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The publicist Max Clifford is jailed for eight years for sexual assaults | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
against teenage girls and women in the 70s and 80s. One last moment in | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
the spotlight. Max Clifford was criticised by the judge for showing | :00:15. | :00:16. | |
no remorse, just contemptuous behaviour in front of his victims. | :00:17. | :00:28. | |
When I think of him, he makes me shudder and he makes me feel ill. So | :00:29. | :00:36. | |
relieved, and so pleased that justice has been done. | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
And tonight the BBC has learned that more alleged victims have come | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
forward during the trial. Also tonight: | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
Heavy gunfire in eastern Ukraine, as pro-Russian rebels shot down two | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
army helicopters during a government offensive. | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
As tension grows, Britain sends troops for a training exercise in | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
the Baltics. Sinn Fein say police have asked for | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
more time to question their leader, Gerry Adams, in connection with the | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
IRA murder of Jean McConville in 1972. | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
And the biggest ever survey health and lifestyles, to try to improve | :01:07. | :01:07. | |
the lives of future generations. The Bank of England warns that the | :01:08. | :01:17. | |
recent surge in house prices could end in a crash. | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
16 months in jail for the judge who lied to police, but criticism that | :01:22. | :01:22. | |
the sentence is racist. Good evening and welcome to the BBC | :01:23. | :01:46. | |
News at Six. The celebrity publicist Max Clifford | :01:47. | :01:48. | |
is beginning an eight-year jail sentence tonight for a string of | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
indecent assaults against young girls and women in the 1970s and | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
80s. Sentencing him, the judge told Max Clifford that his position in | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
the entertainment world had meant that both he and his victims had | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
thought he was untouchable. Our home affairs correspondent, June Kelly | :02:05. | :02:05. | |
reports on a very public downfall. He arrived at court to face the | :02:06. | :02:19. | |
usual media scrum, but today he knew that while he was walking in, he | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
wouldn't be walking out. Max Clifford's whole career has been | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
built on the media. Knowing he would be out of the spotlight for some | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
time, he posed for the cameras for almost five minutes. No real | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
comment, no apology to his victims, but there was a smile. The court was | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
full. And at the side of the dock, watching Max Clifford, some of the | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
women he had abused and assaulted. They were in tears as the eight year | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
sentence was handed down. Judge Anthony Leonard said of the | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
offences, the reason they were not brought to light sooner is because | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
of your dominant character and your position in the world of | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
entertainment, which meant your victims thought you were | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
untouchable, something I judge that you, too, believed and traded upon. | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
One of his youngest victims was 15, a child, when he groomed and abused | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
her. I became very fearful of men and had some very difficult | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
relationships because of that. I didn't really trust anybody. When I | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
was seeing him on the television speaking to millions of people, | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
telling them he was innocent, I did think, no one is going to believe | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
me. Max Clifford was this thing Ghalib of public relations, exposing | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
other people's sex secrets, like an affair with England manager Sven | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
Goran Eriksson, and David Mellor's relationship with a woman which | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
ended his ministerial career. After the Jimmy Savile scandal blew up, | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
Clifford claimed celebrities were approaching him, fearful for their | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
reputations. They have come to me for advice and guidance, because | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
they say, if you suddenly hear our names, would you be kind enough to | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
let us know. Weeks later, he was arrested. It is not fun, standing | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
there being accused of being a fantasist and a liar. Even during | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
the trial, he continued to play for the cameras. Today, the judge | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
condemned this performance for trivialising the events. Scotland | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
Yard released this mugshot. He is the first person convicted under | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
Operation Yewtree. Nobody is above the law, and it does not matter when | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
things happen, we will prosecute when we have the evidence to do so. | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
The man used to travelling in his Bentley left court in a prison van. | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
Max Clifford, protector and destroyer of reputations, brought | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
down by a group of women he once controlled. They took control and | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
refused to remain silent. And June is at Southwark Crown Court | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
for us now. A tremendous fall from grace for Max Clifford and more | :05:01. | :05:09. | |
complainants coming forward tonight. Yes, more complainants have come | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
forward and police and prosecutors are now deciding how to proceed. | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
Now, Max Clifford was sentenced under the penalties and the | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
legislation which were in place when he committed the offences. If he had | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
been sentenced under current legislation, he would have faced a | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
far harsher jail term. Because of that, the judge said he was | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
maximising the sentence he was imposing. Also, under current | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
legislation, some of these offences he has been convicted of would today | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
be classed as rape. Ukraine says pro-Russian groups have | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
suffered what it called heavy losses during a government operation in a | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
rebel held city in eastern Ukraine. The acting president says two | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
Ukrainian soldiers were also killed and two government helicopters shot | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
down. Ukrainian forces are reported to have taken control of a number of | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
checkpoints around the city of Sloviansk, but the centre still | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
appears to be in the hands of the rebels. President Obama says he's | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
watching events in Ukraine with deep concern. Our special correspondent | :06:08. | :06:19. | |
Fergal Keane is in Donetsk. All day long, government forces have | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
been battling rebels in the city of Sloviansk. As ever, there has been a | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
welter of claim and counterclaim. The government says it has killed, | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
injured or arrested large numbers of rebels but we have no independent | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
confirmation of that. What we know for certain is that this is a day | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
when the state tried to reimpose its will on the rebellious East. | :06:41. | :06:49. | |
This was the answer from the rebels to the government offensive, | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
missiles that downed helicopter is. These were the instruments of state | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
power. Two were brought crashing to the ground, two pilots killed. | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
Here, a wounded crew member is helped by the rebels who captured | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
him. It was an image that seemed to define a day in which the government | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
yet again struggled in the face of determined opposition. The militants | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
had been waiting for some move by the state. This, the masked face of | :07:20. | :07:27. | |
a well-prepared insurgency. Don't stand behind me, he warns. Here, | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
petrol bombs being prepared. Ammunition brought forward. And a | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
promise of fire down the road any soldiers might come. But it was here | :07:38. | :07:45. | |
on this bridge that Ukraine's army was confronted by its own citizens. | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
Helicopters deployed troops onto this strategic crossing six miles | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
from Sloviansk. But the people refused to allow them across. Firing | :07:58. | :08:05. | |
in the air, they tried to push on, but it simply increased the emotion. | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
This elderly man was but it simply increased the emotion. | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
shock. But as the stalemate on the bridge deepened, we found a mood | :08:16. | :08:25. | |
shock. But as the stalemate on the defiance. I am prepared to take the | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
gun, if need, for my land, you understand me. The soldiers were | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
nervous, far from Kiev and the government that is giving them | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
orders. You don't seem to control very much here. What is happening? | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
Pointing to the protesters, he told us, they are for Putin. The | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
atmosphere on the bridge remains very tense. There is no obvious | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
appetite for confrontation on the part of the troops but there is a | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
great deal of anger among the pro-Russian demonstrators. Neither | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
side knows where the military escalation is leading. Fergal | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
Keane, BBC News, outside Sloviansk. In response to the crisis in | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
Ukraine, Britain has joined with other NATO countries to provide | :09:11. | :09:12. | |
extra security for Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania. The Baltic states, | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
all close to Russia, have no fighter aircraft. For years they've been | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
dependent on the alliance for protection. Four RAF Typhoon | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
fighters are part of a NATO force of 20 jets now guarding the Baltics. | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
Today 100 British troops arrived in Estonia for a training exercise with | :09:28. | :09:29. | |
that country's defence forces, along with the Defence Secretary Philip | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
Hammond. Our defence correspondent Jonathan | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
Beale was travelling with him and sent this report. | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
These aren't the first British troops to ever step foot here, but | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
they are the first to arrive in eastern Europe since the crisis in | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
Ukraine began. And they are being met with open arms. Estonia, like | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
Ukraine, was once a Soviet satellite state. They are nervous and they | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
want reassurance. We sense that Estonia is not alone and our allies | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
will be with us in the end. And that is important? I think it is always | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
important. It is going to be another exercise, I think. Should the | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
Russians be worried? I doubt it. We have nothing to do with them. We | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
just work on the conscripts with the Estonians. But the welcoming | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
committee and the presence of the Defence Secretary suggests this is | :10:22. | :10:23. | |
more than just training, although they are just a few compared with | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
the thousands of Western troops positioned in Europe during the Cold | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
War. And few when compared to the massive Russian military build up, | :10:34. | :10:35. | |
here doing their own training on Ukraine's eastern border. NATO has | :10:36. | :10:44. | |
stepped up its air patrols of it eastern borders. Four RAF Typhoons, | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
the latest warplanes to arrive in the Baltics, ready to intercept | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
Russian bombers, as they did just one week ago off northern Scotland. | :10:52. | :10:59. | |
But there is no desire for conflict, only to stop the instability | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
spreading. We are all worried about what's happening in the Ukraine. And | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
the point of our reinforcement of Baltic air policing and our dispatch | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
of additional troops to exercises in Estonia is to make clear that we | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
will stand by our commitments to NATO and allies. Britain and NATO | :11:15. | :11:25. | |
say this is about reassurance, not provocation. But it's difficult to | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
see how this increased military presence will calm rising tensions. | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
This military build up is not on the same scale as the Cold War era, but | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
it does have worrying echoes of the past. And no one knows how this will | :11:40. | :11:48. | |
end. Jonathan Beale, BBC News. A part-time judge has been jailed | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
for 16 months for lying to police investigating the Chris Huhne | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
speeding points scandal. Barrister Constance Briscoe was convicted of | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
three counts of perverting the course of justice after an inquiry | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
into how former Cabinet minister Mr Huhne passed speeding points to his | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
then wife Vicky Pryce a decade ago. Sentencing her, the judge said the | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
three had shown an "arrogance" in thinking that respect for the law | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
was for others. Sinn Fein says police in Northern | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
Ireland are asking a judge for more time to question their leader, Gerry | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
Adams, in connection with one of the most notorious murders during the | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
Troubles. Jean McConville, a mother of ten, was shot by the IRA in 1972. | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
Mr Adams, who denies any involvement, voluntarily presented | :12:32. | :12:33. | |
himself for questioning in Antrim on Wednesday. Our Ireland | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
correspondent, Chris Buckler reports. | :12:38. | :12:46. | |
A leading politician and a man who has been stated as a peacemaker, but | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
Gerry Adams has been in police custody, under questioning, four | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
hours, about a murder committed in 1972. Jean McConville's family say | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
the time since her killing has gone anything but quickly for them. | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
People like me are left living the life we live because we can't move | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
on because of what happened. Helen is just one of Jean McConville's ten | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
children. She is pictured with her mother, in the only photograph that | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
still exists of a woman murdered by the IRA, a widow dragged out of her | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
home and killed in secret, leaving her family without a parent. Gerry | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
Adams has all was denied being involved in the murder, but Helen | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
has been vocal in her belief that he was. What I feel about him, he is | :13:35. | :13:44. | |
now a top politician and he thinks he is God, really, untouchable. But | :13:45. | :13:52. | |
if he is not charged today with the murder of my mother, I'm hoping to | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
take civil action. Gerry Adams' arrest has made international | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
headlines. In his years as a politician he has shared the | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
spotlight with world leaders. Among the allegations he is being | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
questioned about our claims made by the late IRA commander Brendan | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
Hughes, recorded by researchers from Boston College. There is only one | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
man who gave the order for that woman to be executed. That man is | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
now the head of Sinn Fein. The decision to arrest a leading | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
politician was always going to be controversial, particularly in | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
Northern Ireland, a place where the relationship between policing and | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
politics can be fraught. It is now known that David Cameron has spoken | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
to both Northern Ireland's first and Deputy First Minister while Mr Adams | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
has been in custody. The Prime Minister and I appreciate the | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
sensitivity and seriousness of this situation, which is why he was | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
engaging with the first and Deputy First Minister. But Sinn Fein anger | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
at the arrest and the police ahead of elections across the island of | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
Ireland could not be more obvious. There is a group in the PSNI who | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
have a different agenda. And it is a negative and destructive agenda to | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
both the peace process and to Sinn Fein. Detectives say they have a | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
duty to investigate the murder of a woman who was one of the | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
disappeared, evil ab ducted and killed in secret, past crimes that | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
can't be forgotten. Our top story this evening: The | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
publicist Max Clifford is jailed for eight years for sexual assaults | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
against teenage girls and women. And still to come: half a million | :15:31. | :15:38. | |
people's DNA samples are stored And still to come: half a million | :15:39. | :15:45. | |
in trays like this at -80 degrees. We go inside the fridge that could | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
help improve the health of future generations. | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
On BBC London: The award-winning head teacher who faces a ban after | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
spending school money on herself. And a tense weekend for Millwall | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
fans as the club fights to avoid relegation. | :15:59. | :16:17. | |
Now, should the Government have more powers to get involved when British | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
companies face foreign takeover bids? The American firm Pfizer has | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
tried to create one of the world's biggest companies by making yet | :16:25. | :16:26. | |
another multi-billion pound bid for the British pharmaceutical firm | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
AstraZeneca. It's been rejected for now. But critics fear that if | :16:30. | :16:31. | |
they're ultimately successful, it could mean big job cuts in the UK | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
and dent the influence of Britain's science sector. Our business editor | :16:36. | :16:43. | |
Kamal Ahmed reports. It is more compact than courtship. | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
Two giants circling each other wondering who will conduct the | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
winner. Today Pfizer was rebuffed for the second time. Many predict it | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
will be back with another offer. With thousands of jobs at stake, | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
this is far more than a simple business deal. My job is to protect | :17:02. | :17:08. | |
the UK's interest. I want to see great science in Britain and great | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
medicines delivered and great jobs in these industries in Britain. That | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
is why we have sought and received robust assurances from cork if a | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
deal were to go ahead. -- from Pfizer. Pfizer employs 70,000 people | :17:25. | :17:31. | |
around the world including 2500 in the UK. It has sales of ?31 billion | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
last year. AstraZeneca employs 50,000 people including over 6000 in | :17:39. | :17:46. | |
the UK. Together, they would become the biggest drugs company in the | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
world. I am at AstraZeneca's headquarters in London. They occupy | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
the top three floors of this building. These businesses | :17:56. | :17:57. | |
manufacture businesses of building. These businesses | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
worth of drugs for millions of patients every year, from headache | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
tablets to cancer treatments. AstraZeneca alone accounts for a 2% | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
of all goods exported from the UK. That is why the deal is so important | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
politically. Critics say Pfizer's previous takeover deals have led to | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
cost cutting. We have a British company being turned around with | :18:21. | :18:27. | |
good drugs coming along and an attempted takeover by a company | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
takeovers and then stripping out the takeovers and then stripping out the | :18:31. | :18:39. | |
stripping deal intellectual -- the intellectual property. Pfizer | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
pledged to the Prime Minister that manufacturing jobs would stay in the | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
UK. It was only last week that the Chancellor was in Cambridge where | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
AstraZeneca plans to build its new headquarters. He was speaking about | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
the importance of science research to the UK. The Treasury will | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
certainly put any new offer to close examination. | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
Two schoolgirls have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
murder following an incident at a school in Caerphilly in South Wales. | :19:13. | :19:19. | |
The teenagers aged 14 and 15 were arrested at a school yesterday | :19:20. | :19:21. | |
following concerns about their behaviour. Our Wales correspondent | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
Hywel Griffith has been following the story and joins us now. Hywel, | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
what more can you tell us? I understand the officers were called | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
to Cwmcarn High School yesterday because of concern over two of its | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
pupils. The girls were arrested on school grounds and questioned. The | :19:41. | :19:48. | |
15-year-old was questioned about threats to kill. The 14-year-old was | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
also questioned on the same potential charge. The police | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
stressed no harm was caused and no confrontation took place. We | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
understand the potential target was to be a teacher at the school. Today | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
in a letter to parents, the headteacher has stressed Cwmcarn | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
High School is a safe environment for pupils. Teaching unions have | :20:14. | :20:21. | |
told us their members at the school have been shocked and concerned by | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
the incident. It comes at the end of the week which saw a teacher lose | :20:26. | :20:32. | |
her life in Leeds. The pupils have been bailed pending further | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
investigations. David Cameron has launched the | :20:37. | :20:37. | |
Conservatives' local election campaign, emphasising what he called | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
the great British recovery which he said would be put at risk by voting | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
for other parties. With the European elections at the same time, he used | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
the launch to re-affirm the Tories' commitment to offering an in-out | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
referendum of EU membership. Our deputy political editor James | :20:52. | :21:00. | |
Landale reports. David Cameron says that a great | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
British revival is taking place in warehouses like this up and down the | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
country. There are new jobs and investment that he says only the | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
Conservatives would protect. Along with the promise of lower council | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
taxes and yes I met a referendum on Europe. Whatever it takes, I will | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
deliver the referendum. Labour will not. UKIP can't. I will. I would not | :21:22. | :21:28. | |
be Prime Minister of a government unless we could carry out our pledge | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
of an in-out referendum. UKIP, he said, was all talk and no delivery. | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
UKIP, frankly I do not need to discredit Europe. -- discredit UKIP. | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
It was a message some of the workers he met here liked but not all. I do | :21:47. | :21:57. | |
not trust them. Him or them? The Conservatives. I have got to wait | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
and see if he delivers what he says. I thought it was positive. I am an | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
apprentice and I felt the benefits from having job security. At a theme | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
park just down the road, there was some support for the Conservatives, | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
but also doubt about just which way they were heading. David Cameron is | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
promising a referendum. Do you trust him to deliver on that? Note. Why | :22:25. | :22:32. | |
not estimate historical reasons. They have not materialised. That is | :22:33. | :22:40. | |
why you are going to vote UKIP? Yes. Do you trust David Cameron to | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
deliver on the referendum? Hopefully. Do you think he will | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
stick to what he says? I would like to think so. He needs to come out | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
with definite policies. I do not think a referendum will satisfy the | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
public. The Tories have said their poll ratings will rise when the | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
economy recovers. But many voters still seem cautious and they do not | :23:09. | :23:16. | |
want to get taken for a ride. And you can find details about the | :23:17. | :23:18. | |
election campaigns of other political parties, together with a | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
detailed guide to the BBC's election coverage if you go to | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
bbc.co.uk/news. Why do some people get sick while | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
others live to a healthy old age? That's what the world's biggest | :23:30. | :23:31. | |
body-scanning project getting under way near Manchester is trying to | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
work out. It's part of UK Biobank which is examining how our health is | :23:36. | :23:37. | |
affected by lifestyle, environment and genes. 100,000 volunteers will | :23:38. | :23:52. | |
undergo detailed scans. They are from half million adults aged | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
between 40 and 69 who've already supplied their DNA. Among the | :23:56. | :23:57. | |
diseases being studied are cancer, heart disease and dementia. Our | :23:58. | :24:00. | |
medical correspondent Fergus Walsh was the first person to be scanned | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
and joins us live from inside a freezer at the UK Biobank | :24:04. | :24:12. | |
headquarters in Stockport. Sophie, this freezer contains my DNA and | :24:13. | :24:19. | |
that of all 500,000 volunteers. Perfectly preserved at minus 80 | :24:20. | :24:28. | |
degrees. In addition to this huge genetic database, scientists have | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
detailed lifestyle information on volunteers and soon they will have | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
thousands of medical scans as well. Keep still. Heart, brain, bones, | :24:37. | :24:45. | |
even fat content. Every part of the body will be imaged for this | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
ambitious project. I am the first of 100,000 people who will be invited | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
to undergo the tests. The MRI scans will yield a huge amount of data. | :24:56. | :25:02. | |
The goal is clear. We will understand better the causes of a | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
wide range of different diseases. The brain scans may help us to | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
understand the causes of dementia and other types of cognitive | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
decline. Looking at the heart may give us an idea about why it is | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
certain people develop heart disease in the long-term, heart failure. UK | :25:18. | :25:24. | |
Biobank scientists have begun analysing the DNA from volunteers. | :25:25. | :25:27. | |
This will be cross-referenced with the scans and with information about | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
diet, fitness and health records and cognitive tests. The results should | :25:33. | :25:43. | |
give insights into many diseases. This woman hopes the research will | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
help explain why she got Alzheimer's disease at just 52. It affects her | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
short-term memory and she can get lost when out shopping. My father | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
had this before me. His lifestyle like mine, there was nothing wrong | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
with it. I cannot identify what caused it for him or me. We need to | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
identify if there are any common dominators which give us a clue as | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
to what may be the cause of this. The project is not a health check. | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
Volunteers will not see the scans. But if a potentially serious problem | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
like a tumour is spotted, that will be fed back. You can see the fluid | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
filled spaces... It could mean early diagnosis but also cause alarm. Some | :26:29. | :26:39. | |
Junor -- some tumours are not amenable to treatment. It can create | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
worry and a negative impact on travel and life insurance. UK | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
Biobank is an example of altruism. Volunteers know it is not their | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
health but that of future generations that will benefit from | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
this ground-breaking project. Bank holiday ahead. What is the | :26:58. | :26:59. | |
weather going to be we are going to it with high | :27:00. | :27:11. | |
pressure. But it will come under attack from rain bearing weather | :27:12. | :27:14. | |
systems from the Atlantic, particularly affecting the north and | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
west of the UK. The first of those is going to bring some cloud into | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
the far West, maybe a few spots of rain to Cornwall. But most places | :27:23. | :27:29. | |
are not just dry but clear and unusually cold for the time of year. | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
Colder in the countryside last night. In Highland Scotland minus | :27:34. | :27:40. | |
four. But sunspots in southern England may be as low as minus two. | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
A cold start to the weekend. A lot of sunshine from the word go. But | :27:46. | :27:51. | |
then this weather system from the Atlantic comes in, thickening the | :27:52. | :27:54. | |
cloud and bringing rain to Northern Ireland and west of Scotland in the | :27:55. | :27:57. | |
afternoon. Ahead of that, it stays dry. Sunny spells. In the sunshine, | :27:58. | :28:04. | |
it will feel warmer. Sunday, not as cold to start. But a lot of cloud | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
across the UK. For the northern part, outbreaks of rain. Still warm | :28:10. | :28:16. | |
sunny spells in the South. Some uncertainty about the bank all day. | :28:17. | :28:21. | |
How quickly will the weather system bring rain into the West? We need to | :28:22. | :28:26. | |
cater for increasing cloud in the West. There may be rain for Northern | :28:27. | :28:30. | |
Ireland and western Scotland. The best of Monday's whether more likely | :28:31. | :28:36. | |
for southern and eastern areas. Warmer too. Temperature is mounting | :28:37. | :28:40. | |
a recovery. Not just in the south-east, but parts of Scotland | :28:41. | :28:46. | |
could see 17, 18 degrees. We will keep you updated online. | :28:47. | :28:50. | |
That is all from | :28:51. | :28:51. |