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
he was it for the job he was paid to do, for his members. Everyone you | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
talked talk to behind scenes say behind all that noise there was a | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
man who could in truth strike a private deal. Nick Robinson, thank | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
you. The Co-operative Group which is facing huge losseses, is in crisis | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
tonight after its chief executive resigned claiming the organisation | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
had become "ungovernable". Euan Sutherland, whose | :06:52. | :06:53. | |
multi-million-pound salary was leaked at the weekend, has | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
complained of being undermined in his efforts to overhaul the | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
business. Here's our Business Editor, Robert Peston. Some very | :07:01. | :07:08. | |
grave look gentleman. The pioneers and the founders of the modern | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
co-operative movement or the idea of a business owned by those who use it | :07:14. | :07:21. | |
is fairer. How far they have have come from those or begins. I'm the | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
group chief executive of the Co-op. He was the chief executive until | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
this afternoon when he resigned. Handing back ?1.5 million retention | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
bonus. It was pretty clear on Sunday that Euan Sutherland had become | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
demoralised. He published this statement on a social media website | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
in which he bemoaned the leek of his ?3 million pay package he saw the | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
leak by the officials of the Co-op to whip up opposition to a reform | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
package that would have given less power to them, and more power to the | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
executives and Euan Sutherland. It's not been a quiet time for the Co-op. | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
It's bank almost went bust last year. The bank's former Chairman was | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
accused of buying illegal recreational drugs. What doo-doo | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
they make of the latest episode in which many would see as a soap | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
opera? Millions of pounds to top dogs. Defeating the object of the | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
Co-op. They were known for their integrity for so many years, weren't | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
they? Whether that is too difficult to maintain in today's cynical | :08:32. | :08:41. | |
times. He wanted a management structure. The he felt that the | :08:42. | :08:43. | |
absence of professional management from the Co-op's top board was | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
holding back recovery. He made the judgment he is not the right person | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
to lead the changes that the group need moving forward. In my view, | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
there is a clear consensus now there is a need for that kind of change. | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
That will start from the board level and will see what emerges over the | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
next few months. Why does the Co-op matter? It has been a bad year for | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
the Co-operative Group and the Co-op Bank. There is so much that is so | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
good about having a mutual, an organisation owned by its members | :09:13. | :09:20. | |
with an ethical stance. Not much looked like it will would rattle | :09:21. | :09:35. | |
this lot. If it isn't seen to be governable. Two men who boreded the | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
missing Malaysian Airlines plane using stolen passports were probably | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
Iranian asylum seekers, not terrorist, according to | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
investigators. #. The flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing vanished | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
four days ago. The search area's been widen to the waters between | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
Malaysian and Vietnam and into the ma lack can straits -- Malacca | :10:00. | :10:07. | |
Straits. But the mystery has intensified after Malaysian's air | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
force said it as radar suggests the plane had turned away from from its | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
planned route towards an airport near Kuala Lumpur. From there | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
Jonathan Head reports. They have been forced to consider a | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
possibility that the airline deviated hundreds of miles off | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
course without being detected. The search area has been doubled. One | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
mystery has been solved, the identities of the two men travelling | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
on stolen passports, both Iranianians, has been disclosed, any | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
links to terrorism dismissed. In the last 24-hours you see the story | :10:42. | :10:48. | |
changing as the belief becomes more certain that these two individuals | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
were probably not terrorists. Mohammad is a young Iranian living | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
in Kuala Lumpur. He is asked to keep his identity hidden. The two men, | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
one an old school friend, came to stay the night before they left. | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
They had flown from Iran and were heading to Europe to seek asylum. He | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
helped them to print out their tickets. We went together to the | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
print shop. We print the ticket. After that, I see the ticket and I | :11:16. | :11:23. | |
say, like, this is not your name. Then he said, like, here auto I have | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
another passport. After that I don't want to continue this story. I just | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
say, OK. There any possibility, in his mind, that his friend could have | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
had anything to do with the plane's disappearance? He cannot even kill | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
one animal. He was looking for freedom. He was looking for better | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
life. He wanted to, like, live in freedom. So all those fears that the | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
stolen passports had perhaps been used by terrorists to board the | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
ill-fated airliner have ended here in an ordinary Kuala Lumpur suburb | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
and with a simple tale of young men from a troubled country, in search | :12:04. | :12:11. | |
of something better. The Bank of England governor, Mark Carney, says | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
he knew nothing about claims that bank staff had been tipped off about | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
a suspected scam to rig the foreign currency markets until autumn last | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
year. Mr Carney told MPs on the Commons Treasury Committee that the | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
Bank had suspended a member of staff pending an investigation but | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
insisted there was no evidence bank staff had been involved in the | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
alleged scam. As we sit here today, we are not in possession of any | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
information, we have no information, that suggests that anyone at the | :12:40. | :12:46. | |
Bank of England condoned, manipulation market facilitated, | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
participated in market manipulation. The Mark Carney. The idea of | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
expanding free school meals to every five-year-old in England is one of | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
the Deputy Prime Minister's flagship policies. It has been condemned as | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
"bad gimmick and a dumb idea" by a Government education expert, Dominic | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
Cummings, a former special adviser, told the BBC that officials were | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
opposed to the policy fearing it would lead to "institutional chaos." | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
Our political correspondent, Ben Wright, reports. Serving up a | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
signature Liberal Democrat policy last September. Nick Clegg announced | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
all five to seven-year-olds in England would get a free school meal | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
from this autumn. ?1 billion will be spent on the food and new | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
facilities. The scheme has received a hammering from a former | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
Conservative adviser at the Department for Education. Dominic | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
Cummings told the BBC that officials at the department warned there could | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
be implementation chaos. He said all the spending figures banded about | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
were chunk and shouldn't be used. He thought the policy was a dumb idea, | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
badly executed. The adviser worked for the Education Secretary, Michael | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
Goef, until Christmas, there was a coalition argument over funding when | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
the policy was announced. One senior Conservative MP still has concerns. | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
However good his incontigencieses -- intentions it's inappropriate he | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
should make a ?1 billion spending commitment without having consulted | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
the responsible department or listened to schools who have to | :14:14. | :14:20. | |
implement it on the ground. At this London school gate parents have an | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
appetite for the policy. If they can get one decent meal a day, it's | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
going to help. I think the idea is really good. It will be really | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
healthy food, isn't it. That is the most important thing, right? Free | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
food seems popular with parents. A number of head teachers worry they | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
won't have the kitchen facilities and longer dinner time might disrupt | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
the school day. The ministers have rubbished this talk about a row | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
within the Education Department and say the free school dinners will be | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
delivered on time. The suggestion that the department was opposed to | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
this policy is complete and utter nonsense. The Secretary of State and | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
I may be in different political parties we are fully behind the | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
policy. It has been very carefully thought out and costed. Ministers | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
have given more support to schools to make the poll sil work. The | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
Liberal Democrats are determined to chalk it up as a win and proof of | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
their influence in Government. Bob Crow has died suddenly of a | :15:19. | :15:30. | |
suspected heart attack at the age of 52. Coming up, I will have the news | :15:31. | :15:38. | |
from Charlton in on a challenging day for horse racing. -- Cheltenham. | :15:39. | :15:45. | |
Later on BBC London: We hear from the brother of Britain's first | :15:46. | :15:47. | |
suicide bomber in Syria, who claims he died a hero. | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
And Arsenal's mission impossible in Munich - or is it? We hear from | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
Arsene Wenger on his Champions League survival bid. | :15:54. | :16:04. | |
Next week the Chancellor will deliver his penultimate budget | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
before the 2015 general election. George Osborne will no doubt point | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
to the positive direction the UK economy has taken recently, with | :16:12. | :16:13. | |
unemployment down and economic output picking up. This week George | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
Alagiah is travelling around the UK trying to find out if we really are | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
on the right road to recovery. He started his journey yesterday in | :16:20. | :16:30. | |
Glasgow. Tonight he's on Merseyside. Good evening from the Port of | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
Liverpool, one of the biggest in the UK. I want you to look over there at | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
that container ship. It has just pulled away and it has got 2000 | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
containers on it and deck full of luxury cars. It is heading for | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
Baltimore. Once it has gone, look over here - hundreds of containers | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
waiting to be put onto the next ship. I can tell you it is 24/7 | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
here. If Britain is exporting its way out of economic trouble, they | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
will see it here first. I have been talking to businesses in Liverpool | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
to find out if Britain has the right kind of recovery. | :17:10. | :17:18. | |
They have certainly had to work hard to keep the tourists coming to this | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
theme to tell over the last few years. But now business is picking | :17:26. | :17:33. | |
up again. -- this seemed hotel. We are looking at 80% occupancy. It is | :17:34. | :17:41. | |
way higher than last year. Are there more British tourists? We have | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
definitely seen a rise. If the guests are anything to go by, some | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
people are feeling more optimistic. They are spending again. We're both | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
earning decent money so we don't have any problems. Initially we | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
didn't have the spare cash. But now I think there's a bit more leeway. | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
In the 60s, when the Beatles were in their heyday, Liverpool was still | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
one of the world's great trading hubs. Today, the port is not quite | :18:14. | :18:21. | |
the powerhouse it once was, but there is ?300 million of new | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
investment in its facilities and exports are growing. Sale to North | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
America have doubled since the worst of the recession. The Port's | :18:29. | :18:35. | |
director says this is the perfect place to track the UK's economic | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
fortunes. These range Rovers are headed for America. The majority of | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
the vessels arriving in Liverpool, the containers, they are leaving | :18:47. | :18:55. | |
full. We are seeing a number of products and services now exported | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
out of the country. This factory making maritime safety equipment is | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
just a mile away from the port. Turnover has been growing. Its boss | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
says any future growth has to come from new export markets. The more we | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
export, the better the UK economy will grow. I find it hugely | :19:15. | :19:23. | |
important for us as a company, and we know that we have markets yet to | :19:24. | :19:31. | |
crack. That is great news. We can actually see where we can fuel our | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
growth going forward. This is a city built on a great trading history, | :19:37. | :19:43. | |
but whether or not it can achieve anything like the same status in the | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
future is a key test for Britain's economy. That is the view from | :19:49. | :19:56. | |
Liverpool. As you saw, many people here are pretty optimistic. But what | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
about the bigger picture from across the UK? Just how widespread is the | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
recovery and how sustainable is it? Our chief economic correspondent, | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
Hugh Pym, reports from adjuster. The economy might be picking up | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
speed, but what about the direction of travel? Is the courage to | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
lopsided? These are questions for the government ahead of the budget. | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
I think we are making progress. Jim O'Neill is heading a task force | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
trying to ensure growth is spread beyond London, including in his home | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
city of Manchester. The premise is, if we can boost growth in places | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
like this and a few other urban centres, it will boost the national | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
growth rate. But he says the overall recovery is not yet broadly based. | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
So far, the recovery has been dominated by the consumer. We can't | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
afford that to go beyond much more than another year or so all we will | :20:57. | :21:04. | |
run into fresh problems. Shifting the focus to company is expanding | :21:05. | :21:06. | |
and selling more goods abroad is seen as the way forward. Breadth of | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
the Chancellor and a Bank of England have acknowledged the recovery is | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
not yet balanced. The figures bear that out. Last in household spending | :21:16. | :21:22. | |
grew 2.4%, while exports were up just 0.8. Across the whole of 2013, | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
business investment fell 1.2%. But there was some pick up towards the | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
end of the year. But you have only got to go to Manchester airport to | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
find a project which 60 investment and export boxes. Known as airport | :21:36. | :21:42. | |
city, it will be the UK's biggest construction site, creating a centre | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
for businesses. We're looking for good road access. We are looking for | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
vehicle activity, which we have across Europe. So there are | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
promising signs. But it may be awhile before it clear that are | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
broadly based economy heralding a brighter future for the economy is | :22:03. | :22:10. | |
fully in place. That's it from us here in Liverpool. | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
When people talk about recurrent, most people are talking really about | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
jobs. Right now in the North West, it has a higher unemployment rate | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
than the UK average. Tomorrow we are in Bristol stop -- in Bristol. We'll | :22:24. | :22:32. | |
be at the UK's biggest robotics research centre. Goodnight from me. | :22:33. | :22:41. | |
Back to you in London, Sophie. A policeman who punched a suspected | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
shoplifter in the head and pinned her to the ground has been sentenced | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
to a community order. CCTV footage played to the court showed PC James | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
Kiddie pushing Sarah Reed into a chair, grabbing her by the hair and | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
hitting her on the head as she lay on the floor after an incident at a | :22:56. | :23:10. | |
clothing store in London. MPs are currently debating changes | :23:11. | :23:12. | |
to legislation that would give the government new powers to close and | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
reorganise NHS services in England. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt says | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
the changes are needed to help reform services and improve patient | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
care. But patients groups and Labour are concerned the reforms could give | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
the government the ability to ignore the wishes of GPs and local | :23:25. | :23:26. | |
residents. Here's our health correspondent, Branwen Jeffreys. | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
Outside Parliament today, a noisy protest under gloomy skies. | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
Campaigners are angry at plans to make it easier to close NHS | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
services, a change in the law that follows the fight over one hospital. | :23:41. | :23:52. | |
This song came from the heart of a community campaign to keep its A | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
Lewisham in south London, was angry at the changes. The of neighbouring | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
hospital plunging into financial problems. A special Administration | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
was appointed to make rapid decisions. Local GPs helped win the | :24:07. | :24:15. | |
legal battle, but have been left disillusioned. We were promised we | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
would be listened to. We made good arguments and we were not listened | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
to. Nothing changed as the basis -- after our argument. Now the | :24:26. | :24:32. | |
government wants to change the law that allowed the campaign to win. | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
Services here in Lewisham are now safe from change. But around | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
England, the NHS faces more difficult decisions about the future | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
of hospital services. The debate is about how those decisions should be | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
made and whether it is ever right to overrule the wishes of local | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
patients and their GPs. Ministers today promised there would always be | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
consultation and save these legal powers are for extreme cases. This | :25:02. | :25:08. | |
is a system of last resort and other actions would of course be taken | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
first to address the problems of trusts in difficulty. But Labour | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
warned... It risks damaging public trust rather than building it. | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
Changes to the NHS will always be a political battle ground. But winning | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
patient support is crucial to allow them to happen. | :25:28. | :25:34. | |
It's the most valuable jump racing week in the world. The Cheltenham | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
Festival got underway this afternoon, with ?4 million of prize | :25:38. | :25:40. | |
money up for grabs. The big race of the day was the Champion Hurdle. Joe | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
Wilson was watching. If we wanted a reminder of the way | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
the jump racing pushes horse and rider to the limit and the risks and | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
danger at the heart of the spectre, we got it today but it was not come | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
above. We saw a fatality as well as victory. The Champion hurdle was the | :26:00. | :26:06. | |
most eagerly anticipated race of this year's Festival. Billed as a | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
battle between the old champion, Hurricane Fly, and a new breed of | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
contenders. One of those was of course both popular and full of | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
potential. Watch for the yellow silks. It was an awful. The horse | :26:21. | :26:27. | |
was treated but had a spinal injury and was put down. For some, the rest | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
of the race was irrelevant. Jezki, with Google perseverance, crossed | :26:34. | :26:40. | |
the line first. It is why riders and spectators had to come to | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
Cheltenham. It is sad for the jockey, the owner, and everybody in | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
the yard. When a horse dies, it is a gap in the yard. Everybody feels | :26:51. | :26:58. | |
it. The high risks in this sport are shared between horse and rider. In | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
fact, all of this horse's winnings this season had been pledged to JT | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
McNamara. He remains in hospital, paralysed after a fall at Cheltenham | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
last year. Absent but admired. This is his cousin, the jockey still | :27:16. | :27:22. | |
recovering after his own fall. Last year he was in a coma. Whatever the | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
dangers, he would beginning -- giving anything to race at | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
Cheltenham this week. It is believable to get out on a horse at | :27:34. | :27:40. | |
that crowd. It would be good to stop for moment or two and think about | :27:41. | :27:47. | |
people like that. So often, any sense of celebration is tempered by | :27:48. | :27:53. | |
reflection. Time for a look at the weather. | :27:54. | :27:55. | |
reflection. Time for a look Dry and sunny for most of us today. | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
In the sunshine, it warmed up after a frosty start. We reached 15 | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
degrees across the Highlands of Scotland and most of us enjoyed a | :28:05. | :28:08. | |
lovely spring day. However, across some Southern counties, we really | :28:09. | :28:15. | |
struggled. Just five degrees on the moors of south-west England. Still | :28:16. | :28:19. | |
some cloud in southern counties. Overnight it will tend to expand, if | :28:20. | :28:24. | |
anything. There will be fog patches developing across Northern Ireland, | :28:25. | :28:28. | |
and some glens of Scotland. It will turn cold. Under the cleaner to | :28:29. | :28:31. | |
skies, temperatures will fall away quickly. -- the clearest skies. | :28:32. | :28:39. | |
Close to freezing if the skies clear but generally a of cloud around. -- | :28:40. | :28:47. | |
a lot. It is getting better in southern areas. It will be a better | :28:48. | :28:51. | |
day than today. In the sunshine from it will feel warmer. They will be a | :28:52. | :28:55. | |
few exceptions before the vast majority have a lovely day. Some of | :28:56. | :28:59. | |
these numbers might be conservative. I would not be surprised to see the | :29:00. | :29:04. | |
mid-teens. If the cloud persists in the north west midlands come it will | :29:05. | :29:07. | |
stay cool. The south-west of England, we could reach 17 or 18 | :29:08. | :29:13. | |
degrees. In the 10th St, we might see some sea mist lingering. That | :29:14. | :29:19. | |
could knock temperatures. -- along the Thames estuary. The fog should | :29:20. | :29:23. | |
lift and for most of us it will be a nice day. Signs of change in the | :29:24. | :29:28. | |
North West of Scotland. Beginning cloud and a freshening pleased -- | :29:29. | :29:31. | |
breeze. | :29:32. | :29:33. |